Introduction

Eyefinity is one of those weird features that you never fully appreciate until you can fully use it. The ability to use multiple monitors is nothing new. However, what is relatively new is the ability to span the entire screen of a game across those monitors in a single resolution. There are many features that have that same feel on AMD video cards. AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing (formerly STREAM) is another feature. Once you get a good program that can use GPU acceleration, you wonder how you ever did it on just the CPU.

I am no longer subjected to "poor man's" Eyefinity. I finally have three monitors. Previously, for Eyefinity reviews, I had to steal the television in the living room, as it had to become my third monitor. If you've seen my Eyefinity video, then you know how awkward it looked. It was also non-functional for real gaming, but worked for benchmarking. I now have a 22", 23", and 19" monitor to use that all fit in my office and on my desk. It even looks nice and is fully functional.

This came at a good time, as I received the Sapphire Radeon HD 6770 Flex Edition 1GB DX11 Video Card. Sapphire tossed their Flex technology on the newest 6770 AMD card. The 6770 Flex Edition comes with a 850MHz core clock and a 4800 MHz effective memory speed. There is 1 GB of onboard DDR5 memory. Native to the 6770 are 800 stream processors, 40 texture units, 64 Z/Stencil ROP Units, and 16 Color ROP Units. The 6770 is based off of the same technology as the older 5770 with a few changes. There is OpenGL 4.1 compatibility, HDMI 1.4a input, and updated support for hardware-accelerated Blu-ray 3D (MVC) decode.