Pictures of an ASUS graphics card dubbed the MARS 295 Limited Edition have made their way online, and it's something of a monster.
Inside this big ol' beast lies a GeForce concoction unlike anything we've seen thus far. Despite its 295 branding, this isn't just a tweaked version of the GeForce GTX 295 introduced at the beginning of the year.
No sir, ASUS has opted to do something a little different and inside the MARS 295 Limited Edition, it's sandwiching a pair of GeForce GTX 285 PCBs (printed circuit boards). That's NVIDIA's fastest single-GPU, doubled, and connected invisibly via internal SLI.
But why stop there? Instead of using standard 1GB cards, ASUS is using GPUs equipped with 2GB apiece, giving the MARS 295 Limited Edition a total of 4GB of GDDR3.
Two 2GB GeForce GTX 285s in one package, so that's:
- Two 55nm GPUs clocked at 648MHz each
- A total of 480 stream processors, clocked at 1,476MHz
- 4,096MB of GDDR3 memory, clocked at an effective 2,484MHz and accessed via dual 512-bit interfaces
- 2,125 peak GFLOPS
- A peak fillrate of 41.47 Gpixel/s
Or, another way to put it, is to say it's stupidly fast. Get really imaginative and you should be able to put two MARS 295 Limited Editions side by side for some crazy quad-GTX-285-SLI action.
We reckon we'll see the card at next week's COMPUTEX, but we're in no hurry to find out pricing. The pictured card is denoted as "Limited Edition 1/1000". We presume, then, that ASUS will be making just a limited amount, and it'll charge a beefy premium for each and every one.
