Price needs to be lower. Hopefully driver team will get their act together(given this is Intel, little to no hope of that happening)

lets to see the actual performance numbers. Not sure about the drivers and how it will be. Price is slightly on the aggressive side but if the performance is good it can be justified :)
Hope intel doesn't messed up with small launch

I picked one up to put in my eGPU enclosure to replace the 580 for my work laptop. For $140 its basically a piece of history even if it does/doesnt fail so shit why not?

Didnt see this thread posted in an older one.
297 USD here! :kookoo:

Why the 8-pin extra for a 75W GPU??
What's wrong with 6-pin?

Also, until it`s a sub 100$ - no buy.
After it`s a sub 100$ - no buy.
At 29$ it start to make sense.

Unless you are a collector and then keep it sealed in the box, for a decade or so, for maturation.

fresh e-waste everybody, get yours before theyre in the landfill!

the madlads are finally going to do it :D

Dirt ChipWhy the 8-pin extra for a 75W GPU??
What's wrong with 6-pin?

Also, until it`s a sub 100$ - no buy.
After it`s a sub 100$ - no buy.
At 29$ it start to make sense.

Unless you are a collector and then keep it sealed in the box, for a decade or so, for maturation.

For 75W you dont even need anything else other than PCIe power, but this card is power hungry and this 75W spec is some fake Intel marketing, just like their CPU TDP`s.

This card's honest price is 99$ with ALL taxes included.

scheilinkinFor 75W you dont even need anything else other than PCIe power, but this card is power hungry and this 75W spec is some fake Intel marketing, just like their CPU TDP`s.

Well, you do need more then 75W if the card is rated at 75W just to be on the safe side. But 6-pin (75W) is enough for any "OC" or edge scenario.
See TPU review for A380- it max at ~100W in furmark.
75W(PCIe)+75W(6PIN) will do fine, forcing 8PIN on absolutely entry level card make no sense.
But then again, most of ARC`s doesn't settle with realty right now...

Solaris17I picked one up to put in my eGPU enclosure to replace the 580 for my work laptop. For $140 its basically a piece of history even if it does/doesn't fail so shit why not?

But is this faster than a 580??

Ummmm, if you don't have ReBAR it's worth about £60/$70/€65 because there's no shortage of working, equivalent-performance cards for that kind of money, Oh - and their driver features work and the performance in older games (not tested by TPU) are vastly superior. The 1050 Ti is also only a 75W card.



If you do have ReBAR then your motherboard and CPU are new, then the GTX 1650 competes for $10 more, which is barely half the cost. Not all GTX 1650 cards are under 75W, but the factory-OC models typically only use 90W under furmark, so it's close enough that its not going to matter.



Those aren't unrealistic search results, those are "middle of the field" sold listings and I filtered out faulty cards. You can ABSOLUTELY find better deals than those - You can't mine ETH on either of them so they've never been mined on, and more than half of them allow returns, either because they're refurbs from a large-scale recycler, or because the private individual selling them reckons that if they've lasted 3-5 years already, they will probably last another 30-90 days (which is typically how long the seller return windows are).

You can argue that the RX 6400 and GT 1630 are "new" cards with a full warranty that cost more, but both of those cards are absolutely terrible scalper-level disasters that have been abysmally reviewed and universally panned by the majority of reviewers at their MSRPs. The GPU availability crisis is over and neither the 6400 nor the GT 1630 make any sense as purchases any more. If your budget is tight, you can do a lot better than either of them, so the $139 for an A380 with all of its caveats isn't any better than the terrible RX 6400 or GT 1630.

Dirt ChipWhy the 8-pin extra for a 75W GPU??
What's wrong with 6-pin?

Pretty much all power supplies come with either 8-pin or 6+2pin connectors where you're left with 2 pins dangling. Manufacturers should have just agreed to drop one of them entirely since pratically speaking they both could carry the same power (sense pins are connected to ground and wouldn't need to be there if there was just one type of connector)


*from wikipedia

Prima.VeraBut is this faster than a 580??

no? what makes you think im doing this for performance?

im gonna make sure i dont buy one "honist" :) .

The KingDidnt see this thread posted in an older one.
297 USD here! :kookoo:

Isn't that just "new product" scalping that happens on all technology launches in third-world countries?

Dirt ChipWhy the 8-pin extra for a 75W GPU??
What's wrong with 6-pin?

The same thing that's "wrong" with only having a single 8-pin EPS12V power connector on a motherboard: manufacturers think that adding completely unnecessary and irrelevant power connectors to their products, somehow makes those products look more powerful and thus desirable to consumers.

In this case it's even more stupid because an unnecessary 8-pin PCIe power connector excludes consumers with older PSUs that only have 6-pin connectors... the same consumers that are the ideal market for a GPU at Arc's price point. So Asrock has literally designed this product to fail.

Since this card was release in China first, I wonder what the Chinese have said about the card. Anyone know?

I wont be buying one anytime soon. I honestly think they are junk.

Solaris17no? what makes you think im doing this for performance?

Using eGPU enclosure for the cool factor then ? :D

The KingDidnt see this thread posted in an older one.
297 USD here! :kookoo:

Supposedly launching this weekend..

ChaitanyaSupposedly launching this weekend..

I'm not getting Rick Rolled thank you...

Dirt ChipWhy the 8-pin extra for a 75W GPU??
What's wrong with 6-pin?

Also, until it`s a sub 100$ - no buy.
After it`s a sub 100$ - no buy.
At 29$ it start to make sense.

Unless you are a collector and then keep it sealed in the box, for a decade or so, for maturation.

29 bucks. Lol! Even slot powered Gt1030's go for 75 euro but then again 'they just work' :D

Can't believe they are really going to try and sell it! If they gave me a A380, I think I'd see how resistant it is to a lump-hammer. Got me some Nvidia, that Arc thing is surplus to almost anyone's requirements.

139.99 for a product broken before you get it out of the box geez…..

r9Using eGPU enclosure for the cool factor then ? :D

To push other displays :) “work” laptop.

And so it begins.....

The snipe-hunting, greed-stricken, camel dung-heapin rein of the intel crappa puhloozah, that is :D

someone pleeze wake me up when they release somethin that ISN"T total garbaggio.....like maybe in 2036 or so !