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Fastest Graphics Ever, Asus ARES Rips Benchmarks
MojoKid writes "Over-the-top, killer graphics cards are always fun to play with, though they may not be all that practical. With a pair of ATI Radeon HD 5870 GPUs on a single PCB and 4GB of GDDR5 graphics memory on board, the recently released Asus ARES is one such card that can currently claim the title of being the fastest single gaming graphics card on the planet. This dual-GPU-infused beast rips through benchmarks, besting even the likes of a Radeon HD 5970 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480. You can even run a pair of them in CrossFire mode, if you're hell-bent on the fastest frame rates money can buy currently."
The fastest video card ever made? Is this the last video card ever made or something? I think maybe you meant the fastest video card to date.
Isn't the real problem the fact that the performance of this card is meaningless? There's a refresh limitation on monitors. Since the PC gaming market's been basically dead for 5 years, what is really going to tax its performance - you don't really think anyone except for masochists are actually willing to subject themselves to Crysis's "gameplay", for instance, rather than just running the glorified tech demo as a benchmark over and over again.
And if you're looking for maxed frames on World of Warcraft, or any other MMO, chances are you can achieve it with cards from 4 years ago still.