Jaw-Dropping AMD 'Eyefinity' Powers 24 Monitors
When AMD's new Radeon HD cards launch in a few weeks, the showstopper will be a technology the company calls Eyefinity, which can power up to six monitors on a single graphics card.
At a press event outlining AMD's Vision strategy, AMD showed off a jaw-dropping 24 30-inch monitors, all powered by a single PC with four graphics cards. AMD's software combined the images, producing a single 7680-by- 3200 image using the six cards, and what apparently was a 30,720-by-12,800 image spread over a whopping twenty-four monitors.
Old-timers may remember Matrox Graphics, which currently sells kits to do what AMD promises to do natively. As Jason Cross noted last night, a customer is going to be much less likely to buy from Matrox versus AMD, which actively supports its products with driver updates almost every week.
