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ASUS to Announce GTX 595 ARES Mars on Computex 2011

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ASUS might be upto something big , According to German Media reports the manufacturer will be releasing another ASUS ARES Mars GPU on Computex 2011. The card would feature Dual GF-110 Cores (GTX 5** Series) but would be called “GTX 595 ARES Mars”.

You may wonder what’s the 595 for? Well, Reports reveal that unlike the GTX 590 it would feature a much faster clock rate of 875MHz, 1700MHz, 4800MHz for Core/Shader/Memory respectively which are insane clocks against the GTX 590′s 607Mhz and 772 Mhz of the GTX 580. Considering the above clocks, The card would be real hot and ASUS may have to re consider putting those insane clocks for the final release as GTX 590 being one hot card already fails during overclocking.

The card would feature the ASUS Ares Mars heatsink like the one posted below, ASUS may consider to replace the copper blocks with improved vapor chambers for better thermal environment for the card. Its also likely that dual 3GB versions of the GTX 580 which were recently released may be used in the card. These are a few details we know yet, Maybe a press release is held during the Computex 2011 event next month.
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http://wccftech.com/2011/05/18/asus-announce-gtx-595-ares-mars-computex-2011/
 
Bet it costs a ton and by the time it comes out we'll be starting to see info on the new nVidia and AMD cards for next series.
 
Rroff said:
Bet it costs a ton and by the time it comes out we'll be starting to see info on the new nVidia and AMD cards for next series.
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Yup, unfortunately both the dual cards came WAY after the single release cards, which instantly impacted their value.

4870x2, right after the 4870 launch and before 1gb 4870's were available, while also cheaper, awesome value card.

875Mhz sounds ambitious though and likely incorrect, not least because Nvidia likely wouldn't want a what, over 40% faster version of the card being available. Nvidia really are complete donkeys, skimping on VRM's and making a ludicrously slow version. £40 more on proper components and they'd have had a killer card.

We're fast approaching times for first tape outs of the next gen chips which will be when the leaks start happening and talk of needing respinning, or being way faster than they expected, or just bang on time start coming out.

Very few people would buy a £800-1000 card when new cards are less than 3 months away.
 
Not aware of anything other than nVidia saying they are on schedule and on target for performance.

BTW don't get confused by the performance hype for kepler, this is measured compute performance per watt and can't be used directly to indicate gaming performance.
 
Just trying to plan my new build which will be happening December time when I return from 4 months somewhere not so nice, always use Nvidia cards (I guess this might make me a fanboy) so I am interested to see what they have got up their sleeve.
 
Don't know how they can justify the price of these cards by the time they hit the shelves they're usually old tech or very close to being.
 
drunkenmaster said:
875Mhz sounds ambitious though and likely incorrect, not least because Nvidia likely wouldn't want a what, over 40% faster version of the card being available.
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arent the mars cards usually
a) very expensive (the £1000 figure mentioned before sounds about right)?
b) very limited edition (something like only 100 or 1000 cards)?

doesnt sound like it would be a huge thorn in nvidias marketing strategy, although ill be surprised if those kind of clocks ever happen...
 
N00bbuilder79 said:
LOL, no sadly not, somewhere with a little bit of sand.
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HMS Open Prison Southampton.

I would have thought a card like would be pulling 600 watts at load (sounds like 2x 580's on one board and a 580 pulls 300 w + despite what nvidia says), can you shift that much power with just an air cooler?
 
mmj_uk said:
Don't know how they can justify the price of these cards by the time they hit the shelves they're usually old tech or very close to being.
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I doubt they really intend to sell many, it's just a marketing exercise. Get's people talking about ASUS on forums, associating them with high end, column inches in magazines etc.
 
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