Eyefinity on Mac

[wadesaunders]

Hey guys, basically I need a graphics card that will do eyefinity on my hackintosh, it needs to be stable as it will be used in a production environment, I understand that I can achieve the same outcome with a triplehead2go. However I'd rather a graphics card than that. I require 3 screens plus a main monitor and a preview screen so must be capable of 5 monitors... Just tell me to stop being unrealistic if this isn't going to happen

 

[Fl0r!an]

Modern Nvidia graphics (Kepler & Maxwell generation) support up to 4 concurrent displays. You could feed the last one from iGPU, and you're fine.

There are some AMD graphics which support up to 6 displays ("AMD Eyefinity"). I've read some positive reports about some of them (I think HD 7870 & HD 7970 Eyefinity 6). You'll lose sleep/wake support with an AMD GPU though (have a look at the Radeon thread in this section), so I'd prefer to get a Nvidia card + iGPU (or a 2nd Nvidia).

 

[wadesaunders]

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Modern Nvidia graphics (Kepler & Maxwell generation) support up to 4 concurrent displays. You could feed the last one from iGPU, and you're fine.

There are some AMD graphics which support up to 6 displays ("AMD Eyefinity"). I've read some positive reports about some of them (I think HD 7870 & HD 7970 Eyefinity 6). You'll lose sleep/wake support with an AMD GPU though (have a look at the Radeon thread in this section), so I'd prefer to get a Nvidia card + iGPU (or a 2nd Nvidia).

Do those nvidia cards support the mosaic feature? I need to be able to create 1 big screen out of 3 screens with a resolution of 5760x1080.

 

[slim.jim]

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Do those nvidia cards support the mosaic feature? I need to be able to create 1 big screen out of 3 screens with a resolution of 5760x1080.

I am pretty sure that in OS X you will essentially have one display that is the resolution of all of your monitors combined. You can then arrange the displays in System Preferences.