Club 3D’s Radeon HD 7870 Eyefinity 6 Graphics Adapter

NVIDIA may have finally enabled its graphics cards to handle more than 2 monitors at a time, but AMD still has the advantage of experience in the field of multi-display setups. Club 3D's newest video card shows that well enough.

Club 3D has officially introduced a video card called Radeon HD 7870 Eyefinity 6 and equipped with the CoolStream High Performance Cooling Technology. The company claims this is the first Radeon HD 7000 series board to feature 6 mini DisplayPort connectors. This isn't any Eyefinity technology we're talking about either, but Eyefinity 2.0, the one with Stereo 3D support, universal bezel compensation and new display configurations. That's right, with the Club 3D Radeon HD 7870 Eyefinity 6, owners will be able to spread the display area across six panels, even if they aren't of the same type. The maximum resolution is Ultra HD 4096p (4,096 x 2,160 over DisplayPort, 4,096 x 3,112 over HDMI 1.4a, via dongle).

Of course, it is just as easy to hook up multiple panels to the card and use each for something specific. Playing a game on one or three screens while the others show a web browser, e-mails or whatever else is possible. As for performance, the graphics board operates on the PCI Express 3.0 interface and runs the Pitcairn graphics processing unit (GPU) at 1 GHz. On the same note, the VRAM (2 GB of GDDR5 memory) has a clock speed of 4,800 MHz and an interface of 256 bits. Finally, overclockers will be pleased to know that it is perfectly possible to force the GPU to 1.1 GHz or higher.

Unfortunately, the press release and official website entry page don't say how much money buyers will be expected to pay for the card, whenever it happens to reach stores. The product page did, however, say that Club 3D Radeon HD 7870 Eyefinity 6 will not sell with an HDMI dongle. To get the aforementioned resolution, one will have to be acquired separately.

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