Asus Mars

by **impar** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:44 am

Greetings!

ASUS Designs Own Monster Dual-GTX 285 4 GB Graphics Card

ASUS has just designed a new monster graphics card that breaks the mold for reference design GeForce GTX 295, called the ASUS MARS 295 Limited Edition. The card, although retains the name "GeForce GTX 295", same device ID, and is compatible with existing NVIDIA drivers, has two huge innovations put in by ASUS, which go far beyond being yet another overclocked GeForce GTX 295: the company used two G200-350-B3 graphics processors, the same ones that make the GeForce GTX 285. The GPUs have all the 240 shader processors enabled, and also have the complete 512-bit GDDR3 memory interface enabled. This dual-PCB monstrosity holds 32 memory chips, and 4 GB of total memory (each GPU accesses 2 GB of it). Apart from these, each GPU system uses the same exact clock speeds as the GeForce GTX 285: 648/1476/2400 MHz (core/shader/memory).

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by **daglesj** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 3:26 pm

Lol and I was about to say "they'll sell maybe a dozen of them!"

But it looks like they may well sell 500 as its 1000 limited edition. The other 500 will be put aside for warranty returns and review/engineering samples. :lol:

by **krips** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 10:08 pm

These things will probably retail for some astronomical price of $1000, and it 18 months, you'll be able to get a much higher efficiency, similarily performing car for $200. :roll: