12K Resolution Gaming Setup Renders 1.5 Billion Pixels, Costs $17,000

AsRock · Jul 26, 2013

suraswami said:
LOL.

thats my one year mortgage!

Think ya self lucky as that's more than a lot earn over a year.

nickbaldwin86 · Jul 26, 2013

theoneandonlymrk said:
Get your eyes cheked bro there are 3 gfx the top ones all black , , you cant see the cpu cooler at all and for that setup an ax1200 would be on its kneees flat out.
I also look upon this with envious eyes though I too would bin that case

Funny though... in the video @ 1:50 it says 2x 7970... but I am with you I see 3 cards... did from the beginning and then the comments started coming about only seeing 2.... lol

Want a setup like that. but want x79build and 4 Titans

erocker · Jul 26, 2013

So, who do I have to contact to get myself some "custom drivers"?

SIGSEGV · Jul 26, 2013

i don't really care with $17k, the main reason i do comment to this thread that there was a 'custom driver for 2/3 xfire eyefinity setup' from amd. is that the next whql driver from amd ? *drooolll*

MxPhenom 216 · Jul 26, 2013

Kaynar said:
$17,000 for a stock cooler, crap case with no airflow, crap PSU, 3x 7970 (in one pic there are only 2 of them) instead of having 4x Titans or gtx780, oh and wait, thats not even a X79 platform there. How the F*** did this cost $17,000? I guess the screens cost $16,000

And all that to play Dirt 3 that can be played even by intel integrated HD4600 but this time they use 3 GPUs to get playable fps on a very light game...

Call me again when Battlefield 4 can be played at 12k res.

The monitors due. 4k 32" Sharp monitors. those could be at least $5,000 each.

Over_Lord · Jul 26, 2013

The bulk of the system cost is due to those 3 x 4K monitors.

EarthDog · Jul 26, 2013

james888 said:
What did they cut out to get extra fps?

Image Quaility is my first guess... 10.4 drivers anyone? :laugh:

Ikaruga · Jul 26, 2013

Over_Lord said:
Oh, to get the setup working, AMD put together some custom drivers to make sure that EyeInfinity works well. Before using the custom drivers, the whole rig was able to pull together a measly 8 frames per second, to be more accurate, a slideshow.

I think this might be "too much" information from AMD's point of view

Octavean · Jul 26, 2013

The case looks to be an Antec Nine Hundred. Perhaps not the latest case design but I wouldn't call it a crappy case personally. The CPU cooler looks like a Zalman AlCu xxx. Cheap but likely a minor step up from stock and probably fine for some of the latest Core i5 / Core i7 processors provided your not trying to OC the CPU significantly.

The Sharp PN-K321 4K monitors were loaners so clearly they just needed to slap something together to test them with. The system they have seems fine for it whether you love or hate the HD 7970 cards / PSU.

I'd love to have a setup like this.

I don't care if the GPU setup would have difficulty in some or even most games. I'd just drop the settings and resolution to 2560x1440 or possibly even lower. Some might say that would defeat the purpose but not for the games that would be playable at 4K and one could always get some real work done with a tripe 4K monitor setup as well.

I mean at ~$17,000 someone better be able to get some real work done with them to pay them off.

TheDeeGee · Jul 26, 2013

Prima.Vera said:
I only see 2 cards. Am I missing something?

Naah, hes playing DiRT 3 which runs at 150 FPS on a single card.

Games like BF3, Crysis, Far Cry need 4 Titans at that resolution to just reach 60 FPS. Believe a Benchmark was posted here someone on TPU a while back.

TheoneandonlyMrK · Jul 26, 2013

erocker said:
So, who do I have to contact to get myself some "custom drivers"?

Big g's only gone and found THE question right there me too

radrok · Jul 26, 2013

Why are people too busy raging/hating over the 17K+ of the setup? He clearly stated on the main source :

In this article I’m going to share with you an amazing set of experiences that I recently had pushing the boundaries of 4K multi-mon gaming with several Sharp PN-K321 4K Ultra HD displays that I had on loan for a short period of time.

I'd say we got to praise him (and every single early adopter of new tech) because he's pushing the envelope and got AMD too involved in this.

It's because of people like him we get support for future setups.

Hate doesn't bring anything, stay classy instead

newtekie1 · Jul 26, 2013

hckngrtfakt said:
The case sucks

It is an Antec 900, it's older, but it isn't a terrible case. I seem to remember it getting pretty decent reviews actually.

hckngrtfakt said:
the PSU overheats because is probably a no-brand POS

It's a Thermaltake PSU, hardly no-brand POS. It was probably working pretty darn hard to drive 3 of those cards, but for just 2 it is more than enough.

hckngrtfakt said:
and the CPU cooler ? really ,.. might as well use the stock one....

The CNPS7700-alcu is quite a bit better than stock, but on a setup like this he likely isn't overclocking the CPU all that much.

hckngrtfakt said:
And am i missing something or does the article say "3 gpus" when i only
see 2

I see three:

Jorge · Jul 26, 2013

Perfect example of more money than brains. The fact that he plays games with this hardware kinda tells the whole story. :wtf:

nickbaldwin86 · Jul 26, 2013

Jorge said:
Perfect example of more money than brains. The fact that he plays games with this hardware kinda tells the whole story.

GO AWAY TROLL!!!!!!!

do any of you read before posting???? :nutkick:

radrok · Jul 26, 2013

nickbaldwin86 said:
GO AWAY TROLL!!!!!!!

do any of you read before posting????

QFT

MxPhenom 216 · Jul 26, 2013

EarthDog said:
Image Quaility is my first guess... 10.4 drivers anyone?

Those drivers were the only ones that were actually stable for me when I had a 5870 haha.

TheoneandonlyMrK · Jul 26, 2013

MxPhenom 216 said:
Those drivers were the only ones that were actually stable for me when I had a 5870 haha.

Strange ive had mine years no issues still upping every driver release and I must be up 20% or more in performance over day 1 when I had one card after six months of ify the five series rocked now about those amd tweeked drivers???? ,?.

jihadjoe · Jul 26, 2013

3-monitor 4k gaming is pretty much AMD-only at this point right?
AFAIK since each of those 4k monitors counts as two, this setup is basically Eyefinity 6x.

MxPhenom 216 · Jul 26, 2013

radrok said:
Why are people too busy raging/hating over the 17K+ of the setup? He clearly stated on the main source :

I'd say we got to praise him (and every single early adopter of new tech) because he's pushing the envelope and got AMD too involved in this.

It's because of people like him we get support for future setups.

Hate doesn't bring anything, stay classy instead

Like most things for enthusiasts, they hate on something because they are jelly and can't afford it.

Prima.Vera · Jul 26, 2013

jihadjoe said:
3-monitor 4k gaming is pretty much AMD-only at this point right?
AFAIK since each of those 4k monitors counts as two, this setup is basically Eyefinity 6x.

Yep, this is what I was thinking also. The Eyefinity setup is actually a 6 monitors emulated one.
Good catch.

Aybara said:
lulz...

why are they using 7970's though... 4x GTX Titan or go home... nubs

Because Mr. Troll, you cannot emulate 6 monitors on your Titan's cards.

Jstn7477 · Jul 26, 2013

Correct, each monitor is in DisplayPort 1.2 "Multi-stream transport" mode meaning it is actually being used as "two 1920*2160 monitors" in one. I'm impressed that these particular monitors support 60Hz as well. DisplayPort seems to be the way the future is heading for monitors, especially these "4K" models.

Breit · Jul 26, 2013

The 12K moniker is somewhat misleading! The 4K resolution comes from a cinema camera / projection format. As such a (real) 4K display has to have a resolution of 4096x2160. So in fact 3840x2160 isn't a true 4K resolution and therefor called '4K-HD' (as it is exactly 4 times, 2-by-2, HD resolution). A 8K resolution display has to have exactly 4 times the pixles of a 4K display (2-by-2 again), which is far more pixels than triple 4K(HD) displays...
Even though a hypothetical 12K display has to have 9 times the pixel count of a 4K display (3-by-3), which is something around 80 megapixels! This again is far more than those 24 megapixels in his triple 4K-HD setup.
Either post the amount of megapixles or just say that he uses a triple 4K-HD setup, please.

Jstn7477 · Jul 26, 2013

newtekie1 said:
They aren't emulating 2 monitors with one, I don't know where you get that. As far as the computer is concerned each monitor is one monitor. The only think close to emulating two monitors that 4k requires is the fact that it would need a Dual-Link DVI, so it would use two of the available DVI streams. However, he's using displayport with this setup, so that doesn't matter.

See this video: Gaming on the Sharp PN-K321 (UltraHD resolution 60...

I don't think DL-DVI has enough bandwidth to support 3840*2160 monitors at >30Hz.

newtekie1 · Jul 26, 2013

Jstn7477 said:
See this video: Gaming on the Sharp PN-K321 (UltraHD resolution 60...

I don't think DL-DVI has enough bandwidth to support 3840*2160 monitors at >30Hz.

Yeah, you're right, I forgot that for 60hz you need two connectors, hence the deleted commend. :toast:

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