After treating the enthusiast community to the Republic of Gamers (ROG) ARES Dual HD 5870 graphics accelerator, ASUS isn't wasting any time is designing its successor, referred to (for now) as "MARS II". This graphics accelerator uses two NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 (GF100) GPUs on one board, that's right, the first dual-GPU accelerator based on GF100, which is dreaded for its thermal and electrical characteristics so much, that NVIDIA is content with having the second-fastest graphics card in the market (GTX 480), with no immediate plans of working on a dual-GPU accelerator.
ASUS' ambitious attempt is in the design stage deep inside its R&D, where the design is in an evaluation state. The R&D gave us some exclusive pictures of the MARS II PCB to treat you with. To begin with, the card's basic design is consistent with almost every other dual-GPU NVIDIA card in recent past. There are two independent GPU systems, each with its own VRM and memory, which are interconnected by an internal SLI, and connected to the system bus by an nForce 200 bridge chip. On this card, two GF100 GPUs with the same configuration as GeForce GTX 480 (GF100-375-A3) are used, each having 480 CUDA cores, and connecting to 1536 MB of GDDR5 memory across a 384-bit wide memory interface.
ASUS' innovations kick in right from the PCB, since it takes a lot of effort to keep such a design electrically stable, as well form an overclockers' product. MARS II uses a PCB with 3 oz copper layers to increase electrical stability, and used a strong VRM. Each GPU system is fed by an 8+2 phase VRM of its own, which use a new Super Alloy choke that reduces core energy loss. The card takes its power input from three 8-pin power inputs, which are fused.
The card is quad SLI capable, and can pair with another of its kind (and probably single GTX 480s). To cool this monstrosity, ASUS is coming up with a beefier than ever cooling solution. With the product being still at an evaluation stage, how long it will take to reach production, or whether it will in the first place, remains to be seen.作者: Cherbim 时间: 2010-7-16 21:22
提示: 作者被禁止或删除 内容自动屏蔽作者: Al@n 时间: 2010-7-16 21:23
电源厂再一次泪流满面……感受到来自NV的神光……作者: cfz45 时间: 2010-7-16 21:24
提示: 作者被禁止或删除 内容自动屏蔽作者: 2ndWeapon 时间: 2010-7-16 21:25
怪物。。。。。作者: 歪歪贼 时间: 2010-7-16 21:26
买一块主板,然后插在显卡上..作者: gz_easy 时间: 2010-7-16 21:26
ASUS想干嘛,MARS II vs ARES。作者: 785g 时间: 2010-7-16 21:27
提示: 作者被禁止或删除 内容自动屏蔽作者: micko 时间: 2010-7-16 21:29
我眼珠子在地板上滚啊滚。。。作者: nfsking2 时间: 2010-7-16 21:30
个人认为,这张卡叫Mars II真是太谦虚了
应该叫Pluto才对作者: 阿·飞 时间: 2010-7-16 21:37
这卡上市应该改名叫“电源危机”………………作者: konakona 时间: 2010-7-16 21:39
好大的PCB。。长度超过30CM了吧。。。。电源机箱一起悲剧作者: 逆火 时间: 2010-7-16 21:40 这个世界真疯狂作者: guhouli 时间: 2010-7-16 21:42
电源厂商笑了作者: 我酷故我在 时间: 2010-7-16 21:46
华硕V5,草民膜拜作者: aaa777ly 时间: 2010-7-16 21:48
看着密密麻麻的一排排,再看看两个核心,这是要挑翻战神?作者: LockheedMartin 时间: 2010-7-16 21:48
提示: 作者被禁止或删除 内容自动屏蔽作者: prankfree2 时间: 2010-7-16 21:53
疯了。。。坐等看beefier than ever的散热器是何等壮观的。。。作者: PaulWong 时间: 2010-7-16 21:58
华硕总是喜欢不断超越,凸显自己老大哥的地位。作者: kulanyee 时间: 2010-7-16 22:00
The card is quad SLI capable作者: 3118595 时间: 2010-7-16 22:07