ASUS shows off world's first on-board triple GPU solution; EAH3850 Trinity

[HEXUS]

Three onboard GPUs that provide a 139% speed improvement? Sounds tasty right? Well, there's a catch - it's only a concept.

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[lost eden]

You just know that some lucky guy at Asus will get to keep this for his own personal rig.

[Brewster0101]

More interesting is Asus have been working with Thermaltake on the cooling solution. Maybe we will see some interesting stuff come from the asus camp with Thermaltakes help

[Quantum-M]

Eh, I don't think it will bring any massive performance benefits if it comes to market. I mean, look at the multi GPU on card stuff from nVidia and AMD. They didn't perform as well as some people thought they would (well, the X2 did well for the price anyway) and the price for the 9800GX2 is almost hilarious.

Plus, the drivers need to be refined and refined again to get any advantage of these multi GPU configs.

Furthermore, many games are still no fully aware or take full advantage of Multi GPU configs or even multi core CPUs. How many years since we had multi GPUs? Like before VooDoo died? And we still have many games that see no performance gains, worse than expected, and some even fail to start.

I did thought multi GPU configs would have matured enough so that a majority of games did benefit from it for the prices of two or more cards. So far, I think it is failing. Not horribly failing, but I am not dancing around the latest CrossFire or SLi announcements.

If multi GPUs are ever going to deliver great performance gains for that price you paid, they'll need some serious design shifts in order to do that. Ridiculous power loads, heat, physical space usage, and large prices tags push me and many others out of the multi GPU ring.

[dangel]

I agree sir!

Can't wait for a 'proper' next gen part!