There are some substantial rumors that ASUS will bring an ARES III 8 GB Dual-Chip Hawaii Graphics Card to computex this year. This puppy would get two 290(X) chips working in Crossfire and two 4GB memory partitions. With a TDP of over 250 Watt per GPU we can expect the liquid cooled card to have a board power above 500 Watt with a recommended PSU rating of 800 Watt.
A Hawaii XT core features 2816 stream processors, 176 texture mapping units and 64 ROPs. So double that up and boom, 5632 cores. The is being developped under codename Vesuvius, a vulcano in Naples, Italy.
ASUS ROG ARES III Comparison Chart:
| ASUS ROG ARES I | ASUS ROG ARES II | ASUS ROG ARES III | |
| GPU Codename | Hemlock XT | New Zealand | Hawaii / Vesuvius |
| GPU Process | 40nm | 28nm | 28nm |
| GPU Cores | 3200 SPs | 4096 SPs | 5632 SPs |
| Memory | 2 GB GDDR5 x 2 | 3 GB GDDR5 x 2 | 4 GB GDDR5 x 2 |
| Memory Bus | 256-bit x 2 | 384-bit x 2 | 512-bit x 2 |
| Cooling | Dual Heatsink | Hybrid Cooler | Hybrid Cooler |
| Power Connectors | 8+8+6 Pin | 8+8+6 Pin | 8+8+6 Pin? |
| TDP | 294W | 500W | ~500W |
| Price | $1200 US | $1600 US | $1000 – $2000 |
You can expect the card to make an appearance around Computex time, with it being a limited batch and very high prices (we expect 1500 USD) it will be a marketing tool for ASUS. Albeit a very sexy one!. Below a PCB photo showing the dual GPU Ares II as example of what that would look like.
ASUS ARES III will be 8 GB Dual-GPU Hawaii Graphics Card
