NVIDIA's GeForce 9600 GSO - a graphics card based on a high-end core but handicapped to meet a mainstream price point - is known to have plenty of overclocking potential, but its limiting factor tends to be the 384MB framebuffer.
Hong Kong based Inno3D has today announced an obvious solution that surprisingly hasn't come sooner - a GeForce 9600 GSO with 512MB of GDDR3 memory and an improved 256-bit bus.
The card, pictured above, provides 96 stream processors and core and memory frequencies of 650MHz and 1,600MHz, respectively. That's a tad quicker than NVIDIA's reference specification, but not quite as high as solutions from other manufacturers.
In our recent review of XFX's highly-overclocked GeForce 9600 GSO XXX, we found the card to be a bargain-price mid-range monster that suffered due to its performance-inhibiting 384MB frame buffer. Should Inno3D manage to hit the sub-£70 price point, its 512MB derivative could be promising.
Official product page: Inno3D.com
