Not long ago, we told you about Innosilicon announcing new GPUs, without really knowing what we were getting into. This time, things are becoming clearer, with the Chinese brand presenting four Fantasy 1 cards. Be careful though, not all the technical data is known yet. However, it’s still worth looking into it, as it features some pretty unique cards, including dual GPUs!
Fantasy 1 Type A: two cards in mono GPU!
With its Type A GPU, Innosilicon offers us two cards, one of which is quite imposing with its two green fans heatsink. As far as we know, this model requires a 6-pin PCIe power connector. On the video output side, we have DisplayPort, HDMI and VGA. The second model has a very small and basic yellow heatsink. It does not require any auxiliary power supply and has HDMI and DisplayPort outputs.
Regarding the chip, we know that Innosilicon uses a chiplet design. If the exact configuration of the latter is not known, we know that the card displays 5 TFLOP performance in FP32. Moreover, even if the brand carried out some benchmarks on Unigine Heaven in OpenGL, no score was leaked. We’ll just have to make do with a 160 GPixel/s fillrate.
Finally, the memory configuration is interesting since it uses GDDR6X. Until now, this type of memory was only produced by Micron and for NVIDIA. In the case of our Chinese card, we will have 16 GB of memory clocked at 19 Gbps. The bandwidth amounts to 304 Gbps because of a small bus of 128 bits.
Fantasy 1 Type B: Dual GPUs!
Of course, the small surprise of Innosilicon lies in the announcement of a solution based on dual GPUs. For the occasion, the brand uses two Type B chips. Again, no idea about the exact configuration of the chip. The brand also announces a computing power of 10 TFLOP in FP32 with a fillrate of 320 GPixel/s. Finally, the two GPUs communicate with each other through an interface called Innolink.
On the memory side, the capacity of the Type A is multiplied by 2. The card is therefore equipped with 32 GB of GDDR6X at 19 Gbps. Nevertheless, there is no change in the bus size: 128 bit. We also note the management of 32 simultaneous streams in 1080p at 60 FPS or 64 streams in 720p.
Finally, all these cards have a PCIe x16 4.0 interface. All these cards also support DirectX, Vulkan, OpenGL, OpenGL ES and OpenCL APIs. However, the version of these APIs is not specified.
What’s next?
We’ll quickly finish by telling you that the brand does not intend to stop there. Next year the company plans to unveil its Fantasy 2 and Fantasy 3 chips. For these generations, Innosilicon will use a 5 nm etching. For the current cards, nothing seems to have leaked.
