So I'd been thinking about finally escaping the AMD hell I'm usually stuck in with their driver and lack of giving a care about linux largely, and your comments got me looking at the new big daddy 1070/1080 cards.  Phoronix likes them and reports them working well enough, but then I saw this on newegg:


Really?!  Even with 3x displayport's and 1x hdmi2.0 port, I can't effectively use them more than 2x 4k monitors wide?

How absurd that nvidia *still* limits their framebuffers where amd has allowed 16384x16384 resolution since the 6xxx series.  My 3x 4k tv system runs just dandy on my ancient 7900 amd card lately with oss drivers, but requires 11520x2160 that apparently they cannot/will not do.  They stupidly limit to two wide and two high vs three wide that would keep you from trying to use a reticle over the display edge?  Not much of a gaming system card for multi-monitor I'd say.

Argh, this is why I still don't use nvidia, even though their purported quality and performance is better.  Thanks a lot for useless hardware, at least I know I can always score the amd video cards on ebay cheap that *do* work.

The other odd thing I found - there seems to be a scalper market on availability of these cards.  Ebay is full of them selling a good $200-400 more than retail by parasites soaking them up from retail chains for profit.  Another good reason to avoid nvidia it seems.

-mb


On 06/19/2016 02:07 PM, Brian Cluff wrote:
On 06/18/2016 09:22 PM, Michael Butash wrote:
Since I don't know anyone else doing a 4k too - are you using a native
hdmi 2.0 gpu port?

Yes, I'm running a Nvidia 980ti on mine.

I'm using an old AMD/ATI 7950 with displayport outs I'm connecting to 3x
club3d dp1.2-to-hdmi2.0 adapters to my tv's that work mostly ok, but one
always seems to freak out