Tuesday, January 26th 2010
ASUS Designing Dual-HD 5870 Graphics Accelerator?
ASUS is known to toy with bleeding-edge technology to give out high-end products. Earlier, ASUS put two GeForce GTX 285 GPUs into one accelerator to give out a custom-design product that outperformed NVIDIA's dual-GPU GeForce GTX 295. According to o.v.e.r.clockers.at, ASUS might be doing something similar, this time around with AMD's Cypress GPUs in its Radeon HD 5870 avatar. It is said to be working on a dual-HD 5870 graphics card, codenamed "Ares".
While the dual-GPU Radeon HD 5970 uses full-featured AMD Cypress GPUs (with all its stream processors and memory bus width available), ASUS will attempt to use the one disparity between an HD 5970 and two HD 5870 to its advantage: clock speeds. The Cypress GPUs in HD 5970 feature lower clock speeds (725/1000 MHz core/memory) compared to the single Cypress GPU on the HD 5870 (850/1200 MHz). Electrical constraints are probably the reason behind this. It is likely that ASUS will use stronger VRM circuitry to power the two GPUs to run at higher speeds, while also providing some overclocking headroom.
AMD in a recent conference call to the press said that it didn't expect to see custom-design HD 5970-like accelerators till Q2 2010, although we don't infer there to be any sort of restriction in place, as was the case with NVIDIA and its GTX 295. Ares is likely named after the Greek God of warfare by the name. An apt successor to Mars (which also happens to be the name of the Roman God of war), ASUS' previous attempt at an extreme high-end graphics card of its own design.
Source:
o.v.e.r.clockers.at
While the dual-GPU Radeon HD 5970 uses full-featured AMD Cypress GPUs (with all its stream processors and memory bus width available), ASUS will attempt to use the one disparity between an HD 5970 and two HD 5870 to its advantage: clock speeds. The Cypress GPUs in HD 5970 feature lower clock speeds (725/1000 MHz core/memory) compared to the single Cypress GPU on the HD 5870 (850/1200 MHz). Electrical constraints are probably the reason behind this. It is likely that ASUS will use stronger VRM circuitry to power the two GPUs to run at higher speeds, while also providing some overclocking headroom.
AMD in a recent conference call to the press said that it didn't expect to see custom-design HD 5970-like accelerators till Q2 2010, although we don't infer there to be any sort of restriction in place, as was the case with NVIDIA and its GTX 295. Ares is likely named after the Greek God of warfare by the name. An apt successor to Mars (which also happens to be the name of the Roman God of war), ASUS' previous attempt at an extreme high-end graphics card of its own design.
44 Comments on ASUS Designing Dual-HD 5870 Graphics Accelerator?
100w Idle is fine with me!
:laugh:
:slap:
Isn't 5870 like 200W? Is 2x 8-pin gonna be enough, or have they been super-binning their gpus?
:cry:
lets translate "Asus is going to overclock the 5970, call it something else, and charge you twice as much"
yay all made possible by the delay of fermi.
Asus : $$$$$$$$
The consumer : "top of the line" card to extend E-Peen :toast:
Now if Asus wanted to bet the bank and put 4 x Cypress chips on a single card, I would pay much more attention.
Otherwise, it won't make sense.
And just to make it clear: I won't even think of buying this card, I just find it cool.
People have beem dreaming with that for how long? 6 years?
When it comes from ATI or nVidia (hydra already doubles the memory in multi-gpu configurations), it'll come like a blast.
Rest assured, shared memory between GPUs won't come in a "special edition" card, unless Asus puts a Hydra 200 in the card itself (highly unlikely).
Is this new asus model going to come bundled with a 1000watt PSU :laugh: