Tuesday, January 24th 2023
Intel Arc A380 MXM Card Surfaces with 50-75 W Power Limits
A Chinese OEM put a desktop Intel Arc "Alchemist" A380 GPU on an MXM board for notebooks and mobile workstations with upgradable graphics. This isn't the mobile A380M, but rather the desktop A380 that has been designed into an MXM 3.1 type-A board that's capable of PCIe Gen 4 x8. The 6 nm ACM-G11 ASIC is flanked by three GDDR6 memory chips that make the board's 6 GB of memory across its 96-bit memory bus. What's interesting about this board is its tight power limits, which are set at 50 W, that can draw up to 75 W. The card puts out three HDMI and one DP outputs. Its cooling solution mount-hole spacing appears to match that of the popular GeForce GTX 1050 Ti.
Source:
MEGAsizeGPU (Twitter)
8 Comments on Intel Arc A380 MXM Card Surfaces with 50-75 W Power Limits
Although it is cool to see some shaningans outside partners :D.
In any case, having a GPU that performs like a GTX 1050 Ti in 2023 is nothing to write home about. The GTX 1050 Ti itself is struggling to compete against AMD's 680M iGPU.
honestly a full A380 in MXM module for an laptop is preatty neat idea - remember that A380 (technically in its best) is close / on par of DESKTOP GTX 1650 / RX 6400
so an MXM module in laptop, based on desktop SKU of A380, could put much more performance than any laptop GTX 1650 / AMD closest mobile equivalent of 1650