4k Eyefinity

Somehow I missed this article about AMD's booth at CES, that showed off an AMD Radeon 7970 hooked up to a 4k monitor. The article outlines that a 4k monitor requires two DP inputs to support the full resolution and bandwidth. This got me thinking...

Theoretically, with an Eyefinity6 card you could drive three 4k displays in Eyefinity - each with two connections. I'm sure frame rates would blow chunks in all but the simplest games, however it's cool to think the groundwork for the technology might already be laid. A single 4k display at 4096x2160 has 8.8M pixels. This is even more than a 1080p Eyefinity setup (which has 6.2M pixels), but less than a 5x1 1080p Eyefinity setup (which has 10.4M pixels).

It may take a single 3GB 7970 to drive a single 4k display, so maybe three in Tri-Fire could push the 26.5M pixels of a 4k Eyefinity setup? I think I'll have to ask AMD about this...

Even if 4k Eyefinity is a ways off (or at least if the horsepower to push 4k Eyefinity is a ways off), 4k displays will be hitting the PC market before long. Looks like we'll have to add a new layer of testing to our widescreen certification sooner rather than later.