ASUS is making a dual 760 card that looks pretty awesome. no price yet, but hopefully it will be priced reasonably. i mean, a 760 is $250. 2 of them would be $500. if they priced it at $400-$450..... that would be epic.
http://rog.asus.com/276632013/graphics-cards-2/faster-than-titan-rog-launches-the-mars-760/
This is really cool.
what would you guys say is an appropriate price for such a beast?
My initial thought was "that's a great idea!". But it cannot be priced too close to any GK110 cards. The 780 is already sub-400 in the UK. I'm not one for counting FPS, as I prefer a single card with wider capabilities.
If it did fall in the region of $450 in the US, it would be a good buy!
Thats pretty cool, I liked how they made a dual 7970, how awsome would it be if they jumped the gun and made a dual r9-290?
well, im more interested in the fact that the 760 MARS is a dual mid range GPU and that is may be priced competitively to that of just 2 760s. as far as a dual R9 290 card, that would probably be like $800+
people that have that kind of money for a graphics card probably already have 2 290s in crossfire already. a competitively priced dual 760 that has similar power to a titan may be worth it for upper-mid range card buyers.
if they get this thing out at $500..... it will sell.
if they get it out below $500..... it will sell like hotcakes, because SLI 760s perform pretty beastly. at least according to this video from newegg.
TinyTomLogan made a great overview on this card
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MchkfbAPg2k
It's not cheap but the performance is GREAT. Imagine putting 2 of these in one system. :)
IDK, I agree it is pretty awesome but at $500 it is 25% more than the RRP of R9-290 which with a non-reference cooler is probably a better deal, with similar performance and much needed extra vram (which we see being pushed in games like BF4, MetroLL, Crysis3, and even modified games like skyrim). Plus doesn't it still suffer from issues of SLI.
That being said and ignoring the issue of VRAM, and SLI it looks like it will still be a good deal for those whom are looking for a more reasonably priced upper-mid end nvidia soloution, and more choice is a good thing. However I don't particularly think a dual R9-290 is that unreasonable, many people were buying 780s for about the price of two R9-290s.
Not sure what to think of the benchmarks, the upper-mid end is getting pretty crowded, alot of cards in this segment offering very similar performance with much larger differences in price, with the 290(x) and 780TI/titan dominating the top of scoreboards with very little difference in performance. Performance of the 760mars seems to vary alot >.< still looks like a much better offer than the 780s (assuming $450-550). If it really comes out at the 800USD that tiny tim logan says is the RRP in UK then forget it, better of with a 780(ti) or dual R9-290 for same money.
I believe HDMI 2.0 with 4k@60FPS hits the market early next year, no idea when affordable 4k TVs like Seiki branded ones will arrive at that spec, but that would be the sort of application I would be looking at with two cards in this segment, unfortunately I don't know if these cards support HDMI2.0.
sweet lord..... $840????!!!!!
2x GTX 760 = $500.
the card looks beast, but who on earth would pay $340 more for the MARS, over 2x 760s? hell, you can get 3 GTX 760s for less than that XD or just SLI 2 GTX 770s :P
that price deflated me excitement.
asus built this card from the ground up There is alot of R&D that goes into products like this. I'm not suprised But from a buyers standpoint i would like to see it lower.
If you need a 760s this is the only configuration in a dual slot configuration.
If you wanted to go dual GPU at that price level you could get two R9-290s, R9 280x, GTX770s and have much higher performance, if you wanted that performance in a single card then there are already soloutions at that price from nvidia. Reasonable pricing at that performance level for a nvidia soloution could have helped asus increase its fanbase alot.
And yes NJM I know there is alot RnD into these sorts of things, but keep in mind there are many non-reference designs (partial and complete) for many other cards, you do not see them coming with a 60% premium, and I think they are going to sell much, much less cards at that price than say 450-550(probably more 500-550), hell even 600.
there are many non reference designs, but that's just slight redesigns of the PCB, mostly power phases and the likes. This card is basically built from the ground up using just the GK104 (I think it is) chip that is in the 760s, it would be an enormous amount of RnD compared to other redesigned cards.
Can't really think of another specific example (by name, which I know is 100% non-reference) and I know its kind of cheating because they used the same design in another generation but. Check out the 760DC mini, only 20% more than standard, and some of that is because it commands a niche pricing. There are some AMD cards like this I cant remember their names.
Superior cooling and acoustics are created with exclusive DirectCU thermal design and fan assembly. Award-winning DirectCU now includes custom vapor chamber technology and the new and advanced 360-degree CoolTech axial fan. Even in DirectCU Mini form, the proprietary design delivers up to 20% cooler temps and three times quieter performance than reference.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/geforce-gtx-760-direct-cu-mini,24261.html
a dual gpu card with mid range gpus? why? just make the 790 already
WTF! Frame pacing, anyone?
I'll never understand these novelty cards. IIRC Asus has LOST money with most of their previous "novelty cards". They are so expensive to design and make (it's not simple to re-design whole PCB with two GPUs). I guess that's why this 760 Mars is so freaking expensive. I'd never buy it.
i mean, at that price, assuming your justification was wanting a single card option, then the GTX 780 Ti would be a better alternative. $140 cheaper, and it has 3gigs of memory, vs 2gigs on the MARS.
and if you didn't mind having 2 slots, you could get the same performance out of 2 760s for $500
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