The world’s fastest water-cooled dual R9 290X gaming graphics card
ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today announced the limited-edition Ares III, the world’s fastest water-cooled gaming graphics card with a slim, single-slot form factor.
With two AMD Radeon™ Hawaii XT R9 290X GPUs at its heart factory-overclocked at 1030MHz, and boasting 8GB of GDDR5 memory with a clock speed of 5000MHz the Ares III is said to beat Titan Z by about 15% in Firestrike Extreme benchmark and gives around 33% better frames in Battlefield in 4K/UHD resolution.
Apart form that the Ares III boasts some exclusive features like
Hand Crafted Slim EK Water-blocks
Digi+ VRM with black metallic capacitors and 16-phase Super Alloy Power
ROG-themed GPU Tweak and live streaming utility
| SPECIFICATIONS | |
| Model name | ARESIII-8GD5 |
| Graphics engine | AMD Radeon R9 290X x2 |
| Bus standard | PCI Express® 3.0 |
| OpenGL® | 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 cable1 x AMD Radeon Gold Reward game coupon2 x G1/4 threaded fitting1 x ROG 8GB USB flash drive |
| Software bundled | ASUS utilities and driverGPU Tweak |
| Dimensions | 5.67 x 11.81in |
Ares III Gallery
Availability and pricing : we are still waiting on this info, will be updating all of our readers as soon as we get the India specific information.
