Inno3D
Inno3D
Well, an introduction certainly isn't required. We start off with a visit to the booth of Inno3D. You guys obviously know them as well... if there's a new Inno3D graphics card out, chances are fairly high that we will or have reviewed it.
Ever since Inno3D jumped the bandwagon and started their somewhat more exclusive line of graphics cards with their iChill edition cards, the company has certainly grown as it regained respect from the enthusiast community; the iChill edition graphics cards offer a nice design, good bundle and some sort of extravagant cooling in combo with an extended warranty. Though hard to find and purchase, the Accelero cooled GTX 260 we recently tested was one of the biggest product releases in terms of popularity here at Guru3D.com, as the cooler offers downright extravagant cooling.
Inno3D is active on many fronts, they of course offer their regular cards, their iChill editions but let's not forget they also offer their nice OC versions. Let's have a run though their booth, where we had a meeting with the always mesmerizing Caroline.
First off, and what a surprise... NVIDIA ION mATX. Apparently Inno3D is jumping on the ION bandwagon as well. And good for them as it's going to be a really popular product for small net-tops and simple HTPCs. Total black PCB, integrated wireless, HDMI, digital TOSLINK, two DDR2 memory DIMM slots. That's going to become a fairly popular little board alright.
More prominently introduced to the world, also through Inno3D BTW, here it is... the single PCB based GeForce GTX 295. NVIDIA is going to introduce them silently, and just replace the older 295. Fairly soon actually, once that old SKU runs out of stock... this one will replace the two PCB version.
You'd expect a thinner design with one less PCB, but this definitely remains a full spec and dual-slot sized card alright. Also make no mistake, not one single thing is different clock-speed wise or anything else. The card will have two 55nm GT200 chips, 1792MB (896*2) GDDR3 memory, 896-bit (448*2) memory interface, 289W TDP, 1.4 billion*2 transistors, 240*2 stream processors, 80*2 Texture Map Units, 28*2 ROPs, and core/shader/memory clock of 576/1242/1998 MHz. As such this new single-PCB GTX295 keeps the same specs as before.
