Asus' ROG Ares II: Four Dual-GPU Graphics Cards, Compared
Earlier this year, Asus joined the extreme high-end graphics club with its own dual-Tahiti-based card, liquid-cooled and overclocked. You can't buy it anymore, but we got our hands on one and are adding it to our database of performance data.
Synthetic Benchmarks
3DMark 11
As mentioned, we're using an older driver on Asus' Ares II in order to draw fair comparisons to the other ultra high-end cards we tested previously. The Radeon HD 7000-series boards received a massive performance boost back when AMD released its Catalyst 12.11 package, allowing Tahiti-based products to compete with and often beat Kepler-based cards that were previously faster.
Asus' Ares II demonstrates that it doesn’t just outperform the competition on paper, but instead kicks off our testing by drawing ahead in two different 3DMark detail levels.
Unigine Heaven 2.5
We’re benchmarking these graphics cards using the highest resolutions and settings. Slower single-GPU boards cannot compete when it comes to these demanding combinations of resolution and graphics quality. They just aren't powerful enough.
Unigine Sanctuary
The finishing order stays the same. The Ares II pulls ahead a bit more due not only to its higher clock rate, but also its higher memory frequency.
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UltimateDeep I think you can get 2 690s or least 3 680s for the price of an ARES 2. The benchmarkers didn't evaluate Performance per watt, or Performance per dollar and the flipping size and length of each card which is the reason why I still stand by the GTX 690 in this article... For all these cards, all of that personally needs to be taken into consideration.Reply
I've nothing against the Dual 7970s but just want to let consumers be aware of the pros and cons especially the cards are not for the meek of wallet. -
dkcomputer Classic statement whenever you talk about AMD - "If only the software were better" or "When the software catches up" - how about "If only this component would be relevant when the software its made for exists"Reply -
PadaV4 So is the fps for radeon dual cards already divided by 2 or must the reader do it by himself?Reply -
ShadyHamster You can't buy it anymore, but we got our hands on one and are adding it to our database of performance data.
If you live in Australia and have a spare $1900 you can still get your hands on one.