14 DAY TRIAL // Finally NVIDIA has officially introduced its very first dual-GPU graphics adapter with support for DirectX 11, and it seems ASUS wasted not a second in delivering its own version of the device.
On the consumers market, one might say that there are two kinds of hardware products, if one were to look from a marketing standpoint.
For one, there is the bulk of the industry, with various hardware offerings of differing levels of competence and efficiency.
Then, there are those, massively powerful hardware pieces that exist just as a reminder of who is better on a certain area.
On the graphics card market, it looks like NVIDIA has finally delivered its first dual-GPU, DirectX 11-capable video board, the long-awaited GeForce GTX 590.
While reviewers comment on how AMD's Radeon HD 6990 performs better in benchmarking tests, ASUS was quick to produce its own version of the adapter.
Equipped with two GF110 graphics processing units, the card run at 612 MHz, while the 3 GB of GDDR5 VRAM are complemented by a dual interface of 384 bits.
Even more importantly, ASUS implemented the exclusive Voltage Tweak technology, by means of which the processors can be pushed a lot higher, all the way up to 918 MHz.
Granted, this beast won't really have any application, gaming or otherwise, capable of truly testing its mettle, except for benchmarking suites like 3DMark Vantage.
Still, if enthusiasts start lining up to order one of these it will most likely not come as any sort of surprise.
That said, ASUS didn't exactly mention for how much it expects this thing to sell, but it shouldn't be a far jump from the $699 that the original product was set at. Of course, it falls to online vendors to decide whether they will raise the price in any significant way.