Posted on 09/10/2009 4:55:05 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Wanna see what 24.5 million pixels looks like?
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That's six Dell 30" displays, each with an individual resolution of 2560 x 1600. The game is World of Warcraft and the man crouched in front of the setup is Carrell Killebrew, his name may sound familiar.
Driving all of this is AMD's next-generation GPU, which will be announced later this month. I didn't leave out any letters, there's a single GPU driving all of these panels. The actual resolution being rendered at is 7680 x 3200; WoW got over 80 fps with the details maxed. This is the successor to the RV770. We can't talk specs but at today's AMD press conference two details are public: 2.15 billion transistors and over 2.5 TFLOPs of performance. As expected, but nice to know regardless.
The technology being demonstrated here is called Eyefinity and it actually all started in notebooks.
DisplayPort is gaining popularity. It's a very simple interface and you can expect to see mini-DisplayPort on notebooks and desktops alike in the very near future. Apple was the first to embrace it but others will follow.
The OEMs asked AMD for six possible outputs for DisplayPort from their notebook GPUs: up to two internally for notebook panels, up to two externally for conncetors on the side of the notebook and up to two for use via a docking station. In order to fulfill these needs AMD had to build in 6 lanes of DisplayPort outputs into its GPUs, driven by a single display engine. A single display engine could drive any two outputs, similar to how graphics cards work today.
(Excerpt) Read more at anandtech.com ...
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WANTONE
The big black bars across kind of ruin the immersion
I agree, but that will be easy to fix. I want this setup...
Apparently they are working with a manufacturer to address that....according to the article.
Flight simulator maybe?
Wow ...
Been done
But yea that's multiple monitors and cards to drive em.
cheaper to buy a 46” TV and use that for one big ass warcraft display.
Note 200 amp breaker panel in background. Just how many amps are needed to drive this setup?
According to the way I read the article this is one PC driving this.
Yes, but that would be a single display at a max display of like 1920 X 1080, as opposed to 6 displays running at 2560 x 1600, for a aggregate display of 7680 x 3200. Now they just need a single monitor able to display that resolution that’s a good size.
More detail on this thread.
ATI Eyefinity review - Now you can run six monitors in HD from a single graphics card
Any action type games obviously could be drastically enhance using system as described here. I am still impressed by these emerging technologies. To think things have come to past that some dreamed about ten, twenty, and longer years back.
Thanks E. I’ll give it a quick read. I tried to get some sleep so that I could get up at 3:30AM tommorow. Today had to be in at 5AM after sleepless night yesterday. I am shot, and will try to get back in bed for a few hopefully hours of sleep.
Yummy.
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