Exclusive: ASUS EAH3850 Trinity - three GPUs with one card

Andreas G · Guest

We knew that CrossFireX would bring new multi-GPU setups, but we did not expect anyone to actually use more than two cores with a single card. ASUS proved us wrong, as EAH3850 Trinity is a tri-core card. It has three RV670 cores cooled by a heatpipe construction and a water block, all in a single card. The card is still just a concept and it hasn't been decided when or if it will be released, however we do know that it works. When benchmarks with the card will surface remains to be seen, but keep an eye open the upcoming weeks.

Below are some pictures of the card, which makes at least our mouths water.

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As you can see, ASUS has chosen to use a kind of modular design where the two cores are located on the back and one on the front, each on their own daughter card. The cores are directly cooled by heatsinks and heatpipes that transfers the heat away from the cores to the heatsink located in the rear of the card, which in turn is cooled by a water block.

Four DVI ports which can be used with up to four monitors, when CrossFire is deactivated.

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Along with the card comes a big water cooling unit which is fitted into two empty 5.25" slots.

Delph1 · Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 5:41 pm Post subject:

Yes, those are MXM modules, but you will have a hard time finding faster modules to install Wink

RV670 is the fastest core available from AMD, and we doubt that NVIDIA modules would be fully compatible.

The amount of memory with each module is still being discussed, 256Mb to 512MB, most likely the former.

//Andreas
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aca · Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:56 pm Post subject:

This card looks a bit odd. 0_o