ASUS Trinity with Thermaltake Bigwater 760 is up and running.

Before we get started, here's what we have for our test setup.

We have prepared three gaming tests, together with a Futuremark 3DMark bench.

The ASUS Trinity in operation on one of VR-Zone's test beds.

The ASUS EAH3850 Trinity managed to edge out the HD 3870 X2 card, but still lags pretty far behind the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2.

* Note: The ASUS Trinity could not complete Futuremark 3DMark Vantage with the official ATI Catalyst 8.4 drivers. We had to re-bench it with the ATI Catalyst hotfix drivers that were specially released to address issues running 3DMark Vantage. The hotfix drivers are used exclusively for the 3D Mark Vantage benchmark as they in turn refuse to with properly for the 3870 X2, generating results that's worse than a single HD 3870 card... It's pretty evident that ATI is still having issues with their drivers but heck, not that any gamers will run 3D Mark Vantage often!

With the exception of the ASUS Trinity running on hotfix ATI Catalyst drivers for 3DMark Vantage, both ATI cards ran on the official ATI Catalyst 8.4 drivers for all the tests.

The synthetic 3DMark06 was never a playing ground for NVIDIA cards, which explains its lower scores. The ASUS Trinity still maintains a lead by besting the scores of the HD 3870 X2, and even those from the newer GeForce 9800 GX2 card.

Interestingly, the ASUS Trinity starts to lose steam when it comes to the real deal (real-world gaming). It lags behind the HD 3870 X2, and comparing it to the GeForce 9800 GX2 shows a performance deficit of approximately 50% at low resolutions. This can be attributed mainly to the low core clocks of the Trinity, along with issues on tri-CrossFire compatability.

Some ground is re-gained in World in Conflict, with the Trinity being able to match up with the HD 3870 X2 in the 1680 x 1050 and 1920 x 1200 runs.

Again, the Trinity falls behind the HD 3870 X2, but not by much, just like the Crysis benchmark.