Intel’s Arc A380 graphics card is about to launch within the U.S. at $129 – $139, however this is not going to be the corporate’s most cost-effective discrete providing because it has a miniature single-slot low-profile A300-series board that may seemingly price about $100 and can be aimed toward small form-factor low-cost desktops.
Alexey ‘Unwinder’ Nikolaychuk, the developer behind MSI’s Afterburner (and RivaTuner earlier than that), has printed an image of a but unannounced single-slot low-profile Intel Arc A300-series graphics card with a dual-fan cooler, which Ilya Korneychuk has reposted from PRO Hello-Tech (opens in new tab). The cooling system was 3D printed, Nikolaychuk advised VideoCardz (opens in new tab), so we aren’t coping with a industrial product right here. In the meantime, this might be a design for a extremely low-cost Intel Arc A300-series graphics board aimed toward channel companions and PC makers.
Intel’s Arc A380Â is a comparatively compact entry-level gaming graphics card powered by the corporate’s ACM-G11 graphics processor with eight Xe cores (1,024 stream processors) and 6GB of GDDR6 reminiscence linked to the GPU utilizing a 96-bit interface. Nevertheless, since they cater to avid gamers, they generally include elevated clocks and energy consumption, which is why they want an 8-pin auxiliary PCIe energy connector. In the meantime, in lots of circumstances, low-cost PCs from huge OEMs would not have any PCIe energy connectors. Moreover, some can not even home a full-profile graphics card since they arrive in a compact chassis. Thus, Intel wants one thing smaller and extra power environment friendly to deal with such methods than its Arc A380.
Intel is prepping (or at the least testing) a miniature single-slot low-profile Arc A310 or Arc 320 board that may match into any PC with a spare PCIe x16 slot and doesn’t want any exterior energy. To a big diploma, it is a rival for AMD’s Radeon RX 6400 o Radeon Professional 6400 card that’s each small and low energy. In the meantime, not like AMD’s Navi 24, Intel’s ACM-G11 has world-class media processing capabilities ({hardware} decoding/encoding of 4K H.264/H.265/AV1 streams) and 4 show pipelines.
We are able to solely surprise concerning the precise ACM-G11 configuration that Intel desires to make use of with its miniature Arc A300-series graphics board, however we suspect we’re speaking a few cut-down model of the GPU right here. Since even the full-blown Arc A380 graphics card will price about $130, count on the miniature form-factor cut-down model to price about $100 and even much less.
We have no idea whether or not such tiny boards will find yourself in retail, but when they do, they are going to be good choices for house theater PCs (HTPCs) and fairly succesful boards to improve low-cost OEM methods.
