Photo tour of the Eyefinity setups team Radeon uses at work

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited July 2012 in Hardware
First off, here's mine. I'm the product marketing manager for all gaming-grade Radeon cards/CrossFire/Eyefinity. If you've ever seen a Radeon banner, poster, product box, or anything CrossFire/Eyefinity related on amd.com/newegg/whatever... that's me!:

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Here's David Doel's, product marketing specialist for our ISV team. Many of the blogs from http://blogs.amd.com/play are from him, and he also helps run the Mass Luminosity contest/giveaways on AMD's Facebook. He also works with our ISV team to secure contracts with game titles, and just generally helps run our "Gaming Evolved" program:

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Here's Natasha Sampson's. She's a product marketing specialist for Radeon Memory, our AIO system GPUs, AMD HD3D and commercial/SMB Radeon. If you've ever seen an all-in-one system with a Radeon, she was responsible for making it happen. Ditto any stick of Radeon-branded memory you've ever seen, or any HD3D material you can find on amd.com:

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Here's Darren Cheung's. He just join the Radeon product management team from the APU side to do entry-level and mainstream GPU planning. He will be overseeing future products like the HD 6450 or the HD 6570:

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Here's Simon Ng's. He's a Radeon product manager and the wizard behind the press decks we send to reviewers with new GPUs. He also helps train our global marketing and sales teams on the benefits of a new product:

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Here's Jay Marsden's. He does what I do (prod. mkting), except for the entire stack of Radeon notebook parts. He's neck-deep in rolling out new Southern Islands-based SKUs like the 7970M:

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Here's the desk of Dave Baumann, the senior manager of the product management team. He leads the guys that set the scope for features and performance for all desktop Radeon products:

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Here's David Tjong's desk. He does technical marketing and manages our relationships with partners like Sapphire, ErgoTech, CoolerMaster, Silverstone and other big-name vendors. He trades our gear for theirs, and makes sure everything works well together (e.g. does Radeon XYZ fit comfortably in case ABC):

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Finally, here's Shane Parfitt's desk. He's the product manager for Eyefinity, and is responsible for determining what features go into the product (e.g. DDM audio, 5x1 portrait mode and so on). Lately he's also been running performance analysis on the GCN Architecture's compute capabilities (which are awesome btw):

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Comments

  • JBoogalooJBoogaloo This too shall pass... Alexandria, VA Icrontian
    Pretty Cool, thanks for the photo tour Thrax! But, go Canada?
    JK's :P
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    I'm American. ;)
  • TushonTushon I'm scared, Coach Alexandria, VA Icrontian
    He's only a temporary polar bear
  • mertesnmertesn I am Bobby Miller Yukon, OK Icrontian
    edited July 2012
    Here's mine. I don't work for AMD, but I'm personally offended that @thrax didn't include my Eyefinity setup ;) It's not in true Eyefinity mode in this shot, but 3600x1920 is excellent for working or playing.
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  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    You guys are srs bzns, working so hard you didn't even have time to change the desktop background from stock.
  • JBoogalooJBoogaloo This too shall pass... Alexandria, VA Icrontian
    Thrax said:

    I'm American. ;)

    I figured, but the coffee mug made me giggle :)
  • NiGHTSNiGHTS San Diego Icrontian
    edited July 2012
    How did you go about getting eyefinity on the two phones? Did you see a performance decrease when calling from phone 1 and listening/speaking on phone 2?

    (Very cool setups, and thanks for the office tour!)
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    Thanks for the office tour, Thrax!
  • BobbyDigiBobbyDigi ? R U #Hats ! TX Icrontian
    TIL AMD cubes are about the same as my cube

    Thanks Thrax, this was really cool to see.

    -Digi
  • @mertesn What games can you run using all 3 screens like that? Seriously awesome setup. Having VS in a single portrait display would be great. Do want.
  • UPSLynxUPSLynx :KAPPA: Redwood City, CA Icrontian
    You guys need to hang more stuff on those cube walls!

    Great tour man, glad to see you guys doing it big.

    For what it's worth, as I was the manager for marketing Eyefinity on FirePro boards during my tenure at AMD, here's what my desk looked like:

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  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian

    @mertesn What games can you run using all 3 screens like that? Seriously awesome setup. Having VS in a single portrait display would be great. Do want.

    Any game that runs Eyefinity.

  • This is going to be a niche market for the first monitor manufacturer that comes up with 3 in 1 design of some kind. I'm not taking a special mount, I'm taking an all in one, 3 in 1 matched solution, interconnected and hinged in some clever way. @Thrax, AMD certified eyefinity set up's from a monitor partner. Get on that!
  • http://support.amd.com/us/eyefinity/Pages/eyefinity-software.aspx

    Good grief, I have somehow completely missed this advance in technology. I am now sold to buy my first AMD/Ati since my 9700pro. Will do this next year when I get settled in my new home.
  • mertesnmertesn I am Bobby Miller Yukon, OK Icrontian

    @mertesn What games can you run using all 3 screens like that? Seriously awesome setup. Having VS in a single portrait display would be great. Do want.

    If you're going to do Eyefinity TF2, portrait seems to be the best way. I've found that landscape is just too wide for me for gaming. Skyrim can be played in a window, but not full screen (it's a console port, go figure) without some tweaking. AMD's certified list is here, but there should be lots of other titles that "just work".
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2012

    http://support.amd.com/us/eyefinity/Pages/eyefinity-software.aspx

    Good grief, I have somehow completely missed this advance in technology. I am now sold to buy my first AMD/Ati since my 9700pro. Will do this next year when I get settled in my new home.

    You'll want to read this: http://www.amd.com/us/products/technologies/amd-eyefinity-technology/how-to/Pages/faqs.aspx

    This is going to be a niche market for the first monitor manufacturer that comes up with 3 in 1 design of some kind. I'm not taking a special mount, I'm taking an all in one, 3 in 1 matched solution, interconnected and hinged in some clever way. @Thrax, AMD certified eyefinity set up's from a monitor partner. Get on that!

    Samsung MD230. Sold terribly. Not worth it for us or them. People overwhelmingly prefer to buy their own monitors.
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited July 2012
    I've been wanting to show off my Eyefinity setup for a while, but my desk has been clean maybe once, and I forgot to take a photo while I had the chance.
    mertesn said:

    Skyrim can be played in a window, but not full screen (it's a console port, go figure) without some tweaking.

    It runs in fullscreen for me (although now it's letterboxing for some reason), I just needed to enter the res into the SkyrimPrefs.ini (it is goofy not to detect the current res in the Options menu, though). What is a problem is getting some drivers that don't cripple the game in some way. I had problems for months with every driver release to the point where I stopped playing. Now we've had four more releases since the 12.3 I still have installed, so I'll have to check to see if things have been worked out.
  • Given the level of education, enthusiasm, and cash this requires I can see why people want to use their own gear. I'm hoping next year when I'm ready to buy, the style of near zero bevel has caught fire and displayport is more common. Thank you for the faq, good read.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2012
    Gargoyle said:

    I've been wanting to show off my Eyefinity setup for a while, but my desk has been clean maybe once, and I forgot to take a photo while I had the chance.


    mertesn said:

    Skyrim can be played in a window, but not full screen (it's a console port, go figure) without some tweaking.

    It runs in fullscreen for me (although now it's letterboxing for some reason), I just needed to enter the res into the SkyrimPrefs.ini (it is goofy not to detect the current res in the Options menu, though). What is a problem is getting some drivers that don't cripple the game in some way. I had problems for months with every driver release to the point where I stopped playing. Now we've had four more releases since the 12.3 I still have installed, so I'll have to check to see if things have been worked out.
    The last four driver releases have all had flawless CF and/or Eyefinity driver performance. The issue was that Bethesda refused to give us builds of their game (e.g. patches) for us to write the proper code into the drivers, so when we would go to freeze the driver codebase for a release, we had no ability to get the fixes into the driver until the patches had already launched.

    12.7 beta is an exceptional driver.

  • UPSLynxUPSLynx :KAPPA: Redwood City, CA Icrontian
    Thrax said:
    Awwww yeah, dat FAQ! Makes me nostalgic.
  • NullenVoydNullenVoyd Orlandish Icrontian
    We had nothing but problems with those Avaya phones / systems, yet corp seems to keep going with them.
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