Panoramic Ifrit

[nasomi]

I'd hate to do it on a radeon card. I have dual gtx580's and barely squeeze 40-50fps out at 5760x1200, which means 3d is almost not an option without scaling the graphics back. According to this chart, I'd need 3x 6970's to get the same performance out of the ati cards.

[Molly_Millions]

I'd hate to do it on a radeon card. I have dual gtx580's and barely squeeze 40-50fps out at 5760x1200, which means 3d is almost not an option without scaling the graphics back. According to this chart, I'd need 3x 6970's to get the same performance out of the ati cards.

I run FFXIV on 3 screens in 3D from time to time (mostly I use 2D) using 2 Nvidea GTS 450s. I get around 60 frames per second with my resolution set at 5040 X 1050. I find it hard to believe that you would 'need' that much horsepower to do the same with Radeon cards, or does ATI just suck that badly these days?

[Rydin]

I'd hate to do it on a radeon card. I have dual gtx580's and barely squeeze 40-50fps out at 5760x1200, which means 3d is almost not an option without scaling the graphics back. According to this chart, I'd need 3x 6970's to get the same performance out of the ati cards.

Remember when Passmark was relevant?
Anyway... At resolutions that high you would end up having to sacrifice textures or AA quality at the moment...
But hopefully the new game engine will so much more efficiently that it doesn't matter
as far as AMD vs NVidia for 3 monitors.... Its a tricky deal
AMD makes it so you need to use display port on at least 1 monitor...
But Nvidia makes it so all three monitors have to be the exact same model...
Also Nvidia needs at least a dual GPU set up to do it whereas even single GPU AMD cards will do it...
and technically Mr smart stuff... the HD 6990 gives consistently better 3 monitor frames than the 590
Both are super expensive and hard to find these days though....
You could go with the HD 6970 or even HD 6870 that are single GPU set ups.... and maybe just lower your settings a little...
but you cannot go with the Nvidia GTX 570 or 580 unless you use an SLI setup
So from those bullet points... AMD wins the 3 monitor race....