ATI Eyefinity on 5870

[TantrumusMaximus]

I'm really curious about how good this really feature really is.... what I'm reading is that it blows away the Matrox solution.

I've posted here before about wanting the 3 monitor setup with the Matrox Triplehead2go but that never came to be due to the fact I couldn't justify the cash for the breakout box & monitors too... there was always something more important to spend my free cash on. But now that it's included in ATI's boards and from what I'm reading "better" the excitement about possibly doing it is back. I'm thinking about ebaying my 295, and taking my Vizio 26" back to Costco.

I found some different articles that show it in action but none of them actually post the impact it has on framerates. Wouldn't you think this would be common sense for reviewers? Guru3d had a real indepth 5870 review but then nothing on a triple monitor setup. PCMark had a full featured article on it and yet again no benches.

All I found was that right now you can't use 2 GPUs and Eyefinity, yes it obviously hits your framerates, and the display port needs to be used as one of the 3 outputs.

I'm going on a limb here and going to say the most common triple monitor setup would be 3x 22" lcd: 5040x3150, how about some benches???

 

[gbeirn]

It would actually be 5040x1050 since the vertical resolution doesn't add unless you had a 3x2 setup of 6 monitors. Either way it's still cool technology and I wouldn't mind seeing benchmarks with that setup too!

 

[aka1nas]

I'm really looking forward to seeing a performance comparison between it and SoftTH. SoftTH is still a lot more flexible (it can account for bezels, differing screen sizes, compatability options, and only is active when you launch a game that has been set up with it), but it takes a large performance hit and can only be rendered on a single card.

 

[TantrumusMaximus]

Eyefinity currently has the same single card limitation when using 3 monitors. Apparently the drivers are "said" to being developed to support crossfire configs for 3 monitors due to the 5870X2 version coming out ~xmas.

LOL yeah I always screw that up and multiply the vertical res!

 

[Chaotic42]

If they can really get this working well, I will buy a 5000 series card. Even with all of the problems I've had with my 4870x2, having just one video card for my monitors will be nice.

 

[Elias824]

Well I tried it on my 5870 with a 2 monitors. To be honest is was terrible, well for starts I really should have used 3 monitors, but even if you do I cant imagine getting around the breaks in the screens. I dont know what it was but the everything seemd like it was almost curved, and it made me abit dizzy to look at. That on top of the resolution it had me using was pretty terrible, dont remember what it was off the top of my head. Well im sure some of you will have better luck with a better setup but ill I can say is I didnt really care to much about it.

 

[TurtleCrusher]

5040x1050 would be completely amazing for FPS and racing games.

 

[jlee]

Originally posted by: Elias824
Well I tried it on my 5870 with a 2 monitors. To be honest is was terrible, well for starts I really should have used 3 monitors, but even if you do I cant imagine getting around the breaks in the screens. I dont know what it was but the everything seemd like it was almost curved, and it made me abit dizzy to look at. That on top of the resolution it had me using was pretty terrible, dont remember what it was off the top of my head. Well im sure some of you will have better luck with a better setup but ill I can say is I didnt really care to much about it.

I wouldn't want to run a game with two monitors...definitely not a natural setup.

 

[lavaheadache]

Originally posted by: Scholzpdx
5040x1050 would be completely amazing for FPS and racing games.

it is. For now I've only used softTH but I plan on getting an hd5870 in a little bit when the price comes down and there are 2 gb cards

and to the comment about the break in the screens. It is not even noticible as long as long as you can account for the bezels in software. If the pc "knows" there is a bezel there and you can can give it a size and allot for it, it just like looking through a paned window. Now if you cant set a "bezel area" I find it to be really annoying because the image will not accuratly move across the monitors

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: JLee

Originally posted by: Elias824
Well I tried it on my 5870 with a 2 monitors. To be honest is was terrible, well for starts I really should have used 3 monitors, but even if you do I cant imagine getting around the breaks in the screens. I dont know what it was but the everything seemd like it was almost curved, and it made me abit dizzy to look at. That on top of the resolution it had me using was pretty terrible, dont remember what it was off the top of my head. Well im sure some of you will have better luck with a better setup but ill I can say is I didnt really care to much about it.

I wouldn't want to run a game with two monitors...definitely not a natural setup.

It works for RTS games (and I don't mean SupCom), since in most RTS games there is nothing special in the middle of the screen, but for most other things it's not great.

 

[Elias824]

Well the problem with 2 is that the center of the screen is in between your 2 moniters, so if your trying to move a direction you have to be pointing towards the big gap. I tried playing empire total war and its super hard to move around. True RTS games may not be as bad, but you still get things like menus come up between your two screens.

 

[Anubis]

the only way i see this working or a similar tech is if things like these actually become a cheap reality

http://www.seamlessdisplay.com/products_radius320.htm

 

[RNViper]

Hello people

with the Eyefinity test here, a TFT with Nativ Dsiplayport was used there?