Kapow! ATI Radeon 5870 Card Has 2 GB, 10 Ports

[exfileme]

Imagine a PCI-e card that can output gaming goodness on 6 displays! Kapow!

Kapow! ATI Radeon 5870 Card Has 2 GB, 10 Ports : Read more

 

[paranoidmage]

We don't know at this point whether all 10 outputs can be used at the same time.

however the GPU and memory clock speeds have been altered to 850 MHz and 4,8000 MHz, respectively.

 

[JohnnyLucky]

Hmmmmm....Would it be for gaming, commercial applications, or watching ten different sporting events at the same time?

 

[AMDnoob]

I don't get it. It has 10 ports... but only 6 visible ones????????? Or do you mean you have two cards, one w/ 6 DisplayPorts and another card in Xfire w/ the standard DVI, HDMI, and w/e that other port is. This was not a very well defined article, I'm confused.

 

[uh_no]

and its not like we haven't known about the upcoming 6 display card for like 2 months now......

 

[scook9]

this was unclear to me.....are there 10 ports on a single PCB with 2 GB ram? The 2 pictures above show a single board with only 6 display ports and the other just looks like 2 5870's sitting on top of eachother...one eyefinity edition, one regular

 

[tweakbz]

Working on a multiscreen app, playing a game, watching a movie, watching 3 different games, and perhaps having a few pictures to look at.

 

[frozenlead]

Both pictures are of 5870's - there's only one GPU on the bottom picture, and the top picture is clearly two cards.

This is pretty sweet if you have $5000 for displays. But, with a memory clock of 48000 MHz...geez. lol.

 

[scorc25]

4,8000MHz? I hope that isn't a typo! XD

 

[rummy666]

4,8000 MHz? So 48.000 GHz!? That's awesome.

 

[matt87_50]

"come on down ladies and gentelmen and see our new 10 port graphics card! thats right, you heard correctly, thats 6 ports! 6 PORTS! thats 5 times as many as the standard 4 port card! so if your in the market for a gfx cards and 9 ports just isn't enough, this 6 port monster is for you!! the addition of 2GB of memory means memory speed has been reduced slightly to 48Ghz but don't let that stop you from enjoying up to 10 monitors connected to this 6 port card!!"

 

[AMDnoob]

[citation][nom]tweakbz[/nom]Working on a multiscreen app, playing a game, watching a movie, watching 3 different games, and perhaps having a few pictures to look at.[/citation]

if only humans were designed for that multi-tasking, lol. I don't even know how id use so many screens. well i guess some ppl need the real estate, but that's ALOT of screen.

 

[Gin Fushicho]

Thats a BIG card. I dont care how large your case and MOBO are, thats gonna take up a lot of space and kill a lot of options.

 

[megamanx00]

Well, considering that you can daisychain 6 Display Port displays with the normal 5870 I don't see what's so great about this one.

 

[JeanLuc]

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I don’t know what’s it like in North America at the moment but over here in the UK stores have been adding £40 premiums on top of the AMD’s original RRP of £299 so I dread to think how much a 2gb card is going to cost.

 

[presidenteody]

i can't wait for some 5870s to become available!

 

[Shadow703793]

[citation][nom]tweakbz[/nom]Working on a multiscreen app, playing a game, watching a movie, watching 3 different games, and perhaps having a few pictures to look at.[/citation]
Forget about playing games on 6 LCDs until they get rid of those AWFUL bezels of the LCD killing the view.

 

[buwish]

I don't think even I could come up with a use for 6 screens. Granted, I'd have to win the lotto or something to even comprehend 6 screens.

 

[surfer1337dude]

48ghz? thats one hell of a jump XD....hope its cheap enough for me too afford XD.....But I would love to just be able too afford this and six screens so I could do a better wrap-around setup

 

[xaira]

this is old news

 

[Guest]

Mother of god, 48ghz would be fantastic

 

[warlordsagan]

Proofreads are needed here badly sometimes. Thanks anyways for the article.

 

[Kelavarus]

[citation][nom]Shadow703793[/nom]Forget about playing games on 6 LCDs until they get rid of those AWFUL bezels of the LCD killing the view.[/citation]

Don't be lazy! DIY!

 

[socrates047]

suck it Nvidia...lol

 

[FSXFan]

It's nice to see a real dual slot design with the extra slot dedicated entirely to ventilation. I really didn't like the reference design with only half a slot vented.

I would rather see one made with four HDMI's instead since I don't think most people will be running 6 monitors anyway and I've only seen one (very overpriced) DisplayPort monitor so far. I'm not really sold on the DislpayPort tech yet anyway, seems kinda pointless when HDMI works fine.