What only happened? At an event this week, Chinese company Innosilicon unveiled its first discrete GPU, the Fantasy One, on which it is basing a family of graphics cards. The visitor boasts that the cards have the nigh avant-garde GPU features, offering at least iii different models.

According to reports from Chinese and Taiwan news outlets, Innosilicon held an outcome laying out plans for its Fantasy I series graphics cards, including specifications for each. These GPUs are suited for consumer desktop and gaming rigs, as opposed to Innosilicon'south previously appear Fenghua one server GPU. Although it'due south non completely clear where the cards stand in terms of gaming operation, they may state in the same ballpark equally AMD'due south Radeon 6700XT and 6600XT.

Fantasy I Type A is a consumer and workstation card with what may be a combination of GDDR6 and GDDR6X VRAM beyond a 128-bit interface, totaling 16GB. So far, we've only seen GDDR6X VRAM in the college-end entries in Nvidia's Ampere series released late last twelvemonth. Innosilicon says Type A should offer 5TFLOPs of single-precision power.

Type B is a dual-GPU solution of two GPUs connected by what Innosilicon calls "Innolink." This menu is capable of 10TFLOPs of single-precision power, comparable to the 6600XT, but it'south unclear how Innosilicon calculates FLOPs compared to AMD.

A third, smaller graphics card looks like it volition be an entry-level option, but there are even fewer details on it. A quaternary, server-oriented model appears to only characteristic passive cooling, according to auto translation of the MyDrivers story.

Innosilicon reportedly benchmarked the cards on Unigine Heaven OpenGL, but no one seems to take reported benchmark scores. For head-to-head comparisons, it's probable best to wait for game benchmarks after the Fantasy 1 cards finally hit the market. In any case, consumers might be happy merely to see some more competition in the GPU space, which has been dominated past Nvidia and AMD for years, with Intel attempting to grab a slice.

All of the Fantasy One cards have DisplayPort i.iv, HDMI 2.1, and VGA connections. Innosilicon says they support graphics APIs including OpenGL, OpenGL ES, OpenCL, Vulkan, and DirectX, though it hasn't said which version of DirectX.

Innosilicon plans to unveil the Fantasy 2 and iii GPU families side by side year.