Eyefinity vs Surrond

[dynamicruss]

All,

Please forgive me if glossed over this question in an earlier post. But I have not really been able to find a suitable answer to the question of...

For multi-monitor gaming, AMD Eyefinity or nVidia Surrond?

For the last few generations of multi-monitor gaming I have been using AMD GPU's coupled with Eyefinity (Initially 2x5870, presently 2x7870) running my 3xDell U2410's in portrait @ 3600 x 1200.

I am looking to upgrade my GPU, however with the recent release of the nVidia 900 series, I am currently in limbo as to whether I should go back nVidia or get a AMD290X. Having never tried nVidia "surround" I was hoping the community might shed some personal insight.

 

[KingFatty]

Do you currently use any of the AMD-exclusive features that Eyefinity offers?

Since you have the same three identical monitors, I bet you could switch to Nvidia without missing out on any features.

But do you ever plan to upgrade the center monitor to a larger size and/or resolution compared to the left/right monitors, it might be good to stick with AMD for the mixed-resolution support (it recently got additional updates that let you do additional options with the mixed mode that come in handy when you have different size/resolution displays).

 

[dynamicruss]

The only features that I use from the AMD CCC are for bezel compensation and monitor position correction in setting up the Eyefinity display (Similar features I presume exist with nVidia Surrond)

At this point in time, I do not plan to change out the center monitor.

 

[HurleyBird]

Eyefinity has more support for asymmetric modes, but to be honest mismatched monitors are pretty ghetto anyway, so I doubt many people care.

There's also the Eyefinity API which some games use, so a centred HUD may only work on AMD hardware if there is no fallback in place.

That said, I think Nvidia is ahead in terms a 3+1 configuration. In some games 3+1 with AMD would result in terrible HUD distortion to the point of making the game unplayable, one such example being Far Cry 3. I haven't ran into this issue with Nvidia Surround yet.