Inno3D iChill GTX275 Review

When looking for a video card that is capable of playing games well at high quality, users are bombarded with choices: brands, versions, overclocked and stock speeds, and many other variables. The recently released GTX 275 is intended to fill the price and performance gap between the GTX 260 and GTX 285/295, and also combat AMD’s new 4890, all the while still offering high-end performance. Up for review is Inno3D’s iChill GTX 275 with a non-reference cooler designed by Arctic Cooling. The card comes with 896MB of GDDR3 clocked at 2350MHz, the core running at 670MHz, and shaders at 1474MHz, all on a 55nm fabrication process with 240 stream processors. Overall, the card matches specifications of a GTX 280/285 and half of a GTX 295 on stream processors, and matches a GTX 260 and GTX 295 with 896MB of memory. Power usage and efficiency, along with overall clock speed and overclocking ability, should be improved over the older GTX 280, while the smaller memory bus (448-bit) and 128MB less memory may take a little away from the card compared to the 512-bit 1GB memory on the GTX 280/285s.

Inno3D is the graphics card division of the company InnoVISION Multimedia Limited. InnoVISION is a multimedia hardware products company that was founded in 1998 in Hong Kong, China, producing mostly Nvidia-based graphics cards, while the company also has produced some motherboards. Other brands include InnoDV digital video/capture cards, InnoAX high-end sound/audio cards, and EIO advanced peripherals. The company aims to bring the ultimate experience to users at an affordable price point.

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