A dozen displays? PowerColor has the answer (and more?)

by Steve Kerrison on 3 June 2010, 15:58

Tags: PowerColor Radeon HD 5970 LCS, PowerColor (6150.TWO)

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Here we have PowerColor's Radeon HD 5970 "12" edition, sporting - you guessed it - twelve display ports. The additional set of ports are provided via a daughterboard that attaches to the rear of the card. The card therefore takes up 3 expansion slots, but if you've got room for twelve displays you've probably got room for a big case. Obviously there aren't many consumer applications for this besides e-peen enlargement, but PowerColor reckons there will be professional interest in the solution.

Not happy with that though, we asked PowerColor to come up with something special, just for HEXUS. After a bit of rummaging around, PowerColor presented us with this, the 5970 PT:



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so how much would 2 of these cost?

and woah, if you used the full capacity of 2 of these of 36 3840x2160 screens you'd have a 298.6MP display.

imagine playing crysis at almost 300MP…
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so how much would 2 of these cost?

and woah, if you used the full capacity of 2 of these of 36 3840x2160 screens you'd have a 298.6MP display.

imagine playing crysis at almost 300MP…

you mean slideshow…
lol this card struggles with Crysis on 3 screens. 36!
maybe itll play doom?
18 is getting a bit silly. Cool, though. Soon, bigger motherboards (and E-EATX cases) (and desks, for the monitors) might be needed.