14 DAY TRIAL // Advanced Micro Devices recently allowed for a video to be shot of its latest single-card Eyefinity configuration, one that is known more or less simply as the landscape mode.
Advanced Micro Devices may not be doing too stupendously on the CPU front, even though it did, a few days ago, enter the Guinness book of records for the fastest ever CPU.
The situation on the video card market is quite different, however, as the Sunnyvale, California-based company has been giving NVIDIA a run for its money lately, and this is not just because of Fusion.
While the APUs (accelerated processing units) with integrated graphics did, indeed, make entry-level and even some mainstream video cards obsolete, AMD has been putting on a good show on the high-end segment as well.
One of the things that NVIDIA doesn't really have is something like the AMD Eyefinity technology.
Though two GeForce cards in SLI can handle multi-monitor setups, even in 3D, single-card multi-panel capabilities are something AMD came up with quite a bit earlier.
Apparently, the company is still refining the technology, and this was made more than clear by a certain video that the folks over at Engadget were able to shoot.
Eyefinity normally allows the image to be spread across three monitors, or six in case of Eyefinity 6.
What AMD now showed is a so-called landscape Eyefinity configuration, composed of five screens placed side by side.
This 5 x 1 landscape setup was possible by connecting four monitors to a Radeon HD 6990 graphics card via mini-DisplayPort, with the fifth plugged into the DVI.
The system used for the demo relied on an 8-core AMD FX central processing unit (powered by the Bulldozer architecture).
The demonstration involved the game Dirt 3 and was performed at the AMD's Fusion Zone at the 2011 edition of IDF (Intel Developer Forum).