Except from its DirectX 11 support AMD's new Radeon HD 5800 series also has its Eyefinity support to fall back on. With support for at least three monitors with all cards of the Evergreen family it offers a function that competitor NVIDIA can't match. In our review of Radeon HD 5870 we informed you about a coming card that would take Eyefinity to another level. Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity6 Edition ships with six mini-DisplayPort outputs supporting no less than six monitors. The card has now been caught on camera and partial specifications confirmed.
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity6 Edition will first of all use the same clock frequencies as HD 5870, in other word 850MHz GPU clock frequency and 4800MHz memory clock frequency. The memory buffer will double though, up to 2048MB GDDR5 memory to help the graphics circuit supply all six monitors with 2560x1600 pixels each.
Except from the larger RAM buffer the power supply of the card has been upgraded. One of the two 6-pin molex connectors have been swapped for a more powerful 8-pin connector.
At PCPOP they have published pictures of the new card, named Radeon HD 5870 6DP in the report, so the final name may not have been set yet (though it should still remain part of the 5800 series and not 5900).
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Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity6 Edition pictured
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