Sparkle Intros Arc A310 OmniView Graphics Card with 4x HDMI and 50 W Board Power

[btarunr]

Sparkle introduced an interesting new graphics card meant for those with four high-resolution displays tied to a workstation, or a digital-signage setup. The new Arc A310 OmniView is based on an underclocked version of the Intel Arc A310 "Alchemist," with the idea being to cap the card at 50 W typical power. The card comes with a 1.00 GHz GPU clock and 15.5 Gbps memory speed, compared to the reference A310, which ticks at 1.75 GHz, but at 75 W typical board power. The card comes with 6 Xe cores, and a 64-bit wide memory interface, pulling 4 GB of GDDR6 memory. The A310 OmniView features a single-slot, full-height design, with no additional power connectors. It uses a simple fan-heatsink to keep cool. Perhaps the most striking aspect of the card is its display I/O, featuring four HDMI 2.0b ports, each of which can drive a 4K display at 60 Hz. The card is 14.5 cm long, and 10.5 cm tall. The company didn't reveal pricing.



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[Solaris17]

Weird, but for signage it would probably be fine. That cooler is 10000% more then a 310 needs so it can probably hang out in some balmy conditions for a bit. For office PCs that are atleast limited by power, I would still shoot for literally any other A310 over this.

 

[Prima.Vera]

Wait. Why the crappy HDMI 2.0b instead of the most recent HDMI 2.1b which has x3 times more bandwidth and can run 10K @100Hz even??
Also 4K 144Hz displays are quite common nowadays....

 

[dir_d]

How does it transcode? Ill throw it in my Jellyfin server

 

[Solaris17]

Wait. Why the crappy HDMI 2.0b instead of the most recent HDMI 2.1b which has x3 times more bandwidth and can run 10K @100Hz even??
Also 4K 144Hz displays are quite common nowadays....

Billboards are not 4k 144hz displays. They are less than 512x512 in most cases, but this machine might drive both sides.

How does it transcode? Ill throw it in my Jellyfin server

Get the 310eco or skip straight to 380 if you want something with quieter fans.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Most people don't know Matrox is still around and use ARC. They call it the Luma series "aimed at high-reliability and embedded PC applications in the medical, digital signage, control room, video wall, and industrial markets." Perhaps this Sparkle is meant to compete against Luma?

https://video.matrox.com/en/media/press-releases/2023/matrox-video-announces-luma-graphics-cards

 

[RayneYoruka]

How does it transcode? Ill throw it in my Jellyfin server

+2 I'm really curious. I just want to move to Av1 but I don't want to ditch my 3060 12G in my dedicated encoding machine HMMM

 

[Ferrum Master]

LoL. I just tried my ARC 310 in Linux two days ago.

No Fan control, the default ramp is retarded. No temp sensors.

Wonky drivers, missing firmware, uncertainty what's what in latest kernel, if you are on LTS then again pain, backport or out of tree driver, all the good stuff.

There will be a major screw up regarding transcoding and intel drivers. Intel quick sync was painless, but they will screw it, well it is limited to 8bits, so it will die either way.

So regarding jellyfin, it works, but is waay too noisy. Linux driver state is pretty wonky to be honest.

Few cents, remember to have ASPM on, for transcoding rebar is not needed really. ASPM causes problems for other devices, like dreaded Intel NICs so keep in mind that.

 

[yfn_ratchet]

I, for one, welcome an era of cheap display adapters absolutely loaded with video outputs. I absolutely hate having to decide between overpaying, only having a single DP/HDMI each, or having to deal with cards so geriatric that they still have a 1080p DVI output and went out of driver support years ago.

Would be cute if they redid the ECO with four mini-DP outputs. Would be a lifesaver for those half-height office boxes.

 

[Scrizz]

I, for one, welcome an era of cheap display adapters absolutely loaded with video outputs. I absolutely hate having to decide between overpaying, only having a single DP/HDMI each, or having to deal with cards so geriatric that they still have a 1080p DVI output and went out of driver support years ago.

same. I hated always having to buy a gt710 or equivalent just for a cheap video out solution.

 

[Prima.Vera]

Billboards are not 4k 144hz displays. They are less than 512x512 in most cases, but this machine might drive both sides.

If that's the use of this card, then fair enough.