next gen AMD GPU - 6 monitors on one card at full resolution

[eagl]

Please oh please ask AMD to send you guys some development hardware and any required SDK...  6 monitors at full resolution with full DX11 acceleration, on one card.  Put 4 cards in one system and you get 24 fully accelerated monitors.

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3635

This is just PERFECT for flightsims.  6 monitors is probably enough for a 1/3 dome with projectors, or a 180 deg horizontal view using 5 monitors and the 6th monitor sitting up above the center monitor for the all-important fwd-up view.  Go with 4 cards and you've easily got a full dome.  Yea it might be CPU limited but intel is quite busy working on that so no worries there.

[Skuzzy]

Seems it is all handled transparently to the application, thus it should just work.

[eagl]

Yea, but...  Can AH handle 5 monitors across in a row plus one monitor sitting above the center monitor?  The viewable area would not be a rectangle.  Wouldn't the game need to know that it needs to render just the inverted "T"?

[hitech]

no eagl: It is still the same, just simply choose a Field of view you wish and resolution, nothing is different as far as AH is concerned it is sill just 1 big monitor.

HiTech

[eagl]

Thanks for the reply HT.  That would look amazing...  I doubt it'll make it to market in time for the convention this year though.  The 3-monitor cards should be out soon but the 6 monitor cards won't be out until the end of the year.

Although...  multiple 3-monitor cards can be matched to make larger arrays...  That might be possible by the con date.  I wish I could attend this year but I don't think I can make it