THE FASTEST GRAPHIC CARD ON THE MARKET ASUS ARES II

In this post I want you present a new graphic card that ASUS made. The graphic card is called ARES2-6GD5. This graphic card has hybrid thermal design which dissipates heat equal to 600W with two slot air and liquid cooling. This is the first card which is 13% faster and 31 C cooler performances than reference GTX. Acclaimed DIGI+ VRM joins superior quality 20-phase Super Alloy Power for precise digital control, enhanced performance, reliability, and card longevity. GPU Tweak: modify clock speeds, voltages, fan performance and more, all via an intuitive interface.

The ROG ARES II brings extreme graphics using dual Radeon HD 7970 GPU’s and a massive 6GB GDDR5, all in standard 2-slot height. This is currently the fastest card available on the market. It introduces hybrid cooling which means that uses air and liquid cooling for relentless stability. It’s power is controlled by DIGI+VRM and SUPER ALLOY power components with easy GPU Tweak card tuning.

As I mentioned before since the card has 2 GPU’s and 6GB of memory it is 13% faster than GTX 690 and 130% faster than HD 7970. 

Hybrid cooling makes this card for 31C cooler performance than reference GTX690. All-new innovation cools the world’s fastest graphics card, which fits in a 2- slot height. Dedicated liquid cooling for the dual GPUs joins a dust-proof fan that dissipates heat from critical components to knock temps down and increase stability.

ARES2-6GD5 is built with carefully-designed massive 20-phase power delivery, unmatched by any other graphics card for the ultimate in performance and spectacular power delivery. This ensures ample room for experimental performance tuning, as its DIGI+ VRM digital voltage regulation design augments precision overclocking capabilities, which are further supported by the use of hardened Super Alloy Power capacitors, chokes, and MOSFETs. These components are forged under extreme pressure and temperatures to increase reliability, power output, and overall card lifespan while eliminating bothersome choke buzzing noise, unlike much tamer reference cards. All these and more enable the absolute best in overclocking potential and experience.

This card comes with graphics overclocking tool that shows detailed specification and actual card status with GPU-Z. Has a monitoring widget that provides real-time detailed multi-parameter information, and automatically checks and updates drivers and BIOS versions.

This is the specification list for this graphic card:

·         Graphics Engine

AMD Radeon HD 7970x2

·         Bus Standard

PCI Express 3.0

·         Video Memory

GDDR5 6GB

·         Engine Clock

GPU Boost Clock : 1100 MHz
GPU Base Clock : 1050 MHz

·         Memory Clock

6600 MHz ( 1650 MHz GDDR5 )

·         Memory Interface

768-bit

·         Resolution

D-Sub Max Resolution : 2048x1536
DVI Max Resolution : 2560x1600

·         Interface

DVI Output : Yes x 1 (DVI-I), Yes x 1 (DVI-D)
HDMI Output : Yes x 1 (via DVI to HDMI adaptor x 1 )
Display Port : Yes x 4 (Regular DP)

·         Power Consumption

up to 500W3 additional 8 pin PCIe power required

·         Accessories

1 x CrossFire cable
3 x Power cable
1 x DVI to HDMI adaptor

·         Software

ASUS Utilities & Driver
ROG GPU Tweak

·         ASUS Features

Fan Sink
Super Alloy Power

·         Note

Card: 11.8" x 5.5" x 1.8"
Radiator: 4.6" x 5.8" x 1.9"
Radiator Fan: 4.7" x 4.7" x 1"
Tube: 13.4"

● Support for six simultaneous displays may require complementary products compatible with DisplayPort 1.2 Multi-Stream Transport.

The benchmark made by OCLab.ru gained score on 3d mark03: 283017. For this test the have used the following components: Intel Core I7-3770K, ASUS Maximus V Extreme and 2x ASUS ROG ARES II in Cross-Fire X. For more details about this test please visit: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm03/6492935

According to review made by Guru3d the results are as follows.

For the full review of this graphic card please visit:        

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/asus_ares_ii_2_review,1.html

 Two of these graphic cards in CrossFire X need 951W that is just too much, while single card need 430W. All in all this is brutal graphic card that offers extreme graphics but still too expensive because it cost exactly $1500. If you want to build monster computer that will provide you with extreme graphics and performance than this will be a right card for you.