GPU to run 5 displays

[AdamNF]

I'm building a video editing workstation and I would like the ability to run 5 displays and I'm a little confused as to the inputs ill need.  

 

The monitor setup will be:

Two 27" 2560x1440 (Main working monitors)

Two 22" 1680x1050 (Vertically, one for bins and system monitoring, one for web content) 

One 50" HDTV (Will not be on my desk but a few feet away pointed at the couch in my office.  I would like to run one of the HDMI input to my PC so I can screen editing for clients)  

 

I was originally looking at an R9 380 but it doesn't seem to have enough outputs, so i did a little searching and saw you can get an active displayport splitter to solve this problem, however, with the extra cost of the splitter I could upgrade to a R9 390 (the gigabyte version for example has 5 outputs, 3 display port, one d-dvi and one hdmi).  I am assuming I could run both 1440p monitors off displayport, get a displayport dvi adapter then run one 1050p off that and the other off the built in dvi and finally the TV off the hdmi.  Am I missing something or would this work fine?  Also, is there a way to do this via the R9 380 without having to buy an 'expensive' displayport hub.  

 

Thanks in advance.

Adam

[Aytex]

980 ti

r9 390x

titan x

fury

fury x

[mata-pombos]

i think the gigabyte cards (900 series) have a flex display technology that has 1 hdmi 3 display port and some others check those out

[Tedster]

If you're not doing anything intensive and your workload is CPU based you should be okay with a couple of low-end cards?

[ExidCuter]

I'm building a video editing workstation and I would like the ability to run 5 displays and I'm a little confused as to the inputs ill need.  

 

The monitor setup will be:

Two 27" 2560x1440 (Main working monitors)

Two 22" 1680x1050 (Vertically, one for bins and system monitoring, one for web content) 

One 50" HDTV (Will not be on my desk but a few feet away pointed at the couch in my office.  I would like to run one of the HDMI input to my PC so I can screen editing for clients)  

 

I was originally looking at an R9 380 but it doesn't seem to have enough outputs, so i did a little searching and saw you can get an active displayport splitter to solve this problem, however, with the extra cost of the splitter I could upgrade to a R9 390 (the gigabyte version for example has 5 outputs, 3 display port, one d-dvi and one hdmi).  I am assuming I could run both 1440p monitors off displayport, get a displayport dvi adapter then run one 1050p off that and the other off the built in dvi and finally the TV off the hdmi.  Am I missing something or would this work fine?  Also, is there a way to do this via the R9 380 without having to buy an 'expensive' displayport hub.  

 

Thanks in advance.

Adam

You will need more horsepower to run that setup. I think that R9 380 is to weak to support that setup. It depends on what are you planing to do with it.

[AdamNF]

If you're not doing anything intensive and your workload is CPU based you should be okay with a couple of low-end cards?

I use the Adobe creative suite.  So I would like at least a 380 for OpenCL when using Adobes Mercury playback engine.  

[thekeemo]

just get a cheap secondary $15 card for extra outputs or use the onboard

[Jonathan W]

I'm building a video editing workstation and I would like the ability to run 5 displays and I'm a little confused as to the inputs ill need.  

 

The monitor setup will be:

Two 27" 2560x1440 (Main working monitors)

Two 22" 1680x1050 (Vertically, one for bins and system monitoring, one for web content) 

One 50" HDTV (Will not be on my desk but a few feet away pointed at the couch in my office.  I would like to run one of the HDMI input to my PC so I can screen editing for clients)  

 

I was originally looking at an R9 380 but it doesn't seem to have enough outputs, so i did a little searching and saw you can get an active displayport splitter to solve this problem, however, with the extra cost of the splitter I could upgrade to a R9 390 (the gigabyte version for example has 5 outputs, 3 display port, one d-dvi and one hdmi).  I am assuming I could run both 1440p monitors off displayport, get a displayport dvi adapter then run one 1050p off that and the other off the built in dvi and finally the TV off the hdmi.  Am I missing something or would this work fine?  Also, is there a way to do this via the R9 380 without having to buy an 'expensive' displayport hub.  

 

Thanks in advance.

Adam

 

Yes modern cards have 4 or even 5 outputs but be careful because ive heard that on some cards, even some modern ones, using certain outputs disables others. like a card may have 6 outputs but only 4 can be used at any given time. If youre going to be running rendering stuff on multiple monitors though [and i assume multiple projects at once] then you will most likely need multiple GFX cards and maybe even watercool them if you want any kind of clientele impressing performance.

[Jonathan W]

I use the Adobe creative suite.  So I would like at least a 380 for OpenCL when using Adobes Mercury playback engine.  

 

yes but will it still be enough if youre running multiple renders at the same time across your big screens is the big question? And theres a big difference between "it will work" and "it will work really well" cause theres nothing that sucks worse when youre really in the zone working on a model and you go to do a test render and its gunna take like an hour and that downtime totally kills your mojo

[AdamNF]

yes but will it still be enough if youre running multiple renders at the same time across your big screens is the big question? And theres a big difference between "it will work" and "it will work really well" cause theres nothing that sucks worse when youre really in the zone working on a model and you go to do a test render and its gunna take like an hour and that downtime totally kills your mojo

 

Well I don't see doing multiple renders at the same time and I wouldn't be rendering while I screen an edit for a client.  To be honest I wouldn't ever be running all displays at once.  If I'm screening something I to would be watching it on the TV.  I just don't want to go through the hassle of plugging my TV into my PC whenever i need to screen something.  And the 5th monitor, the TV, is the least important. 

 

 I'm on the Intel 5820k if that's helpful.