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Asus Rog Mars 760 coming

They've just doubled the numbers when in reality it will be two 256bit buses and not a single 512. Pointless card really, given the 690 is essentially a full fat version. Knowing Asus they'll charge the earth too.
 
By naming the 780Ti as such they left themselves with an option in the current war with AMD.. the 290 has been a star recently and with NVIDIA having to release the 780 Ti to get back on top spot having the option of releasing a 790 allows Nvidis to watch AMD and react.

What would AMD's response to a 790 be? A new 290? or a 300 series...
 
YES!

Been waiting for something like this to show up for a while, was hoping for AMD to do something like a HD7950-X2 as typically cards using two of the non top GPU's have always been cheap and good (3850X2, 4850X2, 9800GX2, GTX295, etc).
 
Fulax said:
Hopefully ASUS will price it reasonably.
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Yeah, fingers crossed...:rolleyes:
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Historically speaking, a double midrange GPU card HAS to be priced reasonably. Think about it, it will (estimating form specs here) perform in between the GTX780 and GTX780Ti, due to it technically having 2GB ram and the drawbacks of SLI it will HAVE to be cheaper than either or nobody sane will buy it.
 
Heh so that chart is pretty stupid. It either misleads or is wrong in 4 out of 6 lines.
Two of them by not understanding how memory works on dual-gpu cards, two of them by bolding the highest to highlight how awesome it is except it isn't the highest, drawing with the 780.
The text just mirrors the garbage in the table. :/
 
David Bisset said:
Heh so that chart is pretty stupid. It either misleads or is wrong in 4 out of 6 lines.
Two of them by not understanding how memory works on dual-gpu cards, two of them by bolding the highest to highlight how awesome it is except it isn't the highest, drawing with the 780.
The text just mirrors the garbage in the table. :/
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:confused:

The text is all bolded for the new card, because it's the new card, that's how it's always been done. As for the memory thing, it shows the total combined memory and bus width, which again is how it's usually done for multi GPU cards (the reader is supposed to know that a multi GPU card contains multiple memory buses and RAM sets).
 
Anyone saying it's got 4GB of memory is misleading people - saying 4GB (2*2GB) would be ok, but to be honest it should be made clear that this only gives 2GB usable. I don't really care if other multi-GPU cards were misreported in this fashion or not. Similarly with the bus width.
Edit3: Just checked the website and all the new dual-gpu cards sold on OCUK list the actual usable memory in their spec, with the doubled amount mentioned in the title.

You may well be right about the bolding on that site, 'normal' in comparison tables (if there even is such a thing) is to bold the highest/best value in a comparable row/column and if you want to make the talked-about one stand out you outline it.

Edit: As post 2 says it's a cut down 690 - I don't understand what's exciting about this?

Edit2: Actually I see no 690s up on the site for sale. I guess that makes a bit of difference?

Also OCUK staff: your nVidia Graphics Card blurb here says you sell 690's, probably should change that as well as updating the other mentioned cards, the 680 isn't the newest any more :)
 
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Anyone saying it's got 4GB of memory is misleading people - saying 4GB (2*2GB) would be ok, but to be honest it should be made clear that this only gives 2GB usable.
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AMD describe the HD7990 as 6GB, Nvidia describe the GTX690 as 4GB, it's just the way dual GPU cards are described, any enthusiast buying one is expected to understand how the RAM works.


MooMoo444 said:
I dont see the point of this card. It doesn't seem to be catering to any niche at all.
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Out of the box it will beat a GTX690, and it could (potentially) cost less than or equal to a GTX780, for people who game at 1080p it looks on paper like a sweet deal.
 
ubersonic said:
Out of the box it will beat a GTX690, and it could (potentially) cost less than or equal to a GTX780, for people who game at 1080p it looks on paper like a sweet deal.
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But in reality with it being a 'special' card, it'll carry a premium, and since they presumably wont be making many of them, it'll have further premiums.

It's probably not going to be good value.
 
ubersonic said:
AMD describe the HD7990 as 6GB, Nvidia describe the GTX690 as 4GB, it's just the way dual GPU cards are described, any enthusiast buying one is expected to understand how the RAM works.
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True, both companies advertising is misleading. However, that doesn't mean I would describe it this way to anyone, the same as I don't repeat any other companies adverts when reviewing them expect to perhaps compare actual performance to claimed.

Edit: Given how many people get this wrong on these forums I think expecting people to know without being clear is perhaps overly optimistic to be honest. Yes, of course you should research a product before you buy it and it doesn't take much research to find this out, but it doesn't help when people neglect this information (or auto-generated component comparison sites say the doubled number is twice as good :/)
Out of the box it will beat a GTX690, and it could (potentially) cost less than or equal to a GTX780, for people who game at 1080p it looks on paper like a sweet deal.
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I really must be missing something - out of the box it should be noticably worse than a 690?
 
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ubersonic said:
Out of the box it will beat a GTX690, and it could (potentially) cost less than or equal to a GTX780, for people who game at 1080p it looks on paper like a sweet deal.
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How?

GTX690:

3072 CUDA
256 TMUs
64 ROPs

"ASUS ROG MARS 760":

2304 CUDA Cores
192 TMUs
64 ROPs
 
Why do this? The Mars cards are not renowned for being cheap in any way, shape or form. To release a mid range card with 2 GPU's just seems Meh!

Now a 790 would be nice or even better, a 790 Ti :p
 
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