Asustek's Three-GPU EAH3850 Cards Gets Full Specifications

Asustek's Trinity EAH3850 graphics card got its specifications earlier than expected. The tri-GPU graphics prototype surely raised a wave of interest among the tech enthusiasts around, and the hardware manufacturer fueled users' fantasies with the card's full specifications.

According to tech site Nordic Hardware, the Radeon HD 3850 Trinity will come with three RV670 cores placed on three independent MXM modules. The idea is not new at all and has been already used by manufacturers such as MSI in their early attempts at cramming the second graphics core on the same board. However, since dual-GPU cards have started selling just around the corner, it's time to pitch at the next integration level.

The graphics card's components are soldered on a huge, 300-millimeter PCB, that hosts the three mobile Radeon HD 3850 cards – two of them are placed on the back, while the third is soldered on the front side. Despite the unusual number of graphics cores, the card requires just a single 8-pin PCI-Express power connector to meet its electricity needs, as the three mobile graphics cores are optimized for energy-efficiency.

The EAH3850 Trinity card will sport a default core clock speed of 668MHz and 512 MB of GDDR3 memory running at 1656MHz per GPU. The card will come with 960 unified shaders and a total of 1536 MB of GDDR3 memory.

The overclocked version will reach core clock speeds of 769/1053 MHz and will allegedly score 94110 points in the 3DMark 06 benchmarking tests. However, the overclocking values are currently limited by software, and not by the card's hardware capabilities.

Unfortunately, according to Iain Bristow from Asus UK, the upcoming graphics card will not be available as a retail product. At the moment, Asustek's impressive three-GPU behemoth is just a proof-of-concept and only ten units have seen daylight so far.

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