The manufacturer pulls out an Arc A380 Challenger ITX 6GB OC to keep Gunnir company.
The first Arc Alchemist desktop graphics card entered the arena on June 15th. At the time of its release, the only model available was signed Gunnir. This reference is no longer alone, and must now share the poster with an ASRock graphics card.
A small template cooled by a single fan
While Gunnir’s board has a cooling system with two fans, ASRock’s is cooled by a single fan. The card is a flyweight at 190 x 124 x 39mm. It occupies two slots and draws its energy from a single 8-pin power connector.
ASRock reports a GPU frequency of 2250 MHz. This reference still has 6 GB of GDDR6 with a memory frequency of 15.5 Gbit/s, on a 96-bit bus.
This corresponds to the latest official specifications of the A380: Intel had changed them shortly after the launch. The modification concerned more precisely the memory speed: it was 16 Gbit/s initially. Mechanically, the memory bandwidth has dropped: it has gone from 192 GB/s to 186 GB/s.
Finally, this Arc A380 Challenger ITX 6GB OC offers three DisplayPort 2.0 and an HDMI 2.0b port. It uses a PCI 4.0 x8 interface.
A card still not marketed in France
The performance of the Arc A380 is not sensational, far from it. And the graphics card even allows itself to be delicate: it works even less well with AMD CPUs. To make up for it a bit, however, it has good overclocking potential.
Like Gunnir’s, ASRock’s Arc A380 remains confined to the Chinese market for the time being. Retailers offer it at a price of 1299 RMB, or 189 euros in gross conversion.
Intel must expand its range of desktop graphics cards with better equipped Arc A750/A770 in the coming weeks. Some of their characteristics remain to be confirmed but we know that they have respectively 8 and 16 GB of GDDR6.
Source : ASRock
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