Multiple Monitors with one DisplayPort

I've read that DisplayPort supports multiple monitors. My question is how can I connect 3 monitors with one display port, is there such a splitter? I have 2 DVI monitors and one VGA (which I could use DVI to VGA convereter)

If I could do it, will I be limitted by the GPU? Is it possible that my GPU only allow for 2 monitors?

Solution 1:

The DisplayPort Spec supports the daisy chaining of multiple monitors, but not the splitting of the signal. Unfortunate, to support this you need to have at least 2 DisplayPort equipped monitors that support daisy chaining (of which there are none to my knowledge).

Given your situation, your best bet would be something like the Matrox TripleHead ToGo, which allows you to connect multiple monitors to a single port (and tricks your computer into only seeing one while spreading the image across several).

Using a solution like that, your main limitation is the power of your graphics card and how many pixels it can render well.

Solution 2:

DisplayPort 1.2 supports daisy-chaining like this in the spec, but I am not aware of any products on the market that currently support it, either on the video card side or the monitor side. I expect you'll see them in the next year or so, though, now that the specifications are official (and I believe there are already controllers entering production).