According to a report from VR-Zone, ASUS might be working on a custom built ARES III Hawaii-based dual-GPU graphics card which could be ready to launch at Computex 2014, scheduled to kick off on June 3rd 2014.


ASUS generally launches its Ares and Mars custom dual-GPU graphics cards based on AMD and Nvidia GPUs and although these are usually somewhat slower than Crossfire or SLI solutions, they do have their own advantages as well and the upcoming ASUS ROG ARES III should be based on two Hawaii XT GPUs, which should pack some impressive performance punch. In case this report turns out to be true, we will be looking at a dual-GPU single-PCB graphics card with a total of 5632 (2816 per GPU) Stream Processors, 352 TMUs (176 per GPU) and 128 ROPs (64 per GPU).

AMD's reference dual-GPU graphics card based on two Hawaii GPUs is expected in Q2 2014 and although there have not been any solid specifications leaks, it is already known that it will carry the Vesuvius codename.

According to a report from VR-Zone, the upcoming ASUS ROG ARES III will feature a custom PCB which will be quite similar to the ROG ARES II graphics card which featured two Tahiti GPUs. In case you missed it, ARES II features impressive 20-phase VRM, three 8-pin PCI-Express power connectors and custom hybrid air+watercooling cooler.

The ASUS ROG ARES III will also packs a total of 8GB of RAM, 4GB per Hawaii GPU and a dual 512-bit memory interface.

In any case we are certainly looking forward to that beast and hopefully we will have more details regarding it pretty soon.



Source: Chinese.VR-Zone.com.