As many of you probably would ask, the answer is yes, it does play Crysis relatively well. However, in all honesty we expected better, more linear scaling overall. As a reference point, in our Company of Heroes testing, a single Radeon HD 3850 would score somewhere in the neighborhood of 37 FPS at 1280x1024 with 4X AA, whereas Trinity scores nearly 55 FPS. That's a 48% increase in speed but three times the GPU horsepower thrown at the task. In reality, this quick and dirty triple-GPU showcase from Asus probably suffers more from lack of driver optimization than anything else; that and probably a shortage of PCI Express bandwidth and latency over the on-board switch.
Regardless, it's interesting to see this implementation come together and we wonder about the practicality of it moving forward. Think about a single slot card today that could possibly be upgraded in the future just by sliding a module in, thus leaving your other slots open for future functionality. In all candor of course, a product like most likely won't see the light of day for Asus but it's certainly interesting to see it in action.
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