sssslamin wrote:curious if this works with nvidia m graphics cards such as 970m 980m.
Yes but you'll still be limited to the 4 max displays including your laptop UI
could a laptop with one dp1.2 one hdmi and one vga be used with this to run 6 displays plus the laptop display?
No. Nvidia GPUs will be capped at 4 and AMD GPUs at 6 but not all cards will support maximum outputs.
could a laptop with two dp1.2s use two of these and the built in display?
No
very curious anyone tested please report thanks.
Even though MST Hubs are very attractive on paper, I don't believe they are yet very reliable and I would never use them for a show.
MST allows to carry multiple streams on one cable but the GPU still treats it as as multiple displays so whatever maximum count your GPU has still applies.
In comparison, a video processor such as a Datapath X4 or a Matrox 2x/3x splits one large outputs into smaller sections so as long as your GPU supports the larger resolution, it's counted as one output.
For instance, I run up to 8 displays off my laptop (MacBook Pro) regularly using 2 Datapath X4 off the two MiniDP ports and I do multi-projector blends. I could technically run 12 displays by adding one more Datapath X4 off the HDMI port.
