ASUS Ares CrossFireX does X27321 in Vantage - At stock clocks

[[NH]Woxxman]

Just gotten the first verified performance results from ASUS Ares. One of the new Radeon HD 5970 4GB cards coming out this quarter. You guys probably know most of the specs but I'll give you a quick low down.


Anyways we've gotten some new fresh nude pics of the card and last but not least, a 3DMark Vantage Extreme result.
Two of these babies (at STOCK clocks) have been paired with an air cooled Intel i7 980X CPU (4,5GHz) and it was enough to bring home the 5th highest score on the ORB in Extreme preset.



The system is said to be facing LN2 this weekend so we'll hopefully get some new WR results before next week. We'll keep you posted.

ASUS Ares CrossFireX showing god like performance - NordicHardware (Swedish, english version coming later today)

[saaya]

it will come out in 2 months? geez, wth is taking asus that long?
didnt kinc bench ares xfire a couple of weeks ago already?

[Expat GriZ]

Thanks for posting this up!! Now if only somebody would lend me a couple for a weekend...I bet they aren't going to be cheap....

Looking forward to the "cold" results!!

[[NH]Woxxman]

Well ASUS has of course done testing on these cards in house. But these are the first results that are public. And its showing pretty good promise.

[saaya]

so before it was asus ocing it inside an asus lab
now its asus ocing it outside an asus lab... thats all?

[[NH]Woxxman]

Yes that's correct. That's how it always works? :P

It's the first performance figures that people outside of ASUS labs have seen, what more do you want? Except two cards of your own ofc :P

[NH|Delph1]

In English, if it matters to anyone:
ASUS Ares benchmark

//Andreas

[Sn0wm@n]

whats the chip in the midle with ihs on ????

btw odd memory chip placement

[N19h7m4r3]

whats the chip in the midle with ihs on ????

btw odd memory chip placement

PLC chip from the looks of it, all X2's really had it.

[_d_]

the weight of the card, 3-4kg

[BobyTT]

GTX 480 with some OC on AIR



May be 3 SLI stock is going to be equal?

With the rig of my sig

[SoF]

it will come out in 2 months? geez, wth is taking asus that long?
didnt kinc bench ares xfire a couple of weeks ago already?

Yeah I saw running cards during Cebit at the ASUS booth and hoped they would come a month later or so.
If they really come that late I don't think there is a lot interest then. Maybe for Vram Junkies but I wouldn't know what to bench with that card - I'll take 2x5870 and have some fun with them instead Not to forget I can prolly get almost 3x 5870 for the price of one Ares

[Mungri]

theres only going to be 1000 of these made, same with the XFX and Sapphire versions.

[SoF]

That's not that much of a problem - AwardFabrik crew was able to test 3 different Mars so if we think it is a card that is good for some WR's we would surely get hands on it I am waiting for some more benches, then let's see if it is worth a try :

[vitchilo]

4 of those on LN2 + EVGA Sr-2 + 24 gigs ram DDR3 + 2 X5680 on LN2 : EPIC WIN

[gOJDO]

4 of those on LN2 + EVGA Sr-2 + 24 gigs ram DDR3 + 2 X5680 on LN2 : EPIC WIN

You mean EPIC electricity bill?

[snoro]

4 of those on LN2 + EVGA Sr-2 + 24 gigs ram DDR3 + 2 X5680 on LN2 : EPIC WIN

aqlso the fact that you would need a octo-crossfire special driver for that which dosent exist. A true wr breaker rig would be 2 980x on ln2 with some corsair gtx-2 memory kit and 2 of those card with 4 tek fatty ln2 pot. Now you have something interesting

[STEvil]

Nobody has tried using more than 2 dual-gpu cards that i've seen.

The problem really is the crossfire bridge. To get around it you need single gpu cards placed between the dual gpu cards so you can get away with only using single-link crossfire connectors. Whether it actually works or not has never been tested as far as I know..