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Re:Intel Compute Stick by wilhil on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @12:54PM (#8851993)
To be fair, that is a big requirement... Loads of mid to high end graphics cards from just a few years backfail at dual QHD screen.

I power 2x 1920x1080 screens off of a NUC and am very happy.

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Re:Intel Compute Stick by kllrnohj on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @05:45PM (#8853854)
No, it isn't.

1920 * 1080 pixels * 5 * 60 = 622MPixel/s of fillrate required.

Radeon 9700 Pro, high end from over 10 years ago, had a fillrate of 2600MPixels/s

Let's take a high end graphics card from a few years back, say... GTX 480? A 2010 card? That has a fillrate of 33,600 MPixels/sec.

5x 1920x1080 quads is child's play for any reasonable desktop GPU part. In fact high end cards from 2009 could game at 5760x2160 (that's 6x 1920x1080 displays) off of a single card.

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