InnoSilicon has not published any information about the architecture, functional units, clock frequencies and production technology, so we can’t even get a rough idea of the performance position. She published roughly the following:
- Chinese GPUs for servers
- successfully tested in a 5G data center
- PCIe 4.0 ×16
- HDMI 2.1
- eDisplayPort 1.4
- GDDR6X
- encryption support
- VR / AR / AI support
- API / interface support: OpenGL / OpenGL ES / OpenCL / Vulkan / DX
The published data and the appearance of the card resemble a game GPU rather than a server accelerator. Even if we assume that support for Vulkan, DirectX and VR is present due to streaming (ie acceleration of games at the server level and sending images to end devices) – which in the end is possible due to certain hints in the specifications – other parameters will hardly explain. For example, it is not very clear what a server accelerator to which no display device connects is supported by the latest HDMI 2.1 and (e) DisplayPort 1.4 standards.
The chapter itself is a support (and most importantly a use) of GDDR6X. If we evaluate from the form of the cooler, it can hardly be a solution for more than 250W TDP. Let’s say something between 175-225 watts. Even if we assume that it uses the 7nm TSMC process and achieves similar energy efficiency as AMD and Nvidia hardware (which is unrealistic), the card cannot achieve performance at which GDDR6 would not be enough.
Support for the latest interfaces (GDDR6X, HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4…) thus acts as a showcase for InnoSilicon, which specializes in IP sales / interface implementation, rather than as an element that would be crucial in the context of the card. At the same time, it indirectly explains why we learn nothing about the architecture and configuration of the 3D core. This is not InnoSilicon parquet, to put it bluntly. Another possibility is that the manufacturer originally counted on the desktop, but for some reason eventually omitted it (as marketing would say, “the next generation will target the desktop”).
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