We’ve never used (or heard of anyone trying) the Club3D unit. It looks very promising, but as with all these splitter device like Matrox TripleHead and Datapath X4s, it is likely to have its own unique limitations or issues. We would be interested in hearing from you if you test this device!
That goes for the FirePro 600W card as well, we have no experience with this line of card. This card in particular looks to have a good amount of graphics RAM at 2GB, but no information on how powerful it is, and due judging by the size and power requirements I’m thinking it is on the less powerful side. We recommend developing a good relationship with your vendor so that changing hardware when/if needed is as easy as possible.
i’m waiting for some answers from the manufacturer (Club3D), but right now i’m considering using 2 W600 (or maybe 2 HD 7870 eyefinity 6), instead of the 4 MST hubs in one single card, which was looking a bit of a stretch!
i’ts a shame nvidia doesn’t have any product with more that 4 outputs
also waiting on a reply from my vendor to see if they find any alternatives
since the content is not so demanding, (3 HD videos, 6 audio streams, and 11 photo slideshows), i’m betting TouchDesigner will handle it OK.
You can use a quadro sync and a couple of quadro k5000 cards, gives you up to 16 outputs In mosaic. Works fine, but performance does not scale to well. It’s better to use a combination of gpu affinity and mosaic, I’m doing that with a 13 hd streams from a single system.
Not sure if ati has gpu affinity support. If not, you will not get good performance when using more than 1card in your system
i’ve been talking to my vendor, and we agreed to start with a system with 4 nvidia GTX760 OC. its not a K5000 , but its a starting point, if it doesnt pull the job, we can exchange for something more powerful. in fact, the installation will not be very demanding in terms of performance power, its a video of 1920x3240 cropped in 3, and 10 photo slideshows, all in sync, with a 4.2 soundtrack!
will be posting development on the issue,
cheers
Gato
Be careful using multiple Geforce’s in a system. Only one of the cards will be doing 100% of the work, and there is extra overhead transferring the frame data to the other cards. It may work for your uses, but it’s not a supported configuration.
I’m not a big fan of AMD for other reasons, but here is some info from OGL forums by user Leith Bade:
“…You should nag NVIDIA into exposing WGL_NV_gpu_affinity on consumer cards.
AMD exposes a similar WGL_AMD_gpu_association on consumer cards…”
