One card, six displays

The Radeon HD 6000 family of cards will also be the first to support DisplayPort 1.2 which allows up to three monitors to be hooked up to a single port. As the cards come with two DisplayPorts, they will be able to output images to six displays at a max resolution of 2,560 x 1,600-pixels.

It will also be possible to drive the monitors at completely ­different resolutions for the best gaming experience, said Skinner.

AMD is a little slow to the 3D stereoscopic gaming but that is only because it didn't want to go the proprietary route like its rival ­nVidia which currently only supports its own 3D vision ­hardware, Skinner claimed.

Although the company already had limited 3D support for some of its older graphics cards, its new approach in software and hardware will allow users to pick their own components for their 3D gaming and movie rig.

For the hardware part, AMD will support a number of 3D glasses such as shutter glasses as well as passive displays that don't require glasses at all.

In terms of software, the new Radeon HD 6000 series graphics cards will work with popular 3D conversion applications such as those from DDD and iZ3D.

Currently, over 400 titles are supported by the stereo 3D ­conversion software from the two companies.

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