ASUS Announces the ROG ARES III dual R9 290x limited addition
The ASUS ROG ARES III will be the first single-slot ARES card to date. ASUS has gone with a full-coverage waterblock instead of the bulky liquid cooler that is on the reference R9 295X2 or even previous ARES cards. This card will not come with a pump or anything like that, you will need you own water cooling loop to run this card.his ultimate water-cooled graphics card runs 25% cooler than the reference R9 295X2. Under the Fire Strike Extreme benchmark, ROG Ares III runs 15% faster than GTX Titan Z. In 4K Ultra High Definition (3840x2160) resolution, it runs Battlefield 4 at an incredible 33% greater frame rate.
The card will be clocked at 1030 MHz with the 8 GB (4 GB per GPU), clocked at the reference 5 GHz (effective) clock speed. The ARES III will only have 3 display connections which include DVH, HDMI and DisplayPort. The card is expected to be released sometime in the 3rd quarter of this year.
Asus ROG Ares III Specifications
| Model name | ARESIII-8GD5 |
| Graphics engine | AMD Radeon R9 290X x2 |
| Bus standard | OpenGL 4.4 |
| Video memory | 8GB GDDR5 |
| Engine clock | 1030MHz |
| Memory clock | 5000MHz |
| Memory interface | 512-bit x2 |
| Digital max resolution | 4096 X 2160 |
| DVI output | 1 x Native Dual-link DVI-D |
| HDMI output | 1 x Native HDMI |
| HDCP compliant | Yes |
| DisplayPort | 1 x Native DisplayPort 1.2 |
| Adapters/cables bundled | 3 x Power cable 1 x AMD Radeon Gold Reward game coupon 2 x G1/4 threaded fitting 1 x ROG 8GB USB flash drive |
| Software bundled | ASUS utilities and driver GPU Tweak |
| Dimensions | 5.67 x 11.81in |
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