Asus ARES - World's Fastest Graphics Card

[topgear]

It's Not A Radeon HD 5970. It's A Radeon HD 5870 X2 with 4 GB of GDDR5 Memory

Asus' new ARES immediately earns bragging rights as one of the fastest single graphics cards ever created. We put the beast through a gauntlet of tests to measure this product's true power. At the end of the day, we answer whether it's worth four digits.

Hers' The Package :

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The Freebie Mouse :

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The Card :

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and the OC :

First, the good news. The voltage tweaking feature of the SmartDoctor utility allows us to reach a stable 1003 MHz core speed and a 1275 MHz GDDR5 memory clock (5100 MHz effective) with the voltage increased to 1.3 V. Getting a Cypress GPU to 1 GHz+ is a difficult task for a single Radeon HD 5870, and even more so with a couple of Radeon HD 5870's in CrossFire. So, this result is extremely impressive and speaks to the engineering effort at Asus, from design to cooling.

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A little OCed result

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Power Consumption :

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Temps :

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Hold your breath - here comes the price :

$1200 - only


Source and Full Review

 

[hellknight]

Look at that monster.. that card is Super-Gorgeous.. too bad that ATI doesn't have proper computing apps to draw the full potential of this card..

 

[azzu]

Awesome card
Excellent Packaging too
"off to Make a plan for looting a Bank"

 

[gagan007]

This card is a beast!!! $1200 is apt for it
Liked the packaging too...never thought a graphics card could be shipped in a briefcase

 

[topgear]

This card is a beast!!! $1200 is apt for it
Liked the packaging too...never thought a graphics card could be shipped in a briefcase

even I've not

BTW, would like to see a review of thses cards in 2x CF mode or 3x and if possible 4x - what would be the power of those 8 GPUs combined with 16 GB of GDDR5 memory - I think a suitable application ATi guys should create to harness the maximum power out of these kind of setup