Asus plans EAH3850 Trinity with 3 GPUs

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Update: Asus let us know they haven’t decided the amount of memory per MXM module yet, we will get final specs later

"Muropaketti.com got first pictures of Asus EAH3850 Trinity graphics card which is equipped with three 55 nm RV670 GPUs. Asus engineers have managed to build this proof of concept using MXM graphics modules from notebooks and AMD’s CrossFireX technology. All three MXM modules include RV670 GPU and not decided amount of memory (likely 512 MB).

Two of the modules are located on back side of the PCB and the third one is on the front side. All GPUs are cooled with heatpipes which are routed to rear of the card and attached to separate liquid cooling solution. PCB has an additional 8-pin PCI Express power connector and the card features four DVI display connectors. Currently there are no information about the clockspeeds or availability. All we know so far is that the card actually works."

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Finnish hardware site Muropaketti.com:
http://plaza.fi/muropaketti/asukselt...50-katso-kuvat

this might be nice for future

Great idea,

hope that it scales good.

LOL, sextuple X-fire anyone? :D

This is one of the ugliest cards i have ever seen though.. hehehe

lols takes up too many slots

2 for graphics and 2 for the water cooling thingy :(

if they would go for a proper wc setup they could probably do the same with 4x 3870 chips...

the concept is interesting, but the real product value? about zero, why? It most likely wont stand a chance against 2x 3870 or a 3870x2 while taking up more space than either of them.

LOL.
3* 3850 with 256MB framebuffer... what are they thinking ?
Users buying "triple CrossFire" for 1024x768 ? 2xAA 4xAF :D

WOULD BE MORE IMPRESSIVE WTIH 3870 BINNED gpus AND 512mb per core.

6way crossfire might be good for benchers though.

Update: Asus let us know they haven’t decided the amount of memory per MXM module yet, we will get final specs later

Sampsa, you know as well as I do, that they haven't decided whether they will release it or not ;)

I still agree that it's a cool design though :)

//Andreas

I really do hope this bugger gets released without or with one MXM-Module (or at all...). this way we could choose which graphic we want to use and could upgrade easily when more power is needed.

I'd watercool it differently though. the cooling sucks imho. why didn't they make a typical w/c-block? this design is very inefficient...

hopefully ASUS will offer MXM-Modules in the retail-market as well.

I'd buy one if it was available! I was looking forward to buying the graphic card MSI presented in 2006 with two MXM-Modules, but it never came to live :/
http://www.hardwareluxx.de/story.php?id=3570

€: damn! I just noticed it's to high to fit into my V600B. the reservoir is in the way...

TBH I can't see this card selling, unless it's priced very well.

MXM modules are too pricey and hardly available.

Jesus crhist that is one kick ass GPU =D

Erm why bother doing this....

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MXM modules are too pricey and hardly available.

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at least the last thing could change if ASUS wanted to sell this graphic card. or do you think ASUS would be that stupid?

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Originally Posted by Pete

Erm why bother doing this....

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kinda thinking the same thing here

Liquid cooling system looks like Thermaltake Bigwater 760i.

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Originally Posted by Pete

Erm why bother doing this....

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Probably a "because we can" kinda of deal.

Looks interesting enough though. I still want to see benches and whatnot.

Schwarzie:

"Must, terminate, single-GPU".. :lol:

Hooray Asus engineers, but let it remain a prototype for future high-end products, this won't sell...

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Probably a "because we can" kinda of deal.

Looks interesting enough though. I still want to see benches and whatnot.

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more likely a "because we gotta get rid of this junk"

3 gpus and 256mb ram. That's gotta stink

The Leadtek Leviathan Ultra had a wc solution and didn't sell well...this is even worse on the space, and TBH most people would probably rather have a 9800GX2 unless, like I said, this was priced reasonably.

Didn't MSI already do this kind of stuff a few years ago with MXM modules to demonstrate their know how, haven't seen such a board ever on the market... if we get numbers on this card then it would be nice... awaiting further news... this card is oriented at which crowd ?

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Didn't MSI already do this kind of stuff a few years ago with MXM modules to demonstrate their know how, haven't seen such a board ever on the market... if we get numbers on this card then it would be nice... awaiting further news... this card is oriented at which crowd ?

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they did, indeed. see my post above ;)
http://www.hardwareluxx.de/story.php?id=3570

Soz didn't see that ; I read it in Pcgameshardware you prolly know that great mag too :) but that was ages agooooooooo

Asus did it, putting 3 rv670 cores on 1 card.

Full Story:
http://www.nordichardware.com/news,7543.html

3dmark world record anyone? :D

A prototype was send to Nordichardware, first of all, the pics:
http://www.nordichardware.com/image3.php?id=4788

http://www.nordichardware.com/image3.php?id=4786

http://www.nordichardware.com/image3.php?id=4784

http://www.nordichardware.com/image3.php?id=4781

Thread already going about this

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=181877

Didn't see that one :shrug: :shakes:

Yupp, and just to be clear, I don't have the card at hand, but one should arrive in the Nordics the coming week.
I'm not sure if there will be anymore information to reveal then, but I will if I can.

//Andreas

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they did, indeed. see my post above ;)
http://www.hardwareluxx.de/story.php?id=3570

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MSI's looks better tbh

If it gives the performance of tri-3850 Crossfire, ill buy one if i can get it without the water crap, but i higly daubt that.

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Originally Posted by NH|Delph1

Yupp, and just to be clear, I don't have the card at hand, but one should arrive in the Nordics the coming week.
I'm not sure if there will be anymore information to reveal then, but I will if I can.

//Andreas

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It wont be mass produced and you/we should see benchs within 1 week :)

Any idea of what price range it will be in?

They will be expensive!
Why not just make it 4 GPUs? There's room for it.
Honestly I really don't understand the reason for this?

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Originally Posted by metro.cl

It wont be mass produced and you/we should see benchs within 1 week :)

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Something like that, yea :D

//Andreas

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Originally Posted by squilliam

Why not just make it 4 GPUs? There's room for it.
Honestly I really don't understand the reason for this?

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Nonan CF! :D
3×3 GPUs...
e-peen... ;)

Please release it!
So I can give it that absolutely useless product of the year award! :D

Watch, It kicks ass, and it'll sell for under $200.
Even though that would never happen, I think that is the kind of pricing we'd have to see before any of us would even consider it.

Sad thing is it WILL be expensive.

Think about it:
-3 Laptop video cards
-lots of copper
-A custom CF bridge card-
-Independent Watercooling system

We're looking at $500 easily... too bad.
I might have bought it if it were sub $200 ( gotta find something to spend this $600 free check from the Gov on).

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Please release it!
So I can give it that absolutely useless product of the year award! :D

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LOL i'm sorry that goes to the macbookair!

Its like the ASUS dual 7800GT.

But if they are just x3 laptop GFX, could one then switch on or all out with a laptop 3870 version?

But i still kinda like the looks, black PCB & cobber heatpipes = win, but i the water "station" sux

I wonder if they could do dual try-fire with these.
Even if they could, this still seems to be a bit frivolous, nvidia can pry the performance crown out of ati's (bankrupt) cold dead hands, because i don't think this product will be a very big money maker.

I want one of those mxm modules lol..

well, that looks like a giant clusterf*ck

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Sooner than expected, we've been served some more information about the prototype triple-core card from ASUS. Radeon HD 3850 Trinity will sport three RV670 cores, all on a separate MXM module. Last we reported we did not know the exact specifications of the card, but those have been unveiled today. The core clock is 668MHz and each core has 512MB GDDR3 memory running at 1656MHz, that's a total of 1536MB (and 960 unified shaders if you want to get technical).

Kinc has served us with some benchmarks with the card, using an air cooled system and the card overclocked to the maximum setting in Catalyst Control Center, 769/1053MHz, he managed to achieve some quite impressive scores. The results in 3DMark 03 has to be one of the highest single card scores we've seen, if not the highest.
3DMark 03: 94,110 points

He also ran a 3DMark 06 benchmark, and even though it's not the highest single card score we've seen, it must be one of the highest with a completely air-cooled system.
3DMark 06: 24,909 points
The overclock of the card is limited by the the lack of software tools and nothing else.

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Pictures and source: NordicHardware

;)

//Andreas

thanks for the info ! :up:

Here are the test results


http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...27asus_iso.png


3DMark06: 24909
3DMark03: 94110

amazing results! i wonder if the price is amazing to :)

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Pictures and source: NordicHardware

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//Andreas

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I like how it's "completely air-cooled" while using Water Cooling on the GPU's.

Would be a good upgraders card if they can make it support RV7xx MXM modules when they're available.

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I like how it's "completely air-cooled" while using Water Cooling on the GPU's.

Would be a good upgraders card if they can make it support RV7xx MXM modules when they're available.

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Referring to the system apart from the graphics card, but you got a point ;)

//Andreas

It's looking good, thank god they picked up the 512mb ram variant

Any game benches?

The design looks really bad. They should design it like the 3870X2, make all threee cores on a single PCB, then it can be air cool and it'll be cheaper to make.

Wow, I didn't know the 9770 could go 4.6ghz on air. :shrug:

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Wow, I didn't know the 9770 could go 4.6ghz on air. :shrug:

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lol


I think they should just release the main Crossfire card w/out the 3850s.
Sell it for $50, and then just sell laptop cards for super cheap.

I still think this won't be cheap.

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I think the design is superb. They have taken mobile cards and put them right on a mainboard. This will save many $ on development and production.

nV should have thought of that, dont they have mobile versions too like this?

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8800M GTX is only 96 shaders though, but that's probably enough to compete with the 3850.

source; http://www.nordichardware.com/news,7559.html

Kinc has served us with some benchmarks with the card, using an air cooled system and the card overclocked to the maximum setting in Catalyst Control Center, 769/1053MHz, he managed to achieve some quite impressive scores. The results in 3DMark 03 has to be one of the highest single card scores we've seen, if not the highest.

He used a system based on the ASUS Rampage Formula X48 with an Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 overclocked to 4.6 GHz (11x419).

pic1 (http://www.nordichardware.com/image3.php?id=4798)
pic2 (http://www.nordichardware.com/image3.php?id=4799)

This card is in a unique position. It looks to be geared toward enthusiasts (although its performance probably will be surpassed by 2*3870, 3870 X2, 9800GX2). However, with this poor water cooling design, what enthusiast would want to put this in their loop? It is also ugly beyond belief. Not selling. :down:

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This card is in a unique position. It looks to be geared toward enthusiasts (although its performance probably will be surpassed by 2*3870, 3870 X2, 9800GX2). However, with this poor water cooling design, what enthusiast would want to put this in their loop? It is also ugly beyond belief. Not selling. :down:

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Only a concept and to the E-penis competition

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Only a concept and to the E-penis competition

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Really?

reading through this post let me know that theres lots of ATI haters out there, who by the sound of it would only like 1 gpu maker ....when will you learn that competition make our hardware prices drop and lets gpu designers take there finger out there a$$......:poke: :with:
fair play to asus for looking at different angles :shrug:

if these come out @ a reasonable price, i'd get one

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if these come out @ a reasonable price, i'd get one

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I'm not 'hating' on them. I just think it'll be really expensive.

I too would buy one, as I am getting close to getting a new card.
But having the 9600 in the $130 range doesn't help that matter.

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I'm not 'hating' on them. I just think it'll be really expensive.

I too would buy one, as I am getting close to getting a new card.
But having the 9600 in the $130 range doesn't help that matter.

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totally understand u - tbh, i bet my bottom dollar they'll be too expensive too :D :up:

I wonder when Eddy will have a block ready for this card? :P

thats like a pretty good joke DAAMIT

3 mxm's on an interposer w an external water cooler

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thats like a pretty good joke DAAMIT

3 mxm's on an interposer w an external water cooler

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Joke or not, this single card got better 3dm03 and 3dm06 scores than
9800GX2 in Quad-SLI and 9800GTX in Tri-SLI. So I think the joke is on
nv, who think they can get by with re-releasing a reworked card again.

Derek: if the heat-exchanger is cooled, where the heatpipes lead, then
it might not be as difficult.

I still think this is a proof-of-concept that CF scales well and Tri-Fire
works, and this will not see mass production. However, it may pave
the way for future designs.

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Joke or not, this single card got better 3dm03 and 3dm06 scores than
9800GX2 in Quad-SLI and 9800GTX in Tri-SLI. So I think the joke is on
nv, who think they can get by with re-releasing a reworked card again.

Derek: if the heat-exchanger is cooled, where the heatpipes lead, then
it might not be as difficult.

I still think this is a proof-of-concept that CF scales well and Tri-Fire
works, and this will not see mass production. However, it may pave
the way for future designs.

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Did it really? That's pretty neat (sorry I find it hard to remember which cards get what score).
I kinda think that this card doing so well could probably be due to the drivers.

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Joke or not, this single card got better 3dm03 and 3dm06 scores than
9800GX2 in Quad-SLI and 9800GTX in Tri-SLI. So I think the joke is on
nv, who think they can get by with re-releasing a reworked card again.

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Are you sure about this ? I too get +/-92K and 24K with a Qx at 4.5 on an 780i with 8800GTS 512 in SLI and not really time to test anything ( ram/dividers/drivers)... and the fact remains clear 3dmark is nice but shows to me only potential what the card can do, but (eg due to bad drivers) this doesn't reflect in game performance sometimes...

It's a nice card but I doub it will be produced in high numbers and could be very costly too... but nice creation Asus :up:

It has been reported that this is a proof of concept card, and is not intended to go to retail, so I think price speculation etc is all a bit pointless. Unless anyoen here has more credible info saying otherwise?

From CustomPC:

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Asus has released a few photos of the card to show off its efforts, but Iain Bristow from Asus UK told Custom PC that it’s ‘not going to be released as a retail product.’ According to Bristow, the card was put together in an office and connected to a water-cooling block to say: ‘look what we can do, because we’re amazing engineers.’ And who can blame them? Only ten have been made, according to Bristow.

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CustomPC article

VR-Zone tested the ASUS EAH3850 Trinity
H1 '08 Multi-GPU Battle: ASUS EAH3850 Trinity, EAH3870X2 and XFX GeForce 9800 GX2

I thought it was never meant to go into production so why bother benching it?

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Why not?

It would likely have driver issues, and wouldn't be king of the hill in terms of preformance, but its amazing to me that Asus have just gone out and done this.

If it can be produced at a reasonable price (though not likely to start with) it would be amazing to see what they can do with this idea in regards to using 3870, or maybe even doing something like this with NV.

They should do a 'GX2', sandwich two 3870 X2s.

;)

Then get AMD to do driver support for four of those. :rofl:

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Then get AMD to do driver support for four of those.

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If it were feasible, they would have done it by now.



That an awesome looking card. I bet you'd get many 'what the hell's...' from your friends. It'd take two months pay to buy that thing...

Heh, I posted about this two weeks ago. Hardly anyone batted an eye. :rolleyes::rofl:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=187214

It'll be awesome if they can do something like combine 3 of these with nvidia cards, and get 3x3 SLI. :eek: Or something a little more feasible, 2 GPUs and 1 physics processor, and mix and match how you please. :)

If you have a capable motherboard, you can just get 3 x club 3d overclocked 3850s for £70 each = £210 for tri 3850s.