ASUS to Launch ARES III Dual Chip Hawaii Card at Computex

For those waiting for a dual Hawaii-based graphics card you might not have to wait that much longer. ASUS is planning to launch their custom built ARES III Hawaii-based card at Computex 2014. The ARES brand is ASUS’s custom built dual-chip graphics lineup based on AMD GPUs.

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The ROG ARES III graphics card would feature two Hawaii XT cores, each with 2816 stream processors, 176 TMUs, and 64 ROPs. This gives you a total of 5623 stream processors! The ARES III is said to feature a custom PCB much like the one on the ARES II, which featured dual Tahiti cores. The ARES II had a PCB design that featured a 20 phase VRM. Three 8pin PCI-Express connectors were required to power the card and the TDP was around 500W. The card was cooled with a custom loop hybrid cooler.

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The ARES III card would feature 8GB of GDDR5 memory compared to the 6GB on the ARES II. The memory will run across a 512-bit interface. The clock frequencies core the and memory are not mentioned, but we should expect this card to be overclocked out of the box.

ASUS only makes a limited number of ARES cards (usually only $1000). The ARES II sold for $1600 so we can expect the ARES III to sell for somewhere around that. Expect to see this card between Q2 of 2014 and Computex.

Source: VR-Zone | News Archive

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