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Inno3D surprised us recently with its innovative take on the 7300 GT, so we were eagerly awaiting this card. The 7600 has performed excellently on the PCI Express platform, so it should make for a nice upgrade.

The 7600 GS GPU is identical to that used in the 7600 GT, which has five vertex shaders, 12 pixel pipelines and eight pixel output engines. That's just a drop below the specifications of the 7800 GS, but has the limitation of 128-Bit memory instead of 256-Bit. That in theory halves the memory bandwidth, without taking clock speeds in to account.

Being a GS, the core is running at a lower speed of 400MHz and the memory is DDR2, running at 400MHz (800MHz effective). That's quite a bit lower than the 7600 GT and this should be reflected in the performance.

Despite these low clock speeds, the card still requires a Molex connector to work. A similar card on PCI Express wouldn't need external power as the slot can supply more than an AGP slot can.

Above you can see what the bridge chip looks like after the heatsinks are removed. This converts the native PCI Express GPU into a form that can work with AGP. I was quite impressed to find that both of the coolers fitted to this Inno3D card had thermal paste on them instead of a cheaper thermal pad.

There is a single DVI connection and a D-SUB connection too. A DVI to D-SUB adapter is included should you need one. An S-Video cable and component break-out cable is included as well, which goes nicely with the bundled InterVideo WinDVD.

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