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is it actually possible to have ATis eyefinity (9 monitors) still? with 4k monitors?

Was it ever possible to have eyefinity with 9 monitors?

And I doubt 9 x 4K in eyefinity is doable at medium settings with decent frame rates.

9 x (3840 x 2160) = 74,649,600 pixels = 75 MegaPixels.
(By the way, 1080p = 2 MegaPixels)

Good luck running that with Quad 290x or Quad Titan Black.
 
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I thought it was possible with mst hub....because DP can be daisy chained......but that would be one hell of a daisy chain
 
No. Eyefinity is limited to 6 screens.

The W9100 has the connectivity to attach 6x4k monitors, but they will be limited to 30Hz. 3x4k is the most that can be run @ 60Hz. AMD has a great deal going on right now for the W9100. Buy one and they'll rebate 1/2 the price back to you, up to $2K. Right now Newegg has the W9100 for $3500, which means you end up paying $1750. A total steal for that particular card if you can make use of a Firepro card.
http://semiaccurate.com/2014/06/05/amd-goes-win-firepro/
 
3D - I was right 🙂

If it's just 9 displays then it's really simple.
Option # 1
A single Eyefinity 6 card with 3 monitors connectors directly to the mini display ports.
2x 1.2 MST capable adapters hooking up 3 monitors each which gives a total of 6
6+3=9 monitor setup.

Option #2
Grab 2x Eyefinity 6 card and plug 9 monitors directly into the mini displayports.
And for them adapters, make sure they're active not passive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
I think that footnote is only for CrossFire setup or AMD eyefinity FAQ is outdated.

though its a bit confusing as I remember the demo where AMD had 36 screens or 32 screens to 4 eyefinity 6 cards.....
 
Isn't a single DP link limited to a total of 4k at 60hz? So you can't split it 3 ways only 2 ways if you want to achieve 30hz?
 
When you're saying nine are you saying

[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

or

[1][2][3]
[4][5][6]
[7][8][9]

Either way I would say start w/ 3, or if you really want to go crazy 5 (for the first option) or 6 (for the second option).

I've never heard of going past 6 tbh.
 
id like to see a 9 4K monitors side by side...

Your entire wall would be monitors.

Also i think ur forgetting the 4K monitors which do 60hz require dual inputs.
So that means a Xfire machine which can handle 6 monitors could only handle 3 x 4K.
 
No matter 6 or 9, dont plan on gaming. Buy 1 or 3 LARGE 4k monitors and be done with it. Still going to need a ton of GPU's
 
AMD GPUs only have 6 display controllers. For current multi-tile 4K monitors, two of those display controllers are consumed per GPU. Which is why you can only have 3 4K@60Hz monitors.

However the new generation single-tile monitors should only consume one display controller, allowing you to have 6 monitors. But these are so new that I don't think such a setup has been sufficiently tested yet.

Either way you top out at 6 due to the number of display controllers. For more than 6 you would need multiple (discrete) video cards. The 295X2 doesn't count because all outputs are driven by a single GPU.
 
Keep in mind that you can use 5-6 GPUs at the same time in certain AMD/ATi drivers.

So you could say do 6x 290 to display to 6x 4k 60hz at the same time.
 
On the previous cards a lot of people get tearing and vsync didn't work because the cards were not capable of 3x 1080p in raw pixel clock performance so it was simulated with the impacts of tearing.

I know that AMD has improved the situation with the third monitor on the 290 but what is the new limit? I suspect strongly 3x2160p will exceed it and have similar issues but does anyone know what the genuine hardware limit is now? Its kind of important to know it if going above 1080p resolutions.
 
BrightCandle said:
On the previous cards a lot of people get tearing and vsync didn't work because the cards were not capable of 3x 1080p in raw pixel clock performance so it was simulated with the impacts of tearing.

I know that AMD has improved the situation with the third monitor on the 290 but what is the new limit? I suspect strongly 3x2160p will exceed it and have similar issues but does anyone know what the genuine hardware limit is now? Its kind of important to know it if going above 1080p resolutions.
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According to the W9100 press release it can do 3x4K @ 60Hz, 6x4K @ 30Hz. The reason for that is every other DP is actually running through an MST "in parallel" (I'm not sure if that is technically the correct term, but it explains for visualization purposes.) with another DP.
 
3DVagabond said:
Eyefinity though, which is what the OP inquired about, runs off of one card.
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Also bear in mind that Eyefinity is software that is currently hardware limited.

As soon as ATI makes cards with more than 6 display controllers per card or display controllers capable of higher than current resolution, Eyefinity can keep up. 😉
 
Micrornd said:
Also bear in mind that Eyefinity is software that is currently hardware limited.

As soon as ATI makes cards with more than 6 display controllers per card or display controllers capable of higher than current resolution, Eyefinity can keep up. 😉
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It is hardware limited, but AMD needs to believe that more than 6 screens is a large enough market to warrant the cost of supporting it. There's no way that they could make money off of the consumer market. Too niche.

tommo123 said:
is there a reason you can't use 2+ cards for their ports?
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It's just the way Crossfire works. All of the displays are connected to one card. Even if you could use multiple cards it doesn't mean you'd be able to go go more than 6 screens. SLI uses outputs from multiple cards but is still limited to 3 monitor surround + 1 more monitor as a separate desktop. So, 4 monitors in total whether you hook them all to one card or four.
 
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