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Asus' ROG HD 5970 Ares detailed

by on25 February 2010

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High factory overclock

Asus' special edition custom Radeon HD 5970 card, also known as the ROG Ares, has finally been detailed and pictured (although just a render) over at muropaketti website. According to their info, the successor to Asus' Mars will feature quite a factory overclock and should easily become the fastest card that money can buy.

Asus' dual GTX 285 Mars Limited Edition was quite an interesting card and has stirred quite some attention despite its ridiculously high US $1670 price tag. As you may already know, Asus is working on ROG Ares, a similar card, but based on the Radeon HD 5970 dual GPU solution.

According to the info, the card will be as custom as it can be. It will feature a total of 4GB of GDDR5 memory, two for each GPU, paired up with a 2x256-bit memory interface. The memory will be clocked at 4800MHz, a 400MHz more than on regular HD 5970. The card has a total of 3200 Stream processors and a core clock of 850MHz. Bare in mind that the reference card was clocked at 725MHz in order to keep the thermals and the power consumption at acceptable levels.

In order to feed this beast, you'll need two 8-pin and one 6-pin PCIe power connector so before you go shopping for one, first check your PSU. The cooler is designed from scratch, and in order to cool those two overclocked GPUs, Asus' will use a large 100mm fan paired with eight copper heatpipes and a large heatsink. Guys at muropaketti claim that it will even be quieter than the reference HD 5970 and that it will score somewhere around X14100 points in 3DMark Vantage, almost 30 percent more than the reference card.

The precise launch date hasn't been revealed and neither was the price, although we can be sure that it will not come cheap.

You can find more here.

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Last modified on 25 February 2010
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