While the ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition supports up to 6 displays, we are going to be performance testing in the more popular 3×1 configuration. We are going to get a the heart of the video card and see if the 2GB of memory on Eyefinity 6 is really beneficial in Eyefinity resolutions with single GPU as well as CrossFireX.

AMD’s ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition was launched on March 31st of this year. We covered the experience of six display gaming in our very informative ATI Radeon 5870 2GB 3X2 Eyefinity Gaming Experience video. If you have not watched this video we highly suggest you do. In the 3X2 Eyefinity Gaming Experience video we explore a six display configuration and what that means to the gameplay experience. This evaluation today will cover performance with these new 2GB Eyefinity 6 video cards in a 3×1 configuration, up to 5760×1200 resolution on 3x Dell 2480WFP Digital LCDs. We are going to find out today if the 2GB frame buffer makes a difference in single GPU and CrossFireX configurations.

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