ATI Radeon 5870 Card Has 2 GB, 6 Ports
Imagine a PCI-e card that can output gaming goodness on 6 displays! Kapow!
After moving into a new office and watching interference slowly wave up and down the two LCD monitors (wasn't there before), the first thing that came to mind was, "man there needs to be a new graphics card in this rig." As if reading those very thoughts, Softpedia prints up an article featuring an ATI Radeon HD 5870 graphics card with 2 GB of GDDR5 memory and... get this... 6 DisplayPort ports!
Yep, that's right. Consumers can hook up six DisplayPort displays, making one heck of a desktop that could fill an entire wall thanks to the company's ATI Eyefinity technology. Apparently, the card uses the same dual-slot cooling solution as the reference HD 5870 model too, with the six display ports mounted just under the card's cooler exhaust. 
Softpedia also reports that the new model has acquired an 8-pin and 6-pin PCI-e power connector setup. It also sports 1,600 Stream processors as seen with the HD 5870, however the GPU and memory clock speeds have been altered to 850 MHz and 4,8000 MHz, respectively.
Unfortunately, as of this writing, the new model isn't exactly official, nor is there any mention of availability or pricing. We're crossing our fingers that it ships soon, just in time for the long hours of PC gaming during the holidays. Like Gollum says in the LOTR trilogy, we's wants its, my precious.
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Hmmmmm....Would it be for gaming, commercial applications, or watching ten different sporting events at the same time?
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.
and its not like we haven't known about the upcoming 6 display card for like 2 months now......
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
Working on a multiscreen app, playing a game, watching a movie, watching 3 different games, and perhaps having a few pictures to look at.
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.
4,8000MHz? I hope that isn't a typo! XD
4,8000 MHz? So 48.000 GHz!? That's awesome.
"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!!"
Working on a multiscreen app, playing a game, watching a movie, watching 3 different games, and perhaps having a few pictures to look at.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
i can't wait for some 5870s to become available!
Working on a multiscreen app, playing a game, watching a movie, watching 3 different games, and perhaps having a few pictures to look at.
Forget about playing games on 6 LCDs until they get rid of those AWFUL bezels of the LCD killing the view.
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.
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
this is old news
Mother of god, 48ghz would be fantastic
Proofreads are needed here badly sometimes. Thanks anyways for the article.
Forget about playing games on 6 LCDs until they get rid of those AWFUL bezels of the LCD killing the view.
Don't be lazy! DIY!
suck it Nvidia...lol
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.
FSXFan,
There are adapters which allow you to turn display port into DVI outputs... you don't need to have all new monitors that support display port. This was shown in the ATI press release I saw over on HardOCP.com awhile back. they had short white dongles coming out of the card and going to the monitors port.
FSXFan,
There are adapters which allow you to turn display port into DVI outputs... you don't need to have all new monitors that support display port. This was shown in the ATI press release I saw over on HardOCP.com awhile back. they had short white dongles coming out of the card and going to the monitors port.
I think that Kevin has lost the plot.... This isn't news, it is 'olds'.
To clear up some confusion, this is old news. The card comes with at least 2 adapters to connect DVI or HDMI to the display ports.
The bezels do get in the way of enjoying the view in a game, but odd numbers in the right setup can work such as 3 monitors rotated vertically. This gets the bezel lines out of your direct line of sight.
The point of multiple monitors is 6 monitors will have a much higher resolution than 1 large monitor.
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Already running 3 Dell 2408wfp's.... on 2 4870's w 1gb ram.... time for 2 5870's with 2gb ram and 3 more monitors.... imagine... 12 available ports between 2 video cards... all running 24 inch lcd's..... humm..... maybe leave it at 3 24 inch lcd's, 3 30 inch lcd's and 6 1080p projectors.......... that would be nice.... 6 movies on the projectors at once and then apps on the lcd's.....
I wonder if any new mech or tank games, or even Flight Sim X games will come out with the your backside showing, like a true 360 degree view of the machine you are in. That would also be great for games like Fallout and crysis. Eyeinfinity 360.....