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hi just read about the Asus EAH3850 X3 Trinity, seen the world’s first benchmarks of triple-GPU card and im not very impressed to say the least, doesnt seem to be 3x times faster than a norm ( single gpu) 3850 or even twice as fast, looks like we still will ...

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11th Apr 2008, 15:28

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hi just read about the Asus EAH3850 X3 Trinity, seen the world’s first benchmarks of triple-GPU card and im not very impressed to say the least, doesnt seem to be 3x times faster than a norm ( single gpu) 3850 or even twice as fast, looks like we still will be better off with nvidia 8800s or 9800s
Asus Hd3850 X3 Trinity if you want a look

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mabye if they used nvidia instead of ati....

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mabye if they used nvidia instead of ati....

Nothing to do with it. Multi-GPU is inherently not efficient. This is why a properly OC'd 8800GT can get similar performance to simply SLI-ing another one.

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