ASUS EAH3850 Trinity crams three Radeon GPUs onto one card

Forget FPS and polygon crunching, we want one of these ASUS EAH3850 just for its sheer logic-defying properties. ASUS really took AMD's CrossFireX multi-GPU capabilities and ran with them, stuffing a ludicrous trio of GPUs onto a single "concept" card. Three RV670 cores power the setup, and it's kept cool by some heatpipes and a water block. If your box doesn't implode in incredulity, that means you can power four monitors with the three GPUs, or power a single monitor with all four at once for some seriously serious World of Warcraft, though we'll have to wait for benchmarks to see how well this setup actually runs.

[Hazman Posted Mar 25th 2008 1:25PM]

So we've gone from cramming as many graphics cards on to a single motherboard as possible, to cramming as many GPUs onto a single graphics card as possible.
I guess that's miniaturisation in practice.

[sporkinum Posted Mar 25th 2008 2:07PM]

Once again.. this would be great for medical use. We run 4 monitors at high resolution for Radiology PACS use. Would be nice to only use one pci-e slot.

[xndrr Posted Mar 25th 2008 2:36PM]

yeah but it also takes up 2x 5.25" bays for the water cooling device.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 25th 2008 4:02PM]

I find this amusing as I am using the PACS system. Right now.

As far as I can tell though a standard, sub-$200 card runs the images smoothly on a dual monitor setup.

[FMinus Posted Mar 25th 2008 2:19PM]

Well at least their GPU solutions seem better as "we should just glue two cards together" nvidia one. The sockets could actually save a lot of space.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 25th 2008 5:15PM]

This is just starting to get ridiculous now.

[Wwhat Posted Mar 25th 2008 5:35PM]

4 times 3850, I wonder how many blu-ray/HDTV streams it can do at the same time.

[mattcoz Posted Mar 25th 2008 8:12PM]

Only 3 GPUs? The Voodoo 5 6000 laughs at this card.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 26th 2008 11:30AM]

Oh my God, it's full of stars...

[Zoroaster Posted Mar 26th 2008 1:23PM]

test

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 18th 2008 11:49PM]

MY GOD it is 3 pci-e notebook video cord all in 1