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Today at Computex the latest installment in the ASUS ARES series of limited-edition, Mega graphics cards has been announced, With ASUS claiming it is set to be the “world’s fastest” graphics card.
The dual-GPU Single Slot powerhouse is driven by two “hand-selected” Radeon Hawaii XT GPUs (R9 290X cores) with 8GB of GDDR5 memory. The card is overclockable according to ASUS, and will likely arrive factory overclocked as they claim it will be faster out of the box than the reference R9-295x2.
The ARES III features a custom-designed EK water block, so unlike the R9 295x2 the end user will need to supply their own liquid cooling loop to cool this Monster.
ASUS claims that the ARES III will “deliver 25% cooler performance than reference R9 295X designs“, but to achieve this ASUS “highly” recommends a high flow rate loop with at least a 120x3 radiator “to extract maximum performance from the card,” and they “will provide a recommended list of water cooling systems at launch”. We all know the R9 295X2 runs hot for a water cooled card, so expect its overclocked, cherry picked brethren to require even more cooling power.
Only 500 of the ARES III will be made, and they will be individually numbered. No pricing has been announced, but ASUS says to expect it to cost more than a 295x2 (£1100) - but less than a TITAN Z (£2400). The ASUS ROG ARES III will be available sometime in Q3 2014.
Source - PCPER
The dual-GPU Single Slot powerhouse is driven by two “hand-selected” Radeon Hawaii XT GPUs (R9 290X cores) with 8GB of GDDR5 memory. The card is overclockable according to ASUS, and will likely arrive factory overclocked as they claim it will be faster out of the box than the reference R9-295x2.
The ARES III features a custom-designed EK water block, so unlike the R9 295x2 the end user will need to supply their own liquid cooling loop to cool this Monster.
ASUS claims that the ARES III will “deliver 25% cooler performance than reference R9 295X designs“, but to achieve this ASUS “highly” recommends a high flow rate loop with at least a 120x3 radiator “to extract maximum performance from the card,” and they “will provide a recommended list of water cooling systems at launch”. We all know the R9 295X2 runs hot for a water cooled card, so expect its overclocked, cherry picked brethren to require even more cooling power.
Only 500 of the ARES III will be made, and they will be individually numbered. No pricing has been announced, but ASUS says to expect it to cost more than a 295x2 (£1100) - but less than a TITAN Z (£2400). The ASUS ROG ARES III will be available sometime in Q3 2014.
Source - PCPER
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