Once in a while a company wants to shock by releasing a product deemed as revolutionary, although it is basically the same thing as before but under a different wrapping, Zotac's way of doing this being by taking an ordinary GTX 460 graphics card and adding it three DisplayPort connectors next to a DVI-I port.
Since the GF104 GPU was not built in order to run four displays, Zotac had to make some sacrifices, the maximum resolution supported by each monitor being limited to 1600x1200, the dual-link DVI-I port having to be used in order to connect higher resolution displays, going up to 2560x1600.
Apart from the extra display connectors available this is pretty much your
standard GTX 460 based graphics card, the only difference being a minor factory overclock that raises the core speed from 675MHz to 710Mhz.
“Quadruple-display computing is becoming more popular for gaming and office use. With the new Zotac GeForce GTX 460 3DP we can deliver quadruple-display computing with NVIDIA Fermi architecture from a single graphics card, a world’s first,” said Carsten Berger, marketing director, ZOTAC International.
I doubt this would see to much office work in its lifetime since buying a GTX 460 for Outlook duty would be overkill, gaming being a much more likely scenario for such a graphics card but this would have to compete with
AMD Radeon based solutions that offer Eyefinity support while three monitor gaming would only be possible in older titles that don't have such high performance requirements since the GTX 460 doesn't have the graphics power necessary in order to push all those pixels needed for a tri-monitor setup.
No words on pricing just yet, but if
Zotac wants this thing to succeed then it should be priced similar to the rest of the GTX 460 solutions available, since this doesn't bring all that much when it comes down to functionality, going for a triple monitor setup also meaning you would have to pay extra for those DisplayPort to DVI adapters necessary that don't come bundled with this board.