ASUS ARES III 8 GB Dual-GPU Hawaii Graphics Card

I want one! With quad 8-pin power would be amazing

 

Hmm... considering a single 290x has a tdp of about 300w and runs really hot to begin with... anyone who buys this new dual 290x card should probably also buy a fire extinguisher and perhaps some marshmellows.

 

Hmmm, Perhaps its time for an upgrade at last, my original Ares 1 is still going strong... thats why I havent needed to upgrade yet

 

they really are the best company in the world when it come to components..period

 

Nah, that's what liquid cooling is for. I'd be more concerned about the hit to your power bill.

 

I doubt it would reach that even under load, my 780 works on a 400watt psu under load just fine with loads of other **** drawing power. My PSU died and I did plan to just use this old thing as a temporary solution, however it is coping just fine.

I just ignore wattage now.

 

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/asus_ares_review,2.html
My Ares has a tdp of 349W so its a power drop for me if i get it lol

 

Ah, that takes me back, miss my 5970, good card, for the time. But this monster though, you're gunna need serious cherry picked dies.

 

Solid cards, a testament to Asus engineers, its still going strong after all this time, never lets me down, BF4 All ultra 2xmsaa and still get 60-90fps depending on map occasionally drops to below 60 on intense firefights but still a beast

 

You can't love the components...But i would need my own power plant, maybe a small nuclear power plant ;D

 

Sorry, but I had to...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5YJsMaT_AE

 

well, considering all that dp is coming from 2 dies, it shouldn't be that bad.

 

So, this isn't REALLY 8GB, it's 4GB per core. While that is still good, that's a little misleading. One of the reasons I don't like doing crossfire/SLi is because, to my understanding, the memory isn't combined, it's just simply distributed. But if you're playing a game, the problem is both cards basically contain the same information in their memory, so a large % of the total memory is going to waste. If you're running a GPGPU task that can take advantage of both cores, I'm sure the memory distribution would be a lot more efficient, since both cores don't share the same task. This is where I feel things like having a dedicated GPU for physx is nice, because you're maximizing your VRAM efficiency.

 

Dual gpu cards have been advertised this way for a very long time.

 

i'm not sure why this issue hasn't been resolved so far. for sli yes, i understand that there are certain limitations. you can't just use another video card's ram without imbalancing the performance of the cards.
but for dual gpu cards..? that should be more straightforward. and i refuse to think that they haven't thought about this.

 

I'm pretty sure I read somewhere Mantle will be able to use both cards VRAM in crossfire? Hopefully Mantle will be adopted widely

 

...............A sniper shot from AMD's ARES :

--------------:book: :biggun:-----------------------

 

Mantle was there only to push MS to do something more with DX, sadly.

 

HIlbert you have listed the TDP in your comaparison chart from a standard HD5970 the Ares 1 has a tdp of 349w source : http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/asus_ares_review,2.html