Get ready to start hearing about AMD Radeon and AMD FirePro, and soon after:AMD Vision.
Now we'll just see what Nvidia might be preparing to tackle this new challenge, as CPU/GPU combos become increasingly popular and "good enough" for the majority of people and applications...Can Nvidia afford to be left with the "high-end" market alone?
If AMD is having a hard time keeping up with Intel in the CPU field, ATI on the other hand is keeping Nvidia well in check. And now AMD/ATI is about to introduce Eyefinity- which might be the very first step to bring multi-monitor systems to the masses.
Just like many gamers now have SLI/Crossfire setups in their computers, lots of them don't have a problem having several monitors. But, until now, multimonitor gaming isn't easy, monitors are treated as separate entities - but with AMD/ATI's Eyefinity you can now group a bunch of monitors as if it was a single one.
Considering how LCD prices increase with size, I'm sure there are a lot of people out there that would prefer spending the same amount of money in six 24" LCDs than in a single 30" monitor!
Though not everyone will have the space to do something like this:
And while the the bezel around the screen is kind of annoying, even that can be minimized if you opt to buy thin-bezel LCDs, like these ones from Samsung.
In one of the demos, a single card with a single GPU was able to run the GRID racing game in six 30" monitores, at 7680 x 3200 - which is s sign of things to come.
If you love wide-screen, high-resolution gaming... Eyefinity might be just what you were waiting for!
AMD/ATI is not willing to let Nvidia take all the credit for the next next-generation 3D graphics. And to that effect, they've shown their Cinema 2.0 initiative - which, as they say: "you won't just play movies, you'll play in them."
And if their demos, with a single PC with a single graphics card with two of their latest and greatest GPUs, the RV770, are to be trusted... this is indeed quite close to real time photo-realism graphics.
