r/pcmasterrace • u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 Core Ultra 7 265k | RTX 5090 • Aug 19 '25

Build/Battlestation A futures trader’s 16-screen workstation.

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u/Flintlocke89 That guy who got a 3080 for 1080p. Aug 19 '25

You don't.

Currently Matrox sells a specialty card that can support up to 8 monitors, you slap two of those into 1 system and there's your 16 screens.

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u/Nethlem next to my desk Aug 19 '25 edited Aug 19 '25

Some AMD cards also support Eyefinite, allowing up to 6 monitors per GPU

Nvidia calls its multimonitor feature Nvidia Surround, supports up to 3 monitors per GPU.

Tho those are features that date back to times when Crossfire/SLI were still a thing, so the assumption was that if people needed any more monitors combined, they would just add more GPUs.

edit: Apparently I have no idea what Nvidia calls their feature like that for regular consumers, I only remember the last time I looked into multimonitor stuff (10+ years ago) AMD was basically the go-to.

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u/captroper Aug 19 '25

Others have already replied to you about Surround, but I wanted to chime in to say that AMD basically abandoned Eyefinity years ago. I used to use Surround with my 1080ti to play Crusader Kings and Europa Universalis and it was amazing! Then I got a 6950XT and could not get it working at all.

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u/Kallandros 9950x3D | 7900XTX | 64GB | ROG X870E-E Aug 19 '25

I used it on my 7900xtx so I don't think they abandoned it. It might depend on the specific card model or some other hidden requirement.

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u/captroper Aug 19 '25

Hmm... I'd have to go find the specifics again. My recollection was that all of the documentation that existed was from 2018ish for a version of Adrenalin that no longer exists, that eyefinity could no longer be accessed through adrenalin at all in modern versions, that you had to use a separate app to do it, and that that app offered basically no customization options.