ASUS Releases “Faster Than Titan” ROG Mars 760 Video Card

For those wanting an ultra-fast video card and just so happen to be both an NVIDIA and ASUS ROG fan, then your day in the sun hath arrived. ASUS has just announced the release of their all-new Mars GTX 760 that is supposedly even faster than a Titan.

The card is totally designed by the ROG team and features the same racecar red and black color theme that is the mainstay of the ROG series of products. So what exactly is this new Mars 760? Well ASUS has taken a pair of GTX 760s and put them on a single PCB. The GeForce GTX 760 is a mid level card so it seems a bit odd for ASUS to come at things this way, but results will show if this is badass or just ass-bad.

There will not be a limited amount of the cards made and seeing only 1000 of them will be a thing of the past, and hopefully this will see prices at an affordable range as well. Teaming up with NVIDIA ASUS has come up with a 2-card solution that can represent a Quad-SLI configuration and freeing up 2-PCIe lanes in the process as well. Why oh why a GTX 760 we all may ask and here was the answer: The GTX 760 still has 1,152 CUDA cores, which together gives it 2,304: this is Titan territory! Yet, with a GHz+ core clock, it’s even faster than Titan, and the Ti 780 in some games! The MARS 760 is – for the first time – a MARS affordable to many. No longer a limited run 1,000-part device, it provides a real alternative to those interested in buying GK110-territory products.

In the pics you can see the card is designed with looks as well as performance in mind and there is a giant sized MARS logo on the top of the card that features a pulsating red light. The card is based of a dual slot design so it should fit in most cases without problem. The DirectCU technology is still the essential and fundamental core of the cards design featuring dual fans, dual heatsinks, and 8 heatpipes all used to keep those GTX 760s running cool. Underneath there is a high-endurance frame that doubles as a heatspreader for the VRMs and memory. The long card is further braced on the backside and to protect the additional components using an aluminum bracket. ASUS like always when making their high-end cards has a 100% custom designed PCB that they build the new Mars 760 upon and there is nothing else like it on the market.

ASUS likes to take thing a bit further than other companies and tries to make their components and their PCB A++. The Mars 760 features a 12-phase DIGI+ VRM design has Super Alloy Power hardware and (Nichicon GT-series) Black Metallic Caps, providing longer life/harder wearing components. On the backside there are over a dozen super-low noise POSCAPs to enhance OC and stability potential. Both GeForce GTX 760 cores can run up to 1072mhz and combining the 2GB of memory for each card you get 4GB of total GDDR5 memory that runs at 6GHz (effective).  These are connected to the PLX PCI-Express 3.0 switch, providing the maximum throughput to the PCI-Express 16x connection. Adding another MARS 760 and connecting the SLI link gives you a Quad-SLI configuration with four GPUs! ASUS has some initial test scores directly from them if you want to see a preview of how the fast the card is supposed to be. Thanks for reading Tech Of Tomorrow.

Source: ASUS