Asus shows off triple GPU graphics card

Posted at: 6:07am 25th March 2008 by Ben Hardwidge

Asus EAH3850 Trinity features three Radeon HD 3850 GPUs on a single graphics card

While working at a Taiwanese tech firm has got to be had work, it’s good to see that the engineers at Asus occasionally get to try their hands at something fun too. The latest engineering feat to come from Asus is the EAH3850 Trinity, which goes one step further than the Radeon HD 3870 X2 by featuring three whole GPUs onto a single card.

The card features a huge PCB that’s 300mm long, and sports three mobile Radeon HD 3850 cards – two on the back and one on the front. Despite the large number of GPUs, though, the chips’ low power requirements mean that the card only needs a single eight-pin PCI-E power connector.

Asus has released a few photos of the card to who off its efforts, but Iain Bristow from Asus UK told Custom PC that it’s ‘not going to be released as a retail product.’ According to Bristow, the card was put together in an office and connected to a water-cooling block to say: ‘look what we can do, because we’re amazing engineers.’ And who can blame them? Only ten have been made, according to Bristow.

However, Asus revealed a similar feat of engineering when it put together the EN7800GT Dual, and that card even made it to the production line, so the Trinity may see the light of day yet.