I’m going to be really blunt here when I say that most people, and by most I mean probably 95%+ don’t give a crap that the Eyefinity6 card supports six monitors. Most people want the Eyefinity6 card for one reason and one reason only.

Because it carries 2GB of GDDR5.

Do we need to double the RAM on the HD 5870? I don’t know to be honest, come launch day though I’ll have an opinion and you’ll be able to read it in a review on the model. If we need it or not though doesn’t really matter. People buy 1GB HD 5450s; why on earth wouldn’t people buy 2GB HD 5870s.

I only really bring this up for one reason; I emailed ATI the other day just chasing up some info on the model, trying to confirm the NDA date and what not. Anyway this is a bit of the email I got back:

“By the way, do you have the ability to test one of these i.e. 6 DisplayPort monitors or adapters?”

Part of my reply in regards to that statement was:

“No offence but most people don’t give a crap about the 6-DP connectors they just want the 2GB of memory ”

I have DisplayPort monitors so that’s not an issue but the thing is most people don’t really care about the connectors, they care about the memory. I actually want one of these cards for myself and will probably move my HD 5970 over to one simply because I want to have my U2410s all running of DP instead of two DVI and one DP. It’ll depend on performance though and its ability to game at 5760 x 1200.

I’m not saying that no one cares about the 6 DP ports; I’m just saying that majority of people don’t. Saying that though the models going to be popular for the boost in GDDR5. Few people are going to test these cards with six monitors; this shouldn’t be a reason to not push it out there though because honestly at the end of it all let’s not kid ourselves; we want 2GB of GDDR5 more then we want 6 DP connectors.