I've been following it since they announced it, very intrigued. In fact I pre-ordered this A380 last week and it's currently floating around somewhere between UPS and USPS thanks to "Mail Innovations"...
https://www.newegg.com/asrock-arc-a3...82E16814930076
The ASRock card is not as nice build quality as the "Gunnir" brand A380 that launched in China last month that's been reviewed all over the internet, but it is officially available here in the US through normal retail channels at MSRP, so that's a win.
The A380 being a budget card, I'm probably going to try gaming on it for fun, but then relegate it to my Plex server as it supports all the modern decoding/encoding features. I am not sure if Plex even supports it yet, but I'm assuming it will because Plex does support using QuickSync on Intel HD Graphics, so we will see..
I am in the market for a new GPU in the future for my main desktop, as the Tesla M40 12GB is great, but it would be nice to have a proper GPU in there not a hacked up repurposed server card. I'll probably end up with an Arc A770 for that when they finally do release it. The A380 just isn't going to be powerful enough to keep up with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020!
The competition to the Arc A380 being the RX6400 and GTX 1630, well, Arc is a better value than both of them. At the expense of driver optimization and mediocre performance for DX11 and older games.
All that said, there are rumors Intel already wants to kill off Arc. I really hope that's BS. They should have known that competing with AMD and Nvidia is not so simple, cheap, easy. And I think they do, so I suspect those rumors are BS. Because overall I think these Intel graphics cards are probably one of the most exciting and interesting things in the desktop/gaming graphics market in many years.
I'm interested if anyone else has or intends to get an Arc GPU and what you think of the whole thing?
https://www.newegg.com/asrock-arc-a3...82E16814930076
The ASRock card is not as nice build quality as the "Gunnir" brand A380 that launched in China last month that's been reviewed all over the internet, but it is officially available here in the US through normal retail channels at MSRP, so that's a win.
The A380 being a budget card, I'm probably going to try gaming on it for fun, but then relegate it to my Plex server as it supports all the modern decoding/encoding features. I am not sure if Plex even supports it yet, but I'm assuming it will because Plex does support using QuickSync on Intel HD Graphics, so we will see..
I am in the market for a new GPU in the future for my main desktop, as the Tesla M40 12GB is great, but it would be nice to have a proper GPU in there not a hacked up repurposed server card. I'll probably end up with an Arc A770 for that when they finally do release it. The A380 just isn't going to be powerful enough to keep up with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020!
The competition to the Arc A380 being the RX6400 and GTX 1630, well, Arc is a better value than both of them. At the expense of driver optimization and mediocre performance for DX11 and older games.
All that said, there are rumors Intel already wants to kill off Arc. I really hope that's BS. They should have known that competing with AMD and Nvidia is not so simple, cheap, easy. And I think they do, so I suspect those rumors are BS. Because overall I think these Intel graphics cards are probably one of the most exciting and interesting things in the desktop/gaming graphics market in many years.
I'm interested if anyone else has or intends to get an Arc GPU and what you think of the whole thing?
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