Apple Cinema Display 24" - Mini DP, Which ATI Card will NATIVELY work with this LCD?

Hey Guys,

I must have spent at least 8 hours over the past 6 months researching various answers and topics about the ATI Radeon 5870-Series and Apple Cinema Display....

Knowing the both do not work together for whatever reason, Many people say they get a black screen or need to use this adapter: http://www.atlona.com/pdf/manuals/AT-DP200_manual.pdf

I have an ASUS Original HD 5870.. Obviously Asus is one of the few vendors of this card who has not yet provided a BIOS Update for the card. Some people have said BIOS updates fixed this issue, whereas the answer is otherwise certainly unclear...

I would like to know if its possible to run a Cinema Display on my card, or if I should sell my card and buy the EyeFinity Edition Sapphire 5870 with 2GB and 6 Mini-DP Connections... And if I did, Should that not work natively with the Apple Screen?


Of course, You could always reccomend a monitor as nice as the Apple LED-Backlit H-IPS screen, But, I don't know of any... and I have 300$ worth of Gift Certificates to blow at the Apple Store.

From what I have read only an ATI Radeon 5800 Eyefinity 6 edition will natively work with that display. There appears to be a bug on regular 5800 series cards that won't let them work natively.

Most 57xx and 58xx will not work due to a hardware bug. The 5870 Eyefinity6, the 5770 Eyefinity5 and the 5970 are the only three cards from the series confirmed to work. 4xxx and earlier cards do not have this problem, so the 4890 with DP was a popular choice for this.

See the huge thread about this here:

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1462524