Tuesday, August 28th 2012
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ASUS ROG MARS III Dual GTX 680 PCB Pictured
ASUS' Republic of Gamers MARS III dual-GeForce GTX 680 graphics card may have been extensively covered at this year's Computex event, but very few have had a peek at its innards (PCB). Expreview posted pictures of the card's PCB, sourced from the manufacturer.
The pictures reveal an unusually long and tall PCB, which draws power from three 8-pin PCIe power connectors, a 21-phase VRM that uses Super Alloy chokes and driver-MOSFETs, PLX PEX8747 PCI-Express 3.0 x48 bridge chip, and of course the two GK104 GPUs with a total of 32 individual GDDR5 memory chips (16 for each GPU, 16 on each side of the PCB) wired to them, totaling 8 GB of memory.
Edit: We received an update from ASUS, clarifying that this card will not be released. The design was only displayed during a factory tour, to show ASUS craftmanship.
Source:
Expreview
The pictures reveal an unusually long and tall PCB, which draws power from three 8-pin PCIe power connectors, a 21-phase VRM that uses Super Alloy chokes and driver-MOSFETs, PLX PEX8747 PCI-Express 3.0 x48 bridge chip, and of course the two GK104 GPUs with a total of 32 individual GDDR5 memory chips (16 for each GPU, 16 on each side of the PCB) wired to them, totaling 8 GB of memory.
Edit: We received an update from ASUS, clarifying that this card will not be released. The design was only displayed during a factory tour, to show ASUS craftmanship.
25 Comments on ASUS ROG MARS III Dual GTX 680 PCB Pictured
I play Skyrim on a Single Screen at 1680 x 1050, 4x MSAA + 2x SuperSampling and i reach over 2700MB VRam.
So it all makes sense.
W1zzard proved it with some testing.
Sure it is overkill for single screen but are you really sure to play single screen while investing 1k+ in gpus?
This card is equivalent in efficiency to a tank pulling a trailor full of tanks.
anyhow, why would 4gb per gpu be an overkill? a card this powerful will run anything coming in the next 3 years, 4gb vram could be high end standard in that time. sure if you got money to burn on this, you got money to burn for every next gen of hardware but this card could be pretty future proof (as much as is possible for a graphics card anyway :ohwell:).
Too bad Asus' name is on it :shadedshu
anywho get sum!!!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkActgoyu-M
I think it's good that there is 4gb per gpu. Just as someone else pointed out, this overkill card will be powering/running an overkill monitor setup with some sort of massive resolution. Which is when the 4gb per gpu will come in handy, plus bragging rights for owners of this monster.
4GB per GPU = useful.
Products working as marketed/designed? NOPE. Customer support? NOPE. Warranty? NOPE. Accept item for firmware update that should have been done prior to release and cover expenses? NOPE. Well, we'll take it in for an update but you gotta pay both ways + labour. Send customer a functioning/tested card after sent in for Firmware RMA? NOPE. Exchange item for something that works? NOPE. Refund all fees incurred? NOPE. Refund purchse price? NOPE. Willing to work with customer to rectify issue? NOPE. Willing to work with BBB to help customer reach a resolution? NOPE. Tell customer to fock off without actually saying "Fock off"? YEP. BUT only after we get their $$$ :shadedshu :shadedshu
I could go on but what for? I used Asus for years without a single problem, then BOOM! Headshot :slap: