Everyone who has kept up with recent ATI graphics cards know about the Eyefinity technology that allows three monitors to be connected as one side-by-side. Now lets welcome the new Eyefinity6 where one card supports up to 6 monitors in various setups.

Video benchmarking by Guru3D of Resident Evil 5 with two HD 5870 Eyefinity6 in crossfire:


The outer frame of monitors makes the screens look split during games, and the video below (Tom’s Hardware) shows demonstrations of racing games and a split screen usage.

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity6

Types of setups

Specs from ATI:

ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition Graphics Feature Summary

* 2.15 billion 40nm transistors
* TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
o 1600 Stream Processing Units
o 80 Texture Units
o 128 Z/Stencil ROP Units
o 32 Color ROP Units
* GDDR5 interface with 153.6 GB/sec of memory bandwidth
* PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface
* DirectX® 11 support
o Shader Model 5.0
o DirectCompute 11
o Programmable hardware tessellation unit
o Accelerated multi-threading
o HDR texture compression
o Order-independent transparency
* OpenGL 3.2 support
* Image quality enhancement technology
o Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes
o Adaptive anti-aliasing
o 16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering
o 128-bit floating point HDR rendering
* ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology1
o Six independent display controllers
+ Drive up to six displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays
o Display grouping1
+ Combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display2
o Bezel Compensation3
* ATI Stream acceleration technology
o OpenCL 1.0 compliant4
o DirectCompute 11
o Double precision floating point processing support
o Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling5,6
+ Native support for common video encoding instructions
* ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology7
o Dual, triple, and quad GPU scaling
o Dual-channel bridge interconnect
* ATI Avivo HD Video & Display technology8
o UVD 2 dedicated video playback accelerator
o Advanced post-processing and scaling9
o Dynamic contrast enhancement and color correction
o Brighter whites processing (blue stretch)
o Independent video gamma control
o Dynamic video range control
o Support for H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2 and Adobe Flash10
o Dual-stream 1080p playback support11,12
o DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
o Integrated dual-link DVI output with HDCP13
+ Max resolution: 2560×160014
o Integrated DisplayPort output
+ Max resolution: 2560×160014
o Integrated HDMI 1.3 output with Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support, and high bit-rate audio
+ Max resolution: 1920×120014
o Integrated VGA output
+ Max resolution: 2048×153614
o 3D stereoscopic display/glasses support15
o Integrated HD audio controller
+ Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI with no additional cables required
+ Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio formats
* ATI PowerPlay™ power management technology8
o Dynamic power management with low power idle state
o Ultra-low power state support for multi-GPU configurations
* Certified drivers for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP

Speeds & Feeds

* Engine clock speed: 850 MHz
* Processing power (single precision): 2.72 TeraFLOPS
* Processing power (double precision): 544 GigaFLOPS
* Polygon throughput: 850M polygons/sec
* Data fetch rate (32-bit): 272 billion fetches/sec
* Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 68 Gigatexels/sec
* Pixel fill rate: 27.2 Gigapixels/sec
* Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 108.8 Gigasamples/sec
* Memory clock speed: 1.2 GHz
* Memory data rate: 4.8 Gbps
* Memory bandwidth: 153.6 GB/sec
* Maximum board power: 188 Watts
* Idle board power: 27 Watts