What are the latest flagship cards really capable of?

jn77

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I will admit that I like ATI over Nvidia due to some bad experiences in the past, but looking at both companies latest "flag ship cards" with dual GPU's; are they anything special?

To elaborate, I do photo and video editing and I am following the 4k and 8k displays as they get cheaper.... (less than $4000 US for a 4k display now).

Can any of the current video cards run 4 or 6 30 inch displays at one time @ 4k or 8k resolution?

I would venture to say "no" and if they can't do that, then gaming at 4k or 8k on multiple monitors really isn't ready yet.

So what can the cards really do that is special?

(My needs, which may not be someone elses) is a GPU/Card that will run 4-6 displays @ 4k and/or 8k resolutions and not blink.

For video work and games, it will need to support 60 or 120 frames per second at those resolutions also.

I am also looking to upgrade my old cards and the 7990 looks nice, but it pretty much can't meet my needs and they are close to $1000 each (+/-).
 
There is a $1500 4k tv coming around. I forget where I saw it though... You may be able to run eyefinity 4k, can't say for sure, but you will not get playable framerates with any new game. The 7990 will do well at 5760x1080, not really much more. There is not really a demand for anything higher right now, so no cards that powerful are available. 4k is just coming around so it will be awhile until people have them and the gpus catch up, just like when 1080p was emerging.
 
Multiple Titan's could run an array of 4k monitors, most likely and game, but at lower settings. However, 4k monitors still cannot go past 30hz.

The problem you present about nothing being able to do something special, is you are talking about doing something 12 times larger in size than what games are designed around. Games could be designed around working on 3x 4k screens and work well, but 99.999% of their player base will not have that kind of setup, so they build them around what others actually use.

It is also quite likely that Windows won't even allow that large of a resolution, but memory size wise, Titan could do it, just at lower settings.
 
I find that two 2nd tier cards will usually outperform the top tier dual GPU card

For video editing, I'd rethinking the AMD choice as you can't currently use CUDA acceleration w/o an nVidia card. However, CS7 is supposed to open the door for AMD acceleration w/ CS thru Open CL.