Eyefinity Gets Closer to the Holodeck

[Dave Baumann]

http://gizmodo.com/reality-deck/

Stony Brooke university is using a total of 72 FirePRO V9800's (Cayman) to light up a total of 416 panels oriented all around a room.

 

[Tahir2]

Impressive, just wish the bezels were not so frackin huuuuuge. Did AOC screwed them too?

 

[Squilliam]

They are Samsung 1440P panels. I guess once they get their hands on OLED the whole display will be seamless.

The power consumption of that setup must be ginormous. However give it a few process shrinks and I bet that the lovely AMD XD 3800s on a 11nm process will do it in less than a quarter of the power.

 

[mczak]

http://gizmodo.com/reality-deck/

Stony Brooke university is using a total of 72 FirePRO V9800's (Cayman) to light up a total of 416 panels oriented all around a room.

Since when are FirePro V9800 Cayman? Aren't they still Cypress or do you do sleazy renaming nowadays too with FirePro cards .

The power consumption of that setup must be ginormous. However give it a few process shrinks and I bet that the lovely AMD XD 3800s on a 11nm process will do it in less than a quarter of the power.

The monitors are drawing more power than the graphic cards anyway so shrinks won't do that much (unless you shrink the monitors...). Though it doesn't say what monitors those are, not even size but I guess 27 inch since they are 2560x1440, and monitors of that size usually draw around 30-100W - ok that's a terribly wide range but even assuming 30W with 6 monitors per graphic card the power draw would just about be split between graphic cards and monitors.

 

[Squilliam]

The monitors are drawing more power than the graphic cards anyway so shrinks won't do that much (unless you shrink the monitors...). Though it doesn't say what monitors those are, not even size but I guess 27 inch since they are 2560x1440, and monitors of that size usually draw around 30-100W - ok that's a terribly wide range but even assuming 30W with 6 monitors per graphic card the power draw would just about be split between graphic cards and monitors.

Well by then they should be using something like OLED so it should be a reduction for both and significant at that. I don't think for instance that those monitors are LED (hence the bezel) so a couple of generations of monitor tech should help as well.

 

[caveman-jim]

Since when are FirePro V9800 Cayman? Aren't they still Cypress or do you do sleazy renaming nowadays too with FirePro cards .

I thought the Evergreen series 6-display cards with Cypress die were codenamed Trillian.

 

[Alexko]

Now try running Crysis!

The facility is designed to help scientists visualize the massive amounts of information in the present and future eras of Big Data, everything from […] to creating a walk-through virtual colonoscopy.

Well that sounds lovely.

 

[lanek]

I ask me why they have not use the new samsung UD22 commercial display, this will have bring smaller bezel and surely a lot less of power demand. ( maybe due to the square limited resolution who will have ask 2x more display or connectivity type ( with the square resolution, you make "1" display full res with multiple display )
http://www.samsung.com/us/business/commercial-display-solutions/LH22UDBPLBB/ZA

But i can imagine thoses was Samsung display, ( they was demo surface2 , and other stuff from Samsung in the room )

 

[Alexko]

This is a research project, I would imagine they started working on it a while ago, and used what was available at the time.

Think of it as a proof of concept: now they might be able to work with an industry partner to offer this commercially with better displays, and perhaps newer Tahiti-based cards.

 

[lanek]

This is a research project, I would imagine they started working on it a while ago, and used what was available at the time.

Think of it as a proof of concept: now they might be able to work with an industry partner to offer this commercially with better displays, and perhaps newer Tahiti-based cards.

ofc, but after think a bit more to it, i think there's maybe too much limitations with the "wall ready" UD22.. ( 10x10 max, res of 960x960 ) without even speaking about the price if you want pass thoses limitations.
Thoses display use square dimensions, and then you do any resolution ( 16/9-16/10 etc ) by choose the number in the lenght and height.
With this solution, they will have surely end with 2 or even 3x more display used.

 

[Dave Baumann]

Since when are FirePro V9800 Cayman?

Yes, sorry, V9800 are Cypress based.