Asus Radeon HD 5870 Ares 4GB GDDR5

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 9 expert reviews

Excellent:

3
Good:

6
Average:

0
Bad:

0

Pros:

Wins every performance contest, Good cooling, Looks that can kill, Headroom to overclock

Cons:

Available only upon order, Deliberately premium priced

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Last revision on November 24, 2011

Reviewers Liked

Wins every performance contest, Good cooling, Looks that can kill, Headroom to overclock

Reviewers Didn't Like

Available only upon order, Deliberately premium priced

Expert reviews and ratings

File this one under the "more money than sense" category. The ARES arrives in a luxurious aluminium case that looks like it should be housing launch codes rather than an expensive gadget, which undoubtedly contributes to the record-breaking price tag....

By APC Magazine on May 04, 2011

If you’ve got the cash and the power supply the ARES will blow you away with its benchmark busting DirectX 11...

By ITP.net on December 20, 2010

Expensive, exclusive and powerful, the Ares is a card we’d follow into...

By Atomic MPC on November 02, 2010

If price is your first consideration, this isn't the card for you. You have to accept the Asus Ares for what it is: a premium, limited-edition offering. But you get exceptional performance, build quality and exclusivity. This feast of a graphics...

By PC Advisor on November 01, 2010

Ares, the god of war, can now reside inside your desktop computer. Meant for those who want simply the absolute, in terms of performance and be pampered by their graphics card, the Asus Ares is the last word in PC graphics cards today. It stands head...

By PCWorld India on November 01, 2010

As we expected, the ASUS Ares is comparable to twin Radeon HD 5870 cards in CrossFireX (once you factor in the drver differences) and significantly quicker than the Radeon HD 5970. Hence, the Ares is easily the most powerful and fastest single...

By HardwareZone.com on August 21, 2010

We recently watched an episode of Top Gear where some maniac had squeezed a Lamborghini engine into a VW. It's obvious that the engineers behind the ARES video card have similar inspirations. The ARES is the definition of overkill and excess; those...

By APC Magazine on February 24, 2011

There is no doubt about it: The ASUS ARES is a damn cool video card. We can say that it is currently the fastest video card on the planet. If you want the fastest single card offering, this is it, no question. It is big and impressive looking. The...

By HardOCP on August 02, 2010

Before reading any further, we’re going place a warning right here and now: this is one heck of a long conclusion. When you’re talking about a $1200 product, there’s a lot to say and that goes doubly for the ASUS ARES. Nonetheless, there...

By Hardware Canucks on July 25, 2010

Graphics beast Review of Asus Ares: A divine name, two fully flavoured Cypress GPUs and three power connections: The Asus Ares is a real 3D monster. PC Games Hardware is testing the 1.200 Euro king among the video cards. Video cards that are named...

By PC Games Hardware on July 19, 2010

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