Sparkle Embracing Arc A380 & A310 GPUs with Low-Profile GENIE Series

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Sparkle presented a pair of custom Intel Arc A380 and A310 cards[/url] at last month's Computex expo—reaffirming its commitment to presenting the full lineup of Arc GPUs. It is now reported that these "Industrial Low-Profile" cooled units will form the company's "GENIE" series. Sparkle's triple-fan TITAN series is comprised of Arc A770 and A750 GPUs, while the dual-fan ORC is formed solely of an A750. ELF is a single fan design A380 card.

The aforementioned GENIE models are both one slot designs with single fans and a low profile shrouds that only covers part of the PCB (comparable to the reference card). The A380 unit offers 8 Xe-Cores with 6 GB GDDR6 96-bit memory, while the lesser A310 gets 6 Xe-Cores and 4 GB of GDDR6 64-bit memory. The leaked presentation slide does not show any release date information, but reasonably final looking hardware making an appearance at Computex 2023 suggests that the GENIE series is not too far off from reaching retail.



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[Count von Schwalbe]

Looks like there may be a formatting issue:

custom Intel Arc [url=https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/arc-a380.c3913]A380 and A310 cards[/url]

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Anyways, nice to see some more LP GPU models, even if the performance is not exactly of the highest tier.

 

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I see a MXM card in there. I thought that standard was basically dead at this point?

 

[dj-electric]

I see a MXM card in there. I thought that standard was basically dead at this point?

I happen to work with MXM cards. It isnt dead, but you can say that its much more niche. Ampere MXM cards are still relatively a fresh thing, so you can say it lags about 18 months behind current desktop offerings

 

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I happen to work with MXM cards. It isnt dead, but you can say that its much more niche. Ampere MXM cards are still relatively a fresh thing, so you can say it lags about 18 months behind current desktop offerings

Oh I didn't know that, thanks for the insight! I just haven't seen them mentioned in so long so I assumed no one was using the standard anymore.

 

[dj-electric]

Oh I didn't know that, thanks for the insight! I just haven't seen them mentioned in so long so I assumed no one was using the standard anymore.

It takes for vendors who currently make ones to make new ones. Companies like Adlink and Aetina are prominent names in MXM.
The MXM form factor is incredible to work with as a flexible, small and modular component. We're all really missing out on not having it in more SFF computers

 

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It takes for vendors who currently make ones to make new ones. Companies like Adlink and Aetina are prominent names in MXM.
The MXM form factor is incredible to work with as a flexible, small and modular component. We're all really missing out on not having it in more SFF computers

Yeah I wish these would come back into the mainstream. I didn't get into the computer space until about 2016-17 (after highschool) so I missed the MXM stuff. It would be really cool to be able to upgrade a laptop's GPU once it dies or a better card comes out. Maybe framework would look into MXM for other laptops

 

[Jism]

"Embracing?"

I think more of cheap stock trying to get wrid of it for intel.