It turns out our well informed sources weren't that well informed after all. This is a new card from ATI but it's not the faster HD 5870.

It is an HD 5870 that can take care of six displays. The official name is ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition and the card will launch after Cebit. The exact date is March 11th and as you can imagine this card will go after Matrox multi-display solutions rather than Nvidia's Fermi based GTX 480.

Since we don’t know too many people with six monitors this card will definitely be interesting, but it won’t make a huge difference in the high end market. It has the Halo effect as it's cool to run six displays but only few will actually do that.

Very few people have two displays to begin with, but some people with loads of cash and a train / airplane simulation obsession will definitely go after this card.