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If you are looking for the fastest graphics card around and don’t mind dropping $1200 to get it, ASUS has the fix for you. Their latest graphics card takes the reference design of the HD 5970 and increases the on-board GDDR5 memory up to 4GB, adds dual HD 5870 graphics cores each clocked at 850MHz, and a custom made cooling solution to create a product that will blow through any game with ease.
The new graphics card is part of the high-end R.O.G series and comes with the name ARES. If you know your Greek mythology, Ares was one of the twelve Olympians, son of Zeus and the god of war. Asus must have thought it only makes sense to name one of the most powerful graphics cards in the world after such a strong god.
This graphics card has been rumored for some time, and many have waited in anticipation to see exactly how it will perform. Today all the questions will be answered as we put the ASUS ARES HD 5970 graphics card through our testbed of games and benchmarks. So, will this limited edition ultra high-end graphics card be worth the $1200 asking price? Keep reading if you want to see how this beast will perform!
Interesting to see how one would compare to 2 separate 5970's in crossfire too.
Still nice review and wow that card is huge.
At least for 1200$ you don't just get a flimsy box.
grav, regarding the comparison between this and two 5870s, i think they might have similar performance, but either way, id still get that over this 5970 any day. hell, id get a third 5870 too. apparently they scale well.
Also, it doesn't have a VGA port. It has an HDMI,DisplayPort and DVI-D port. The picture did have a blue cover over the DVI-D port though.
I imagine it's mainly for outputting to 2 (can it handle more?) video outputs at high resolution each?
If anybody has this card, I'm sure they have 3 high res monitors.
I have to wonder if they're splitting the names between the brands;
ATI = Greek
NVIDIA = Roman
Would make since, seeing as how the ARES is an HD 5970, while the MARS was a GTX 295.
But hey, don't forget that these R.O.G. brand cards have a second purpose; they also serve as space heaters.
By the way, I may be wrong, but isn't the 5970 simply two 5870's in one card, making the Ares, in effect, 4 5870's in the card with, reflective of the 4GB's of video ram?
No it is still just 2 HD 5870's combined. The on-board memory and clock speeds are increased though, which will yield better performance.
That is an insane video card though.