Thread: ASUS is working on a dual version of the HD 5870 graphics

As is recognized, the business Asus likes to cooperate with the sophisticated technology as well as produce the most highly developed end-products. Earlier Asus graphics cards together in couples GeForce GTX 285, creating a graphics card, which makes a more dual-chip solutions nVidia GeForce GTX 295. The source reports that this moment Asus can do somewhat comparable with the GPUs AMD Cypress, taking as a basis Radeon HD 5870. According to the source, Asus is operational on a dual-chip adaptation of the HD 5870 below the code name "Ares".

Although the two-chip video card Radeon HD 5970 makes use of a full-featured graphics chip AMD Cypress, with its universal processors, memory and bus width, Asus will try to use only essential difference between HD 5970 and HD 5870: the clock frequency. In HD 5970 graphics processors Cypress operate at lower clock speeds, 725MGts core and 1000MHz memory, whereas taken separately GPU Cypress on the HD 5870 operates at frequencies 850MGts and 1200 MHz respectively. Most likely, this was caused by technical limitations. It is likely that in a future video card Asus developers try to use a more powerful power and allow the two processors operate at higher frequencies, and leave some leeway for overclocking.

AMD has in the last press conference, said that she does not expect to hit the market with non-reference HD 5970 design, at least until the second quarter of 2010, however, more specific chip maker declined to provide. Probably, Ares is named in honor of the god of war, Mars, also known as Ares, in whose honor Asus has already called its high-performance solutions.