After the Gunnir Arc A380 (test), which gave the editors a week between laughter and tears, the ASRock Arc A380 Challenger is the second custom design based on the low-end Alchemist and relies on the compact and space-saving Mini-ITX format. This means that ASRock is no longer an AMD exclusive partner for the first time.
Alchemist in mini-ITX format
On the Chinese video sharing platform Bilibili, videos for another custom design based on the smaller of the two Arc graphics processors, the Intel ACM-G11 with 1,024 Intel Xe HPG type shader units, have appeared for the first time. This was first pointed out by Twitter user @harukaze5719.
The small graphics card is in Mini-ITX format and is cooled by a single fan. Like the Gunnir Arc A380, which the editors had to face further tests with an AMD Ryzen and OC, ASRock is also based on the well-known manufacturer specifications from Intel.
ASRock Arc A380 Challenger (Image: Bilibili)
The specifications are thus similar to the Gunnir Arc A380 and read as follows:
- Intel Xe HPG (“Alchemist”)
- ACM-G11 with 1,024 shader units
- 6 GB GDDR6 with 15.5 Gbps @ 96-bit
- 4.8 TFLOPS computing power (GPU clock 2,350 MHz)
- 75 to 87 watt TBP
- PCIe 4.0 x8
In a video on the Chinese platform, ASRock Arc A380 is operated on a system with AMD Epyc 7T83, the OEM version of AMD Epyc 7763 on socket SP3 designed for servers, in several scenarios as well as Benchmarks compared with an AMD Radeon RX 6400 and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090.
ASRock does not use AMD for the first time
As the price comparison on ComputerBase shows, the Arc A380 Challenger is the first custom graphics card from ASRock that does not have an AMD GPU. So far, the manufacturer from Taiwan has been AMD's exclusive partner when it comes to graphics cards and only offered models with RDNA and RDNA 2 in its portfolio.
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