14 DAY TRIAL // Not long ago, we covered the rumor about a certain ASUS graphics card featuring two GPUs but named the same as one of the weaker high-end GeForce boards. Now, we have pictures.
ASUS must be aiming for the bizarre here. There isn't much of an explanation for why it named the card ROG Mars 760.
Well, ROG (Republic of Gamers) and Mars are obvious enough, since they have both been associated with gaming-centric ASUS hardware for years.
However, the name 760 is really strange, because GeForce GTX 760, while good, is not great or super, performance-wise, and is, in the end, a single-GPU adapter from NVIDIA, not a dual-chip one.
ASUS would have probably done the world a favor by naming the product something ending in 90, like GeForce GTX 790. Although maybe NVIDIA is working on a GTX 790 and isn't letting anyone use the name first.
If so, the choice of a name could be a stealthed confirmation that NVIDIA will release a dual-GPU HD 700-series board soon.
In any case, this is supposed to be about the ASUS ROG Marx 760, so we'll get back on topic. HardwareLuxx has posted some pictures of the card.
The product has 2,304 CUDA cores via two Kepler GK104 GPUs (Graphics Processing Units), a PLX chip, and 12-phase DIGI+ VRM.
A pair of 8-pin connectors will be needed to supply power, which goes without saying on a dual-chip adapter really, especially when a pair of fans and a glowing MARS logo are involved. Speaking of the cooler, it is made of those two fans, a backplate, and a black and red shroud.
Finally, Quad-SLI will be supported, which means that two MARS 760 adapters will be able to work together (since each has two GPUs connected via a PLX PEX8747 chip).
No clue yet how the board compares to NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 690 or AMD's Radeon HD 7990. At least we know it outclasses all single-GPU ones.
