Galaxy is probably one of the most innovative graphics card makers we have today. It is also a close partners to NVIDIA, which means the majority of innovations are for GeForce cards. So is this one when Galaxy broke through NVIDIA’s limitations and launched two graphics cards that support four and five monitors respectively.
NVIDIA doesn’t equip its graphics cards with more than three outputs and therefore you need extra special solutions to connect more monitors. Either you buy an extra graphics card or you add an extra GPU on the card, chich brings more connectivity.
Galaxy has chosen a different path, as usual, and relies on a display controller from IDT. The perhaps most interesting model for regular people is a GeForce GTX 560 Ti card using a modular circuit board that we’ve earlier seen with Galaxy/KFA2 GTX 460 WHDI, where it simply expands the functionality.
Through its extra display controller the card can feed up to five monitors at the same time. This is done through four Mini-HDMI ports and a DVI or DisplayPort output (optional). The card supports surround gaming, but limited to three displays and 1680 x 1050 pixels resolution (5040 x 1050 pixels total). Or four monitors with 1440 x 900 pixels resolution.
Galaxy also presented a GeForce 210 card with passive cooling and two DMS59 connectors that can feed up to four monitors up to 1920 x 1080 pixel resolutions. At the same time Galaxy ships its cards with software from WinSplit Revolution for better screen handlings.
The cards start shipping May.
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