ASUS EAH3850 Trinity Triple GPU Video Card

Scar1.8T said:
It looks like essentially 3 mobile cards (MXM or something... if forget) all plugged into a big host board. I remember someone doing something like this a while back with 2x ATI GPUs. Just an awesome card though, I love the 4x DVI!
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so the board is an MXM to PCIe interface? Then in theory, wouldn't this make the card upgradable if a beefier MXM module came out? (I say in theory because MXM modules are next to impossible to find)
 
NKDietrich said:
What exactly is the point of this card? I cant imagine 3x3850s performs terribly well in games, and this cooling will make it so expensive than I bet it would get owned by an Nvidia solution at half the price. I doubt this card will ever be released.
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3850s are just downclocked 3870s, so if it comes as an "OC" version it could pretty much end up a 3870X3... which would do reasonably well at the ~$450 mark, assuming a /substantial/ factory OC. Odd they didn't just call it a 3870 though.Makes me wonder about clock speed/cooling issues.
 
n1ce_hat said:
COMPARE to a 8800GTS? A PS3 can hardly play games in 1080p let alone anti-aliasing. I you ran your 8800GTS at 1280x720 like the PS3 & Xbox 360 normally run at and turned off the AA and whatnot, you would see how embarrassing the power of the PS3's RSX GPU really is.

No console beats a PC for graphics these days (unless you are using a 13" CRT and are blind in one eye...).
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Oh, I completely agree. I was just baffled by the comment stating a quad GPU machine is "beat" by consoles. I thought I would put my experience in there just to show I have a console and a fairly high end PC to compair, and that I have seen first hand how ridiculous that comment was. There is no comparison, PC all the way.
 
I think I took the wrong link, I'm looking at what seems to be a frigate with DVI ports. :(
 
What a.... bad idea. All these video cards eating more and more electricity. It's nuts. The next thing to happen to video cards will be a push for energy reduction.
 
Why don't we see any multi-core GPU's yet. Every card that has more than one processor, is just a couple single GPU's onto a card. I would like to see a couple cores on a single die. It'll cut down on latency between processors.
 
Darkest Daze said:
Why don't we see any multi-core GPU's yet. Every card that has more than one processor, is just a couple single GPU's onto a card. I would like to see a couple cores on a single die. It'll cut down on latency between processors.
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The 9800GX2 beats the 3870x2 + 3870 so 3x 3850s is no where near the 9800GX2 but if the price is right, it could be a awesome card. Get two and you get.. HEXCRoSSFIRE :D
 
homernoy said:
Oh, I completely agree. I was just baffled by the comment stating a quad GPU machine is "beat" by consoles. I thought I would put my experience in there just to show I have a console and a fairly high end PC to compair, and that I have seen first hand how ridiculous that comment was. There is no comparison, PC all the way.
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yeah, n1ce hat can't follow the flow of conversation on message boards. I understood what/who you were responding to.
 
lloydxd said:
The 9800GX2 beats the 3870x2 + 3870 so 3x 3850s is no where near the 9800GX2 but if the price is right, it could be a awesome card. Get two and you get.. HEXCRoSSFIRE :D
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Unfortunately you'd get zero performance increase over a pair of 3870X2s because DX10 only supports 4 framebuffers and the current implementations of CrossfireX and SLI require a framebuffer for each GPU.
 
I also agree that this is a proof of concept experiment. Even if it were to reach the store shelves, I'd much rather have the Sapphire dual-GPU water-cooled 3870X2 being a single slot card instead.
 
Get rid of the extra Slot header, make it a single slot solution, put 4 of them in a Spider board. 12 core :p

Mind you cost would probably be about 2 grand in video cards alone, and finding a game that can scale to 12 would be daunting but it would sure increase the e-penis I'm sure.
 
Azhar said:
It's still early in the race. There aren't many multi-GPU games out there yet. Give SLi and Crossfire a chance and it'll eventually show up, same with multi-core processors.
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Yup, things move slow in the computer industy, how many years and OS changes did it take?

Multi-GPU has been done for decades in other markets and is heading more mainstream every day. I doubt Mom & Pop will ever have an SLI rig but there was a demo of an onboard video running in crossfire with a add on board.

When they can refine the drives so it's transparent then things will really take off.
 
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