Asus RoG Mars 760 aims to take on the Titan

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Faster than Titan. That's Asus' claim for their latest bespoke graphics card, and by pairing up a couple of GK 104 GPUs, much like the GTX 690 before it, those claims have a certain validity.

The Asus Mars 760 has also got a pair of 2GB frame buffers for a total of 4GB GDDR5 and in true RoG style it's got a fat 12-phase power design to allow both chips to top the 1GHz mark in terms of raw clockspeed. It's also the first time a GTX 760 card is able to be used in quad-SLI configurations - as shown above.

According to my sources at Asus it performs quicker than the Titan and generally on par with the GTX 780 Ti. The interesting thing to note is that even when the average frame rates are hitting parity the Mars 760 is supposedly able to offer higher minimum frame rates for a smoother gaming experience. I've only just received my card in the office so I've yet to put those claims to the test, but I'll be back to tell you how it performs soon enough.

Price-wise, I'm told we're looking roughtly £520. That's a lot of cash considering the vanilla GTX 760 is available for just £180 at the moment and the GTX 780 Ti is about £550.

Personally speaking, even if it does offer higher frame rates than the single-GPU cards it's tough to recommend a dual-GPU card for the same price. Straight performance isn't everything, which is why I always preferred the GTX 780 and GTX Titan over either the GTX 690 or the HD 7990 - both of which offered higher frame rates. A little while down the line it may become tricky getting the dual-GPU setups to play nicely with the latest games, especially around their launch.

Despite my general distrust of multi-GPU setups though I am running a pair of GTX 680s in my office machine at the moment and it sure is making playing and recording Battlefield 4 a lovely experience.
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Dave James
Dave James
Editor-in-Chief, Hardware

Dave has been gaming since the days of Zaxxon and Lady Bug on the Colecovision, and code books for the Commodore Vic 20 (Death Race 2000!). He built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 16, and finally finished bug-fixing the Cyrix-based system around a year later. When he dropped it out of the window. He first started writing for Official PlayStation Magazine and Xbox World many decades ago, then moved onto PC Format full-time, then PC Gamer, TechRadar, and T3 among others. Now he's back, writing about the nightmarish graphics card market, CPUs with more cores than sense, gaming laptops hotter than the sun, and SSDs more capacious than a Cybertruck.