14 DAY TRIAL // Asustek is reportedly working on a new graphics card offering in the EAH3850 series. Codenamed "Trinity", the new solution will pack three graphics processors in the ATI RV670 family and promises to take over Nvidia's GeForce 9800 GX2 highest-end offering.
According to Finnish tech site Plaza, the card will come with three graphics core produced by Nvidia's Arch-rival AMD. The company's graphics engineers managed to pull together the three 55-nanometer RV670 GPUs using MXM graphics modules from notebooks, linked by the graphics manufacturer's CrossFireX technology.
Each of the three MXM modules will host a single RV670 graphics core and an unknown amount of memory per chip, although the estimations claim that each core will be served by 512 MB of GDDR and a 256-bit memory interface. Two of the MXM modules will be seated on the back side of the PCB, while the third one will be laid out on the front side. It is for sure that the card will be taking up two slots, as shown in the attached pictures.
The PCB comes with an additional 8-pin power connector to supply the necessary juice to all three graphics cores. The GPUs are cooled using an innovative combination of aluminum heatsinks, copper heatpipes and a closed-circuit water cooling system.
The graphics behemoth from Asustek features four DVI outputs, that will surely appeal to the multi-monitor enthusiasts. However, at this development stage, there is no high-definition digital output, but the card is still in the "proof of concept" stage and will surely need more time until it is fully baked.
It will hopefully come with either a HDMI or DisplayPort interface, although the latter is more appealing to AMD, as its graphics card received the official certification from the VESA group last week.
There are no details about the chips' clock speeds or retail availability yet.
