I have bought many Asus cards since Diamond went out of business simply because they are well designed and put the pedal to the metal. The only problem with non-reference designs are that water blocks are difficult to come by and I suspect this will be the same with this expensive card.
These RoG items are marketed to a different crowd where price isn't to important. I would consider buying one of these for my Feeding Frenzy project just because I like things that are different from the run of the mill parts. However, if you wait a few months you can probably get one for 1/2 this price. :)
How many TFLOPs and memory bandwidth does this card process? The GXT 295 processes 1.8T FLOPs and 220 GB/s. The HD4870X2 does 2.4TFLOPs and 230 GB/s, respectively.
I missed the 4870X2 Crossfire and GTX295 SLI performances in the charts to compare.
bonkers folding power 17k and 35k, but the price of these cards and the lacking performance (drivers should fix that) in some cases not what i would get
did any one notice it uses 2x8 pin Power connectors (would of thought you notices that on front page)
Asus are only making 1000-1500 of these card if i last checked
Hmm, didn't you guys use to test graphics with a core i7 920 at 3719 MHz? What happened to that CPU? :) And an utterly pointless card is the Mars, I have no idea what justified the 2 in the value or, 8 in the performance for that matter. A card at £1000 that performs so close to 4870x2 should really get a 6 or smth. :)
Originally Posted by Top Nurse However, if you wait a few months you can probably get one for 1/2 this price. :)
I beg to differ. This is a limited series of 1000 cards, I don't think price will drop much if at all over time. Hell, look at the Voodoo 5 6000! You still pay a lot of money if you want to get one of the last 30 that still work.
Originally Posted by Kris Hmm, didn't you guys use to test graphics with a core i7 920 at 3719 MHz? What happened to that CPU? :) And an utterly pointless card is the Mars, I have no idea what justified the 2 in the value or, 8 in the performance for that matter. A card at £1000 that performs so close to 4870x2 should really get a 6 or smth. :)
Surely the Performance score should only be for performance? This card as roughly as fast as a GTX 285 and that scores 8/10 for performance, therefore so should this card. Gauging performance vs price is more about value for money, and we have a component score for that (which also takes into account Features such as noise, size etc.)
A 2/10 for Value is, in the words of our own score guide, Terrible. 1/10 would be Pathetic, which we felt was one step too far. After all, the card can play most games at 2,560 x 1,600 with 4x AA. A 2/10 for Value seemed the fairest description to us.
Comes with a free power station to power the beast. I see on the 1st heat graph on p9, you've written 'Mard SLI.' Unfortunately, it seems that's only too true in most cases.
Originally Posted by Kris Hmm, didn't you guys use to test graphics with a core i7 920 at 3719 MHz? What happened to that CPU? :) And an utterly pointless card is the Mars, I have no idea what justified the 2 in the value or, 8 in the performance for that matter. A card at £1000 that performs so close to 4870x2 should really get a 6 or smth. :)
Surely the Performance score should only be for performance? This card as roughly as fast as a GTX 285 and that scores 8/10 for performance, therefore so should this card. Gauging performance vs price is more about value for money, and we have a component score for that (which also takes into account Features such as noise, size etc.)
A 2/10 for Value is, in the words of our own score guide, Terrible. 1/10 would be Pathetic, which we felt was one step too far. After all, the card can play most games at 2,560 x 1,600 with 4x AA. A 2/10 for Value seemed the fairest description to us.
That kind of validates my point in a way - score for performance should be just for performance. But, if one card that costs 3 times less scores 8 and achieves similar performance, why not then give this card a 10? or, if we consider value too, 5 due to the nature of the card itself. Or, if a GTX 285 scores an 8, shouldn't all the cards that are lower performance also score lower? I can't imagine you guys doing a review of let's say radeon 4770 and giving it a performance score of 5 :)
Anyway, I think I am getting too detailed and the discussion is now more about your grading than your reviews.
What do you guys think about the Driver Heaven review of this card though? They seemed to drool all over it with performance data to back it up. A kind of a discrepancy... Mind double checking this card with the CPU over clocked to the max and windows 7 installed to 'calm the mind'? :)
I'm thinking that performance can't be gauged just as performance especially since there are other cards to factor in.
I'm thinking that BT compares the card with other cards performance. Seeing as this is marginally better and obscenely more expensive, the performance value would be lower.
wtf.. one thousand pounds?????? It would be wonderful if where not tragic!!! I am not impressed with this expensive sandwich, but with its price! We can see in the charts it is not the most powerful gpu engine in the world, processing "only" 2,2 TFlops, against 2,4TFlops from 4870X2 and 1,8Tflops from GTX295, and has nothing beyond than a satisfactory memory bandwidth: 265GB/s.
Driver issues or not, I have to admit that, analyzing the chart numbers and the awful preliminary sli results, it can be surpassed by ATI's card in non limited platform titles tests.
So what is the reason for this price? Is Asus creating a million pounds found for any electoral campaign or something like that?
C'mon Asus, you are in trouble if you don't start making your own drivers....
How woul such a prime card like that compare to a 1.5GB NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800, PCI-E 2.0 (x16)????
Can they actually be compared? how woul that be, specially in folding. It would be interesting to see how it would compare cause the newer gtx card are getting much more aggressive and powerfull like the 3d supercomputer gpus????
Originally Posted by Top Nurse I have bought many Asus cards since Diamond went out of business simply because they are well designed and put the pedal to the metal.
People will buy this card...for the same reason Apple are still thriving - if you can pursuade someone to spend £1800 on a PC with a 24 inch screen, a basic core2duo and an old GPU, you can pursuade them to buy a crazy ltd edition graphics card.
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ReplyThese RoG items are marketed to a different crowd where price isn't to important. I would consider buying one of these for my Feeding Frenzy project just because I like things that are different from the run of the mill parts. However, if you wait a few months you can probably get one for 1/2 this price. :)
I missed the 4870X2 Crossfire and GTX295 SLI performances in the charts to compare.
did any one notice it uses 2x8 pin Power connectors (would of thought you notices that on front page)
Asus are only making 1000-1500 of these card if i last checked
waiting on 5800s to see performance vs my current 8800 ultras in sli
Not found a game that can really tax them to this day at the resolution i game at (1,920 x 1,200 on hd tv)
Surely the Performance score should only be for performance? This card as roughly as fast as a GTX 285 and that scores 8/10 for performance, therefore so should this card. Gauging performance vs price is more about value for money, and we have a component score for that (which also takes into account Features such as noise, size etc.)
A 2/10 for Value is, in the words of our own score guide, Terrible. 1/10 would be Pathetic, which we felt was one step too far. After all, the card can play most games at 2,560 x 1,600 with 4x AA. A 2/10 for Value seemed the fairest description to us.
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That kind of validates my point in a way - score for performance should be just for performance. But, if one card that costs 3 times less scores 8 and achieves similar performance, why not then give this card a 10? or, if we consider value too, 5 due to the nature of the card itself. Or, if a GTX 285 scores an 8, shouldn't all the cards that are lower performance also score lower? I can't imagine you guys doing a review of let's say radeon 4770 and giving it a performance score of 5 :)
Anyway, I think I am getting too detailed and the discussion is now more about your grading than your reviews.
What do you guys think about the Driver Heaven review of this card though? They seemed to drool all over it with performance data to back it up. A kind of a discrepancy... Mind double checking this card with the CPU over clocked to the max and windows 7 installed to 'calm the mind'? :)
I'm thinking that BT compares the card with other cards performance. Seeing as this is marginally better and obscenely more expensive, the performance value would be lower.
wtf.. one thousand pounds?????? It would be wonderful if where not tragic!!! I am not impressed with this expensive sandwich, but with its price! We can see in the charts it is not the most powerful gpu engine in the world, processing "only" 2,2 TFlops, against 2,4TFlops from 4870X2 and 1,8Tflops from GTX295, and has nothing beyond than a satisfactory memory bandwidth: 265GB/s.
Driver issues or not, I have to admit that, analyzing the chart numbers and the awful preliminary sli results, it can be surpassed by ATI's card in non limited platform titles tests.
So what is the reason for this price? Is Asus creating a million pounds found for any electoral campaign or something like that?
C'mon Asus, you are in trouble if you don't start making your own drivers....
Can they actually be compared? how woul that be, specially in folding. It would be interesting to see how it would compare cause the newer gtx card are getting much more aggressive and powerfull like the 3d supercomputer gpus????
Say what? http://www.diamondmm.com/
ya Im with you lol we still buy diamond cards from time to time at our work but our primary cards we purchase are from ASUS.
You know what would be neat to see just for kicks is if ASUS made a 4890x2 2gb Card
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