Sparkle Shows Serious Intel Arc Lineup at Computex 2023

[GFreeman]

Sparkle already announced that it will be coming up with the Intel Arc graphics card lineup soon, and it came to the Computex 2023 show in force, showing some rather impressive graphics cards, including the Arc A770 Watercooling concept, a couple of custom TITAN OC Edition graphics cards, and the A370 MXM version.

Sparkle's Intel Arc lineup starts off with some industrial low-profile graphics cards based on Intel Arc A310 and Arc A380 graphics cards, as well as standard Mini-ITX size ELF series versions which will be based on the same GPUs. Sparkle is also working on an Intel Arc A370 MXM GPU for laptops, which is a nice surprise. The main part of the showcase were certainly Sparkle's Intel Arc ORC and TITAN OC Edition custom versions of the Intel Arc A750 and Arc A770 chips. The biggest surprise though was the custom Sparkle A770 Watercooling concept. Sparkle is definitely serious in joining the Intel Arc team with Acer, ASRock, GUNNIR, Gigabyte, MSI and others, so hopefully we'll see some of these graphics cards on retail/e-tail shelves soon.



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[Upgrayedd]

I learned this week there's an 8GB version of the A770 from ASRock. Couldn't find in the tpu gpu database.

 

[DarthBaggins]

All for seeing more watercooling options entering the market - Intel just needs to keep moving forward with the Driver improvements (so far they look to be headed in the right direction).

 

[robb213]

Never knew of this brand. Seeing as they only sold PCI-based GPUs for most of their lifetime (from the looks of it on Wikipedia), no surprise. I wonder if their Intel lineup sells well if they will consider adding AMD and/or Nvidia to their portfolio.

 

[ZoneDymo]

Hey intel, just a heads up...drop the dang price while your product is sitll worth a damn...

last video I saw had the A770 16gb losing to the RX7600 at 1080p and 1440p and tieing at 4k.....

And that card is pretty poor at 300 dollars....sooo yeah.

 

[qlum]

At this point I feel like there must be some serious investment on intel's part to get the board partners on board, considering the low sales. Not saying it is bad, but it does seem likely looking in.

 

[RegaeRevaeb]

Bravo for LPs and mini-ITX cards, especially because that's likely dirt cheap AV1 for a couple models. I can imagine a good number of homelab types finding a use for them.

 

[kiddagoat]

Sparkle makes quite a bit of products. They used to carry their power supplies and Nvidia cards at Microcenter about 10 years ago or so. I had a 1200W PSU of theirs and their Fermi cards were pretty solid.

The color purple was always prevalent on their products as well as like a metallic holographic finish.

 

[claes]

What @kiddagoat said. They used to distribute quite a bit to NA and E.U. but afaik they are mostly just in China these days

Colorful-Graphics card

Established in 1995, Colorful is a brand with 20+ year history. Colorful business range covers DIY product lines, including graphics card, motherboard, RAM, SSD, all-in-one PC, server, etc. It is a comprehensive company that holds the largest share in the Chinese graphics card market...

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[bonehead123]

mostly just in China these days

That alone makes these an AUTO-NO BUY for me, in addition to the fact that they have essentially been persona-nongratta in the west for many many years....

 

[claes]

You should probably quit buying pc components, and probably electronics in general, then

 

[illusion archives]

Never knew of this brand. Seeing as they only sold PCI-based GPUs for most of their lifetime (from the looks of it on Wikipedia), no surprise. I wonder if their Intel lineup sells well if they will consider adding AMD and/or Nvidia to their portfolio.

Today Sparkle is a part of TUL/Powercolor : https://www.chinatimes.com/cn/newspapers/20230505000275-260206?chdtv

 

[SOAREVERSOR]

Never knew of this brand. Seeing as they only sold PCI-based GPUs for most of their lifetime (from the looks of it on Wikipedia), no surprise. I wonder if their Intel lineup sells well if they will consider adding AMD and/or Nvidia to their portfolio.

SPARKLE unveils two GeForce 8800 ULTRA Cards

Today is the official launch day of NVIDIA's GeForce 8800 Ultra graphics card and Sparkle is one of the first companies revealing final silicon. It comes in two flavors, an 'ordinary' GeForce 8800 Ultra and a beefed up version named Calibre P880 ULTRA. While the first one features 612MHz/2160MHz...

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Not true they made nvidia all the way up and into the DX10 era. Including some fun custom designs like a passive 8800gt. Everything I ever had from them was PCI-E.

The catch is the GPU business isn't all that profitable for the board makers. So a lot of the smaller vendors imploded, it's also why EVGA got out of it. The GPU business really only works for behemoths like ASUS, MSI, and Gigabyte while the smaller companies run on threads.

Sparkle is another case where the cost of the actual chips, complex boards, and all the extra stuff on the boards now simply made the GPU business unworkable on the shitty margins it carries. For all the griping here about GPU prices the reality is the cost of making them has kept going on like crazy and it's not sustinable outside of selling to the workstation and server markets unless the cost of GPUs goes up even more. Sparkle just bolted when a lot of others did as things really started to get out of hand with the 8800 series.

Looks like intels GPUs have some chance at profit though. While that won't drive GPU prices down it will allow some companies to get back into it.

 

[claes]

Please read the thread they’re still making contemporary nvidia cards

What @kiddagoat said. They used to distribute quite a bit to NA and E.U. but afaik they are mostly just in China these days

Colorful-Graphics card

Established in 1995, Colorful is a brand with 20+ year history. Colorful business range covers DIY product lines, including graphics card, motherboard, RAM, SSD, all-in-one PC, server, etc. It is a comprehensive company that holds the largest share in the Chinese graphics card market...

en.colorful.cn