Reviewers Liked
- Wins every performance contest, Good cooling, Looks that can kill, Headroom to overclock
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Available only upon order, Deliberately premium priced
Asus Radeon HD 5870 Ares 4GB GDDR5
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Expert reviews and ratings
By APC Magazine
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File this one under the "more money than sense" category. The ARES arrives in a luxurious aluminium case that looks like it should be housing launch codes rather than an expensive gadget, which undoubtedly contributes to the record-breaking price tag....
By ITP.net
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If you’ve got the cash and the power supply the ARES will blow you away with its benchmark busting DirectX 11...
By Atomic MPC
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Expensive, exclusive and powerful, the Ares is a card we’d follow into...
By PC Advisor
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If price is your first consideration, this isn't the card for you. You have to accept the Asus Ares for what it is: a premium, limited-edition offering. But you get exceptional performance, build quality and exclusivity. This feast of a graphics...
By PCWorld India
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Ares, the god of war, can now reside inside your desktop computer. Meant for those who want simply the absolute, in terms of performance and be pampered by their graphics card, the Asus Ares is the last word in PC graphics cards today. It stands head...
By HardwareZone.com
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As we expected, the ASUS Ares is comparable to twin Radeon HD 5870 cards in CrossFireX (once you factor in the drver differences) and significantly quicker than the Radeon HD 5970. Hence, the Ares is easily the most powerful and fastest single...
By APC Magazine
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We recently watched an episode of Top Gear where some maniac had squeezed a Lamborghini engine into a VW. It's obvious that the engineers behind the ARES video card have similar inspirations. The ARES is the definition of overkill and excess; those...
By HardOCP
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There is no doubt about it: The ASUS ARES is a damn cool video card. We can say that it is currently the fastest video card on the planet. If you want the fastest single card offering, this is it, no question. It is big and impressive looking. The...
By Hardware Canucks
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Before reading any further, we’re going place a warning right here and now: this is one heck of a long conclusion. When you’re talking about a $1200 product, there’s a lot to say and that goes doubly for the ASUS ARES. Nonetheless, there...
By PC Games Hardware
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Graphics beast Review of Asus Ares: A divine name, two fully flavoured Cypress GPUs and three power connections: The Asus Ares is a real 3D monster. PC Games Hardware is testing the 1.200 Euro king among the video cards. Video cards that are named...
By Tom's Hardware UK
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Asus' new ARES immediately earns bragging rights as one of the fastest single graphics cards ever created. We put the beast through a gauntlet of tests to measure this product's true power. At the end of the day, we answer whether it's worth...
By HotHardware
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Summarizing the Asus ARES' performance couldn't be any easier. Quite simply, the Asus ARES is the fastest graphics card we have ever tested. The ARES' combination of dual-Radeon HD 5870 GPUs and 4GB (2GB per GPU) of fast GDDR5 frame buffer...
By 01Net
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Il y a deux mois, Asus nous présentait enfin la carte graphique Ares. Devant nos yeux grands ouverts et notre mâchoire décrochée, est apparu un magnifique parpaing de 2,1 kg, chargé en processeurs graphiques et modules...
By AwardFabrik
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Extrem! Mit diesem Wort lässt sich die ASUS ARES beschreiben. Keine Grafikkarte zuvor kam in einem größeren Karton. Keine Grafikkarte zuvor war schwerer. (Fast) keine Grafikkarte für den Consumermarkt war teurer oder schneller....
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