Asus Mars GTX 295 8GB SLI Runs Far Cry 2 2160p

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8 GB of graphics RAM enough for you?

Have the need for speed? Check out the Asus Mars GTX 295, which its maker claims to be the fastest video card on the planet at the current moment. It set the world record in 3DMark with a score of X25057 just before Computex, and now it’s basking in all its glory at the show.

Asus had these running Far Cry 2 at the show at a mind (and monitor) blowing resolution of 3840 x 2160. Put two of them together for a quad-SLI setup with 8 GB of graphics memory.
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I wish I had cash for this when it comes out...this will definitely be a Crysis beater
 
looooooool
nice

TO me these 2GB and 10 GB and 15Exabyte cards are stupid.

Show me a game that uses more than 1GB of Video memory to its FULL POTENTIAL at FULL HD REZ of 1920x1080.
 
Lol true, I think this card will also be a heavy bottleneck to current CPU's. You think the i7-975 will handle it?
 
I kinda agree with mappy, there is no point running these extreme cards.
Its just gonna cost you a fortune and then like you guys mentioned it will probably need the top spec i7 cpu to run properly, which will set you back a lot!!
 
Agree with Mappy and Joker. The other thing to consider is getting hold of a display unit that supports such high resolutions....although if you are one of the few who can afford to spend absurd amounts of money on PC hardware, that may not be an issue.

The other thing of course is the question of what game will use such an extreme card, or array of cards to their maximum potential? By the time such a game comes along, we may well be sitting with DirectX 12, which may have features the GTX 295 does not support.
 
I used to game with a SLI 280 dual 26" screen setup. And the 280's were not enough to get games running good enough to my standards. sold one of my screens... then gaming took a downturn so I sold one of my 280's as well.

Sure it's fun for a couple of weeks but after that such a monster rig just sits and do's nothing.

*not even that rig of mine could get GTA IV to run @ 60fps*
 
Poor GTA IV performance is a result of less than dazzling coding rather than an indictment on your hardware. I also think that Crysis could probably have done with some fine-tuning.
 
spot on...I also don't think its the hardware at all but rather the software side of it.
Specifically the gfx drivers and code in gaming.
If drivers could be written well enough then I that could utilise the hardware much much better for performance.
I just update my Catalyst drivers to 9.5 in vista/win 7 and Crysis is running far better then previous drivers. Just goes to show that the amount of money you pay for your hardware and yet you don't get all the performance that comes with it due to the coding of drivers.
 
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