ATI-Eyefinity posts

For the past several months, AMD's ATI unit has been promoting Eyefinity, a way to support three monitors on one PC graphics card in order to have more immersive PC gaming visuals. Now its biggest rival Nvidia has officially announced its answer to Eyefinity with 3D Vision Surround. As the name implies the new technology will allow graphics cards that support Nvidia GeForce 400 family of chips to support running three monitors on one card while also supporting 3D visuals (with the right monitors and glasses of course). Eyefinity currently doesn't support 3D gaming with its setup.

You can check out this PDF file to see which PC games support 3D Vision Surround which is only available for Windows 7 users (sorry Vista and XP owners). In tandem with this hardware-related launch Nvidia has also released new beta drivers for their GeForce cards that enable the 3D Vision Surround support in Windows 7. You can get the 258.69 version beta drivers in Windows 7/Vista and 64-bit Windows 7/Vista flavors.

[Via Blue's News]

They have been teasing us for some time but today AMD announced their first fully supported DirectX11 graphics card. The AMD RadeonHD 5800 series of graphics chips have up to up to 2.72 TeraFLOPS of compute power on just one card. It also has support for the recently announced ATI Eyefinity technology that will allow up to six monitors to be run on just one graphics card.

AMD will release two Radeon HD 5800 graphics cards at first. One is the ATI Radeon HD 5870 and the other is the ATI Radeon HD 5850. Both will come with 1 GB of memory. The Radeon HD 5870 card is now available from several different graphics card companies with a price of $379.99