Sooner than expected, we’ve been served some more information about the prototype triple-core card from ASUS. Radeon HD 3850 Trinity will sport three RV670 cores, all on separate MXM modules. Last we reported we did not know the exact specifications of the card, but those have been unveiled today. The core clock is 668MHz and each core has 512MB GDDR3 memory running at 1656MHz, that’s a total of 1536MB (and 960 unified shaders if you want to get technical).
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Kinc has served us with some benchmarks with the card, using an air cooled system and the card overclocked to the maximum setting in Catalyst Control Center, 769/1053MHz, he managed to achieve some quite impressive scores. The results in 3DMark 03 has to be one of the highest single card scores we’ve seen, if not the highest.
He used a system based on the ASUS Rampage Formula X48 with an Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 overclocked to 4.6 GHz (11×419).
3DMark 03: 94,110 points
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He also ran a 3DMark 06 benchmark, and even though it’s not the highest single card score we’ve seen, it must be one of the highest with a completely air-cooled system. He changed the processor clock here for a higher bus instead, 4.55GHz (455×11).
3DMark 06: 24,909 points
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The overclock of the card is limited by the the lack of software tools and nothing else.
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