At work I have 3, but I am driving by a much more powerful gpu. Pi 5 does 2 1080p just fine when they are mostly static (coding, net research, reference). Pi 5 still struggles a bit with one high res stream. I have not tried but don't expect a second stream is going to improve things. My typical solution at home is just one large (37") monitor.I don't know what the OP's use case is but my desktop PC currently has four monitors. Mainly because I'm often working with multiple windows and applications open and, for me, it's much easier to turn my head than to alt-tab and have windows redraw over each other. Or with applications or web pages that don't format well in a small window.
I may regret this but what is your use case for 3 monitors, that you think a Pi 5 can drive? As soon as I hear multimonitor I think coding (fine) call center (likely fine) or gaming (Huston we have a problem). Especially with the line "desktop to my son", I doubt this is going to end well.
Not really tried video streams on the Pi5 - mine are headless setups. Playing video over X11, VNC, or waypipe is unlikely to be satisfactory or to tell us anything useful.
In contrast my son's gaming PC will happy drive 3 1080P monitors, a VR headset, or even a couple 4K monitors, for his driving sim rig. Of course he is running a 1 gen back AMD CPU and a graphics card with 20 GB of RAM.
Mine's not a gaming rig. That's what the PS5 is for. 11th Gen i7, 2 x GTX1050Ti driving 2 x 1080P, 1 x 1600x900, 1 x 1680x1050, and occasionally 1 x 4K.
My point was mention of 3 monitors and of a desktop for his son, sounds like a gaming rig, and that is not going to end well.
Yeah, it kinda does. And I agree it won't if the intent is for current PC/console games. Or any from the last fifteen years or so.
Statistics: Posted by thagrol — Wed Jul 31, 2024 2:59 pm