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?
Eyefinity 6 is an absolutely RIDICULOUS assumption to be making. It is virtually impossible.
In which case, all it will have is 2GB. Which means it will have as much extra worth as the 1.7G GTX 275's.
Watch your reputation, BT.
-Boost the stock fan profile to make it quite a bit more aggressive, possibly change the cooling solution.
-clock the gpu's and memory to 5870 speeds and use 5870 voltages
-make a list of power supplies that can safely provide enough power while eclipsing the 300w mark OR add another 6 pin and call it a day.
2gb per gpu I'd like to see and can probably be done with relative ease, just to cement it being the worlds fastest, don't want that card running out of Vram anytime soon :)
Even though what I stated (I think) could quite easily be done (perhaps even simply with a RBE bios mod), ASUS being ASUS will probably make this card completely non-reference and completely insane.
If it's even made.
An overclocked 5970 gives you the performance of two 5870's out of the box.
This product is meaningless, aside form the RAM.Well, I stand corrected. Interesting.
It just simple doesn't make sense in regards to bandwidth transferred from the PCIe slot and the card itself. If it were, the 5870 would have triple DVI, and better support for monitors on its HDMI/DisplayPort outputs.Yes, yes, illuminating.
Not that it wouldn't cost another 200$ in Mini-DP to DVI/HDMI converters.You are threatening the entire equilibrium of the PC graphics market, BT.
If Eyefinity6 only exists on 'MARS' then it is virtually extinct.
You simply don't understand my simple point.
Yes, it is a great card. It has two GPUs, 4GB of RAM, a red plastic mesh on its cooler.. but that can be done by ANY manufacturer.. it is NOT supposed to be a 'MARS' top-of-the-line product that only millionaires can afford.My points are absolute and infinite. They are more important than anything, and you agree.
My TPU! membership.. that is something that no one can take away from me. I have been here for 5 years.. I know everyone here, except they don't recognize me anymore.. TPU has my heart and I have its heart.. and that is something that can never be taken away from me. So, for someone like you, to think so highly of yourself while being such an awful jerk.. you are the opposite of TPU, and you are what is wrong with it.
Then again, seeing W1z's thank down there.. oh, how TPU has fallen. Where have all the Zekherminators gone, indeed.
who do you think changed your banned account's email address to "unused_******z44@walla.co.il", so you could use it to register a new account here?
That has to be the lowest OC by % on a card I've seen to date, whereas this Ares card should completely stomp a stock 5970, just like two 5870's do.
That thing would have 3 8-pin connectors and sound like a 787, but still -- it'll finally make up for the quad-GPU Voodoo5 never getting to market. :P
www.nordichardware.com/news,10644.html
www.nordichardware.com/news,10642.html
this made my day :laugh::laugh:
i'm just curious how good and more efficient the cooler will be. i hope the pic in those links isn't what the cooler is gonna look like, i was hoping for a badass look.