ASUS, the maker of the world’s best selling and most award winning motherboards, today announced the launch of ARES Graphics Card. With the launch of ARES, the Radeon HD 5970 graphics card will no more hold the title of The World’s Fastest Card. ARES has been named after the ancient Greek God of War, son of Zeus and Hera, identified by the Romans with Mars.

Speaking about the launch, Mr. Vinay Shetty, Country Head – Components Business, ASUS (India) said “We are very excited about the launch of ARES. It is truly a premium product and has its own buyers. Keeping in mind that segment we have created this marvel as a special limited edition with only 1000 units available worldwide. The ARES after all is a ‘true dual-Radeon HD 5870’ Crossfire setup on a single PCB.”

This new graphics card deploys two already-potent Radeon HD5870 cores. ARES has 3200 stream processors and a cosmic 4GB of GDDR5 RAM clocked at 1.2GHz. This is the kind of power gamers and hobbyists dream of, allowing even the most demanding applications to run fully unabridged while future-proofing for coming attractions, as it will be a long time before ARES finds itself taxed. It also serves as a superb anchor for overclocking aficionados building a benchmark machine, since the potential for tuning is enormous.

Also it for the first time that such a high end offering in VGA has been brought to India by any company. This uber-high-enthusiast targeted product is intended to for end-users really interested it in, regardless of its high price.

For those keen on the excitement of gaming and performance tuning, there has never been a more thrilling time to venture beyond the frontier.