14 DAY TRIAL // You'd think that the 3 GB of GDDR5 on a certain ASUS video board are more than enough for any video board, but Point of View disagrees if a certain leak is anything to go by.
Users may or may not heave learned of the Mars II, that dual-GTX 580 card that ASUS has been working on.
With two GF110 GPUs, 3 GB of GDDR5 VRAM and clock speeds to match, it is, all in all, a juggernaut.
This did not stop Point of View from coming up with the idea of cramming even more memory inside a video board that, by all accounts, is leagues lower in terms of overall prowess.
According to ComputerBase, POV figured it would take the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti and give it 4 full gigabytes of memory.
Granted, the RAM type is DDR3, not the significantly mightier GDDR5, but it still fits most people's definition of Overkill.
The frequency of the memory is 1.066 MHz, while the GPU (comparatively unassuming to the one above) has a clock of 900 MHz.
Meanwhile, 192 CUDA cores add to the overall feature set (they operate at 1,900 MHz), as does the 128-bit memory interface.
All in all, this is an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti video controller whose memory amount is four times the one on the stock card.
Users will have to pay 113 Euro (only pre-orders can be placed for the moment), a price that accounts for the DVI, D-Sub and HDMI outputs and all the technologies NVIDIA is known for (PhysX, CUDA, etc.).
All in all, the price is not that steep, but one cannot help but ask the question of whether or not it makes sense of a board, which caters to the lower half of the mainstream, to have this much RAM when prospective buyers can just consider acquiring a higher-end model instead.