Ran into the first boxed Arc VGA, but only China can rejoice

The Arc A380 has become an affordable graphics card, however, it is currently only available in the Chinese market.

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Intel unveiled it in late March the first representatives of the mobile Arc product family, while for desktop options, only the summer look was allowed. No need to wait any longer for that, at least in China, as the Arc A380, one of the entry-level members of the series, has become available in the Eastern Power market. The parameters are detailed in the table below:

There is very little official data on the performance of recent development, but we’ve learned from OEMs that most AMD Radeon RX 6400comparable to. It’s basically game dependent on whether the Intel or AMD solution is faster. A characteristic factor, however, is that the flag is more like the Arc A380 in the Vulkan API, while the situation is mostly in DirectX 12, while the entry-level Radeon tends to be better in the DirectX 11 API. The Arc series has a huge disadvantage in games written for the DirectX 9 API, but this can be explained in principle by the fact that the graphics driver does not handle the DirectX 9 or older APIs native, but through an intermediate compiler layer, which obviously results in significant overhead. processor side.

Intel has so far only allowed the Arc A380 to be marketed in VGA boxed form in China, but OEMs can now make it available in any market when installed in full machines. All you know is that in China, Gunnir is asking for 1030 yuan for its own solution, which is around $ 150, and that’s pretty much the price level for the Radeon RX 6400. Unfortunately, I don’t know when the first boxed Arc VGA may arrive further west.

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