Asus' ROG Ares II: Four Dual-GPU Graphics Cards, Compared

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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.

Igor Wallossek
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Igor Wallossek wrote a wide variety of hardware articles for Tom's Hardware, with a strong focus on technical analysis and in-depth reviews. His contributions have spanned a broad spectrum of PC components, including GPUs, CPUs, workstations, and PC builds. His insightful articles provide readers with detailed knowledge to make informed decisions in the ever-evolving tech landscape