AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series Cards Support Up To Six Monitors and Blu-ray 3D
Another set of leaked AIB slides have leaked out over at Chiphell and they reveal some very interesting details about a new feature on the upcoming Radeon HD 6000 series cards. It appears that the rumor from months ago was true and that both Barts and Cayman video cards will have support for up to six displays!
It looks like you can daisy three monitors per each of the mini DisplayPort 1.2 outputs on the cards.
The leaked photo of the XFX Radeon HD 6870 confirms this card has the connections on it, so this looks pretty solid. It also looks like Blu-ray 3D support is also finally coming to AMD video cards for the very first time.
The secret behind it is the MultiStream feature of DisplayPort 1.2, that has double the data-rate of DisplayPort 1.1. In addition to the higher data-rate, DP 1.2 also brings support for higher resolution support and support for stereoscopic 3D. The new HD 6000 will be able to support up to six DisplayPort displays by “daisy chaining” them to two Displayport outputs. The best part for AMD is that they can use Evergreen (Eyefinity 6) reference boards for this one since Barts and Cypress are pin compatible. The rest of the outputs include HDMI 1.4 output for 3D video (Blu-ray 3D) support, and two dual-link DVI-I outputs. The slides also reveal that we can expect increased performance in every segment and AMD’s UVD 3.0 video processing engine for GPU acceleration.
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