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Asus EAH3850 X3 Trinity, world’s first benchmarks of triple-GPU card
It’s a world-first graphics card, with 1.5GB of RAM and three Radeon HD 3850 GPUs, but does Asus’ engineering side-project actually work? We put the EAH3850 Trinity through its paces to see what three GPUs get you in today’s games
CONCLUSION
Either way, the Asus EAH3850 X3 Trinity has failed to impress us, whether it’s going to become a retail part or not. AMD/ATI and Nvidia want us to believe that the future of PC gaming lies in multi-GPU systems, but the Trinity, as well as Nvidia’s 3-Way SLI technology, shows that there’s still a lot of work to be done before we should now start considering single-GPU systems with the same scorn as single-core CPU PCs.
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Poor ATi support with Multi-GPU in games? Surprise surprise..
Comment by C7ouD at 3:11pm 14th April 2008
GOOD EXPERIMENT,but in reality if this goes on sale nobody can afford it except for people with fat wallets.i got a 8800gt and im glad that the price is lower and affordable with great performance.
Comment by SEYKYU at 10:20am 14th April 2008
GOOD EXPERIMENT,but in reality if this goes on sale nobody can afford it except for people with fat wallets.i got a 8800gt and im glad that the price is lower and affordable with great performance.
Comment by SEYKYU at 10:20am 14th April 2008
Is the main card generic? i.e. could you plug in any MXM mobile cards?? If so, plug in 3 of the fastest MXM cards you can find and try the benchmarks again! I suppose they would have to be ATI cards?
Comment by maniacOverclock at 6:47pm 11th April 2008
I believe the highline of the first first graphics card with 1.5 Gb of RAM , look at the nvidia quadro's you can get a verison with 2Gb of RAM XD
Comment by AaronPcz at 10:46am 11th April 2008
You would have to be a mug to use multi gpu graphics. Most present games will not take advantage of the potential power. Reason, coders write for the majority who don't have fat wallets. Hell it is only in the last 9 months to a year that some games have started taking advantage of multi-core processors.
Comment by alexmackie1 at 10:03am 11th April 2008
Another potentially good product, only to be let down by poor driver back up....AGAIN!!....What clown is running the show?!
Comment by marcus at 3:56pm 10th April 2008
What a horrid, pointless card. Thumbs up to Asus though for experimenting.
Comment by C7ouD at 2:38pm 9th April 2008
Wouldn't that be a decent, and cheaper, alternative to the 8800M; the HD3850 certainly isn't a slow card in the world of laptops and notebooks.
Comment by Assassin8or at 8:05am 9th April 2008
it's probably due to the custom-made mobile design of the boards more than driver versions. It is disappointing to see those results but Asus have at least tried something innovative and original with the form factor and idea itself. I don't know what they could do to make it perform better...maybe they do and are working on it who knows?
Comment by EdArch at 2:00am 9th April 2008
ATi to sue Asus for creating custom mobility radeon cards that support three cards on a desktop platform. ATi's legal representative stated that this project constituted a "vile misuse of the companies products in a way which they are not intended to be used". Asus responded by saying they are "just having a bit of fun and trying to push the boundaries of technology. The move has prompted backlash on their user forums shortly after which ATi said "oh all right then go ahead and o it. We just haven't had time or resources to test this kind of setup ourselves". The case continues...
Comment by EdArch at 1:47am 9th April 2008
It's a great shame it wasn't up to much especially in COD4 where Crossfire really shines. I'm getting over 80% scaling by using a 3870 and 3850 in COD4 and similar results in 3Dmark and Crysis runs well at 1680x1050 with many settings on high (AA causes issues). I can't see there is anything wrong with the driver/OS setup - I'm using exactly the same and on the same system with a dual boot XP/Vista32bit SP1, Vista with CCC 8.3 actually gets a higher 3Dmark score than XP with CCC 8.2 which is the fastest release for XP overall.
Comment by combatus at 9:40pm 8th April 2008
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