right now they have the greatest Performance per dollar over AMD and Nvidia right now. AMD and Nvidia dont see Intel as compition right now, which is going to bite them in the ass later when intel releases Battlemage. Intel's first GPUS where a way to get a product out the door that can enable them to size up Their competitors and see where they stand in the GPU power scale. Intels next Graphics cards are gona be Insanely more powerful.
What they are developing from the GPU's they are sticking in their single chip APU's, aiming at the new generation of low power handhelds which AMD has at the moment. I hope this keeps their GPU momentum going strong.
Love to see some new tech options in the cheap end. Sure, one can get a pretty old gpu for $99, but having something new and under warranty with actively updated drivers is really really nice
Theres an arc a380 thats 99 dollars on amazon with 0 reviews and sales, not sure how legit it is. Its being sold by a company that makes prebuilts. It's just not factory oc'd though from what the speeds says.
@sasdas9189 not sure which brand/seller you're looking at but the one I'm talking about is the asrock. It's 119 now. The price went up 20 bucks. 20 bucks might not sound a lot but it is for budget builds
Quick question as to why you ordered an Ms-01 over the HX77g or HX99g with integrated 6xxx series mobile GPU? I get needing more CPU power, but on the GPU side the HX99 seems much better.
Good question. Connectivity, Cpu Power, I can always upgrade the GPU, I'll game on it only occasionally, more for emulation. For the latter, single core power is strong on this one ;)
@@MauroBooBoo How did it work out for gaming? I'm a digital nomad and can't lug a desktop around. My laptop has a 3050m which isn't great. Thinking about doing a minisforums MS-01 with the Arc a310. Seems like it would be small enough to fit in a carry-on. Then I can upgrade to an RTX a2000 in a bit.
@@dsmluck Gotta be honest, my unit gave me problems, the build quality did not satisfy me, maybe it was bad luck. I opened my eyes and Amd seems ahead. Got a Beelink Ser8 and I'm happy with it. For serious gaming, my suggestion is to build a compact desktop. Hope this helps!
I really love how this card holds the size of older Quadro P/T 400-1000 models size - yet instead of going only MiniDP they went with that one full HDMI if you want to connect it to an TV
@@LoremIpsumDolors goodness brotha. I only watch these videos when I wait for my test builds to run lol. But you’re right, I can’t wait either man, there’s a new ai called Devin that does all the stuff a junior dev like me would do but in half the amount of time. Interesting but scary at the same time but hey, it won’t be as lazy as I am right lol. Side note, do any of you fellas who replied own a Retroid Pocket 2s or know enough about emulation? I got a few questions….
I wish, unfortunately the local shops only have the asrock a310 which is a single slot but dual slot sized gpu (those unnecessary heatsink grill man) I'm totally interested in these cards considering the low profile affordable cards are the a310, a380 low profile and rx6400 low profile
@@shaynecarter-murray3127 fr, for some reason even the 3050 6gb now is a pretty good deal non additional power pin gpu for the performance it offers, sub $350 small PC is getting much more interesting.
Seem great. Sadly I can say for sure that for GTA5 you never know what the game will run at, the game runs like ass depends of what chunk of the game you are in and what the game's mood is it in. One moment you can get 60fps in one moment it drops and stutter or even times when the game doesn't even work. And if you can't run it high settings then don't even bother anyway. GTA5 already fried one of my GPUs ever since then I am really causcious wtf I run on my PC. "Games" are basically history at this point that is for sure so no more worries over that. And for the same game I had to change maybe 3 or 4 GPUs total due to simple incompatibility. Like one day it would be fine on ultra settings then a patch gets released and the game doesn't run even on mid settings so I had to change it. The only reason why I even bothered is because I got deals and few friends gave me their spare cards too. But yeah at one point we simply stopped playing games anyway.
For casual gaming is a little good looking HW. Also, GPU manufacturers had forgotten that some of us just want a couple more display outputs and not +9000 FPS with 500W drawing from the PSU.
So... you want to buy this special dedicated digital signage certified card that has million outputs and supports 30 industry standard which you don't need and never heard about 28 of them? we have it only for $1000! That's a steal! Oh wait... you want budget card...? Well... no.
@@Vatharian The joke is on them because I am not buying either of the mentioned. When they make what people actually need and take care of their prices and taste reality of the world then we can talk about new prices. Everything or most are made in China costing peanuts so I am not paying full price for anything EVER unless the price actually is sane. Like a Tesla monitor that costs 100 euros or a Tesla TV that cost 250 euros, I am paying those prices everything above those GOODBYE DONT CARE. Later when people don't buy their s -t the overall value drops and even then they refuse to sell it properly so it ends up in a landfil since barely anything is actually being recycled. The whole recycling fairytale is just that a story for naive kids. 1% gets recycled the rest is in a landfil. Fix your designs, products then add normal prices according to markets and then people will actually buy stuff. Until then good luck milking vapor.
@@baoquoc3710- it has no encoders, so u can't use it for streaming or video editing, but decoders is present so u will be able to watch your 4k youtube
@@rodrigosmmiguelMy is on the way, exactly for this purpose (and the frigate and xyz gazillion things). Also it shoud be capable of vGPU, so split the gpu among multiple VMs. Hope it'll work.
@@JanVokas Are you sure about that ? Level 1 mentioned only Intel Flexgpu's support such functionality, which are very expensive. Would love some cheap card, containing multiple of these gpu's which can be bifurcated over a number of vms
@@marioStortugadid they fix the fan revving bug with the new firmware? Previous version still had the bug. Mine lays in the drawer since purchase due to bug. Its annoying af.
mate, you really need to have even some basic speed comparisons shown when you do the bencharks so we can get even a very rough idea which card this competes with, would it be on par with an AMD RX6400 for instance?
That is sad to hear. Although unlike an RX6400 it might actually fit in my Lenovo Tiny M720q (I'm sure the 6400 would fit with a custom cooler or a terrible hole in the lid, but I don't want to do that)@@ceeam
@@milescarter7803 What do you mean? RX 6400 is the same size as this card, as long as you go for the sensible XFX or Sapphire version. Asus, MSI and Gigabyte made them stupid big to sell them for more money.
Finally!!! I was waiting for this card to be tested cause of it's release and possibilities in older Optiplex or SFF work stations that aren't 10gen or newer Intel. I'm stoked for this!
@@Fractal_32 That's true and means we won't get the most out of the GPU. I did end up testing this out on a Dell Optiplex 7050 SFF with an i5-7600. Was able to average above 90FPS for Fortnite in Performance mode, which was neat!
Not only for "little" gaming and/or transcoding, this card should support gpu "slicing" (vGPU/passthrough) If I'm not mistaken. You can slice it between multiple VMs on single VM host then. The next competitor doing the same thing is nvidia T1000 for ~$400-$500, but without external power there is none. It could come handy for home "labs" enthusiast. Hope it'll work, my is on the way.
@@TauCu to be honest. The card is in actual state piece of brown thing. 1) it is linked only with x1 speed on pcie bus (might be wrongly reported speed/capability/status) 2) problem with constant revving of the fan from 0 to max rpm every 2secs (annoying sound) 3) you need pci memory rebar to be active to have full speed of the card. This is not always possible (motherboard dependent) 4) low profile bracket can't be installed without warranty void (poor design of the plastic fan cover, screw is beneath it). You can tinker with pliers Problem 2 might be solved with firmware update. Even with the latest one from 2nd of April (latest driver release) it didn't. Have mine in drawer for now. Will test with next driver/firmware, because the revving of the fan is really annoying.
@@JanVokas That's... astonishingly broken. Thanks for the heads up. I take it apps like Libre Hardware Monitor/Fan Control can't fix/band-aid the fan speed issue?
@@TauCu Unfortunately not. The drivers lack support for (external) fan control at all and internal fan/thermal control is obviously broken. Hope this is only temporary till the sparkle (intel?) engineers fixes it.
This is now Def the go-to single slot low profile dedicated gpu for Plex servers. the only downside is the wattage being so higher comparatively. but still manageable (now to find an itx mobo that has more than 4 sata ports and a pcie slot....)
That card looks almost like a server GPU already - I'll bet it would be easy to modify simply with a 3D printed shroud to block the fan hole (removing that first) and direct the case fans through it. Minimal necessary modification to do that. The cost is great too, plus the low power consumption, and not needing power input beyond the PCIE rail. Thanks for this review! I'll keep this in mind on my super-tiny server build I'm working on now. (Xeon based ITX-Mini system in the smallest case I can manage to handle the TDP with for home automation/security NVR/web server/media server/etc - various misc. things - this being an Arc card means I'll be able to have it do basic facial recognition on the NVR as well. Neat!) Edit: When I say smallest case I can manage, I have given up on commercially available ones, so I'm building basically a miniature rack mount style PC case myself using acrylic and 3D printed brackets/mounts, only in ITX mini size, using the same 60mm high-powered blower fans found on rack-mount servers. The plan is to make it all a tiny wind tunnel just like servers, so the smaller the GPU, the less size (and airflow) I have to account for. Large scale storage is already handled by a NAS, so it won't need room for drives beyond the onboard SSD. It's been fun picking parts, and I'm finally ordering them now, so this is perfect timing!
@@HinokamiKagura4248 Handhelds are not a great fit for a dGPU, especially one like this where MTL and future LNL can get close to it already. Board space and power are both at even more of a premium in there than in a 14" gaming laptop. The ARC lineup does go down to the A350M, which is basically the same spec, but even that is a 25-35W part. That doubles your power consumption on a lot of these handhelds by itself, and in a lot of cases would nearly triple it as a lot of handhelds run the APU around the 15W mark.
@@DigitalJedi Tiny-PCs and Office PCs are great with this and the A380, I just dropped an A380 into an HP Prodesk 600 G1 so I could have a second PC for my room and the performance actually impresses me compared tostuff like the rx6400 and gtx 1650 since it can game reasonably well for lighter games and I can stream my main PC for heavier games, for comparison the iGPU on that thing struggles with 1080p 30fps and practically has no linux support with current kernels. my next project for this will be a DIY laptop since it's the a380 is the most powerful 75w gpu that fits in the GPU and power budget for the build.
Would love to see graphics score comparisons between this GPU and the m780. It'd be worthwhile to know if it's better off to go with the highest end APU, or a slightly cheaper CPU + this bad boy. Might be cool to know the power draw difference between the two setups too!
I would love to see how this performs in a intel 7th gen optiplex sff or similar and I'm sure lots of your viewers would too. Great upload. Thanks eta 👍
Finally, some RX 6400 competition! More PCIe lanes, more video outputs, AV1, better XeSS upscaler and lower price - and it also looks very cute! Unfortunately we don't have them yet in my country, so I'll just keep salivating over videos like this😂
@user-ny3sk1ur8s Hey, where are you from btw? How much is 1650 for you guys? Here in Russia we have them for about 150$ new and 80$ used. Compared to RX 6400 for about 140$ new and 90$ used. Which is bonkers, because I bought one a year ago for 120$ and even back then I thought it's a bit more than it should be
@user-ny3sk1ur8sGTX 1650 is $170 if you can find them, given that they're no longer being made the A310 for $99 isn't bad performance per dollar plus you get XeSS and AV1 decoding AND encoding so it's great for a living room media and light gaming machine.
@user-ny3sk1ur8sdoesn't support nvenc tho so unless you're just gaming it's not worth. Just like if you're looking for an a310 you're obv not looking to game primarily
No, they have the same driver perf, AMD hasn't had bad drivers since vega really so I don't get why people still use this rumor. In fact a few years back there was a test done on exactly this, and it was determined that AMD had more stable drivers in a stress test. @user-ny3sk1ur8s
@user-ny3sk1ur8s this is half the cost of the low profile 1650 and 1/3 the cost of the low profile single slot 1650, for that it's amazing and for transcoding work you can snag one and put it in any slot alongside your rtx card or RX 6000 series card since these have a massively better AV1 encoder than either nvidia or AMD.
@user-ny3sk1ur8s over here the high profile 1650 is like $50-80 used $120 new, but the low profile versions are astronomically priced and the single slot low profile version is almost only available on aliexpress as it sells out in like 5 seconds anywhere else
Glad this was covered. I found an A380 for a similar price, but w/ the intent of being my transcoding GPU in a Proxmox server. Can't beat the price for what it's good at!
Can this replace the RX 550 4GB in my emulation machine? Interesting question at that price point and what I want to know lol (I'm talking about driver compatibility more than anything)
A310 and A380 make good home theater GPU's, low power and decent to good transcoding capabilities. I'm going to be grabbing an A380 to throw in my proxmox machine for jellyfin.
Good luck changing the bracket without damaging the blue plastic shield. One of the bracket screws is hidden away way under the overhang and I couldn't figure out how to change it - so I got out some shears and cut off a piece of it so I could reach the screw. I tried every which way to do it w/o damaging the unit, but in the end, that was the only way. Other than that issue, great budget card! (My unit shipped with the full bracket attached and I had to cut out a bit to switch the brackets.)
Could you test this card as a secondary card for AV1 and VP9 hardware encoding? Currently thinking into getting a card like this to complement my RX6700 so that i can stream/record better on twitch/YT.
I remember when these bottom end GPUs were only good as a display adapter and for accelerated video decoding. Being able to run a couple years old AAA games at native resolution with low/med settings is crazy.
That's a nifty little card. Could be useful for work stations and media PC indeed. Looks like this plus previous gen CPU will basically be equal to Steamdeck.
It would interesting to see how this performs on an old small form factor office pc like an optiplex, I feel like because of the price this could be a great option.
Some of the reviews say that you can't take off the bracket (to swap to full-height) without taking off the heatsink, and thus voiding the warranty. There are some use cases where you need a single-slot full-height card, and this wouldn't work so well for those.
Wish someone would release a card like this that could perform 4k 60 with a mix of low and medium settings for fighting games and emulation. as even an ITX build is little to big for my living room setup.
finally something to put the gt1030 behind us! costs slightly more for a much better product, not much of a surprise considering how the gt 1030 kept getting slower with a solidified price tag from 2017. I think intel has a lot of potential.
there is the quadro p4 . its essentially a 1080 8gb with a pcie 75 watt limit with no power requirement . it pulls 55 to 60 watt so you can oc it a biut
Would be nice to have included a comparison between the stock igpu vs the a310. Whilst it's a cheap graphics card, it isn't worth buying for anyone who owns the ms-01 if it doesn't offer more than the standard iGPU.
This offers AV1 encoding, you should look at the Arc a380 10 dollars more than the a310 but it has 6gb of vram instead of 4 and is slightly faster than the a310 also more on par with the RX 6400 and GTX 1650.
*@ETAPRIME* The tiny Lenovo *ThinkCentre models m720q, m920q, m90q, p320, p330 & I believe also the m920x each all have an actual PCIe Express Slot* (I believe x8). & there's x16 to x8 adapters/ connector cards (90° angle) made for this mod to add a single slot discrete GPU into the original housing. Some people have done it and drilled or cut holes in the top over the CPU & GPU fans for better airflow. Some have even 3D printed a new top cover/ lid for this upgrade. It'd be nice if you could do a video on it showing newer games running on it. I've seen a couple people do it with A2000 single slot mods. & it'd also be cool to see someone do it with a RX 6400 using Chimera OS. Which that I haven't seen yet (you'd be the 1st). This Arc A310 could also be a nice choice to keep the price down. & those older cheaper Tiny ThinkCentre Office PC's are a lot cheaper & more budget friendly than the MS-01. Could be all in for between $200 - $300 ! Also it seems everyone that's done the GPU upgrade on a 1L mini/ tiny are using the i5 8500t variants of those ThinkCentre models mentioned above.
What I'd love to see is some performance comparisons between this and a few other low profile GPUs. like this guy VS the new 3050 6gig that's low profile, the rx 6400, and wasn't there like an Ark a380 that was low profile? Basically I wouldn't mind seeing how they all compare in performance and price, cuz frankly if this a310 is only 20, maybe 30% slower then the 3050 6 gig but is half the price, it's honestly a pretty compelling option for a low profile system. honestly speaking I'm super tempted to grab one just to make a super low profile system.
I would be really interested to see a single slot rx6400 in the same pc. The test the same games and compare. If you had a ddr5 gt1030, you could compare all three.
please note that the a310 has 96GB/s of bandwith, same as ddr 5-6000 ! so if you overstep its memory limit, it wont be harsh. Now granted, you need a ddr 5 platform. So most ppl who opt for this will most likely have ddr4 still. so thats a BIG drop off !
how did you install the smaller braket? I just got mine and I need to install smaller braket... and I dont see a way but to remove the heatsink... is that normal procedure?
What I find a serious design flaw at this card that it is a blower-style card, yet it has no openings in the bracket to let the hot air go out. It could perform much better with lower temps if it had exhaust holes like any other blower card has.
I'd love to see some benchmark comparisons between this card and the GT1030 and RX 6400 low profile single slot cards. I've just ordered a couple of Dell RX6500 lp single slot cards to put into a couple of sff PCs
Strange seeing lower end Arc performing this decent. I recall when you tested with Asrock A380, the perf is lower particularly with GTA V. Seeing Sparkle has both A380 and A310 in strict 35W TDP without external power, Sparkle might be getting newer Arc hardware revision given how late their products out to the market compared to Asrock
Is it safe to assume that ReBar is a must for this GPU like it is for the higher end ARC GPU's? Just curious seeing as I have an older Dell SFF with a Core-i5 6500 in it and definitely no ReBar settings in the already sparse BIOS/UEFI.
@@talibong9518 True, though it is kind of tricky, it is impressive what the community can do. Apparently it is possible to enable re bar on any system that supports pcie3
I am using mine in a Dell Optiplex 7060 for the AV1 encoder. only problem is the hidden screw for the back plate. OHhhh awesome legendary 3d Mark scores. Also try Port Royal and Speed Way for the LOL's?
but petrucci very good at it and his timing is always perfectly accurate, think hes the only instructor always put more emphasis on metronome, beat, and timing
I really hope Intel doesn't give up on making gpus
right now they have the greatest Performance per dollar over AMD and Nvidia right now. AMD and Nvidia dont see Intel as compition right now, which is going to bite them in the ass later when intel releases Battlemage. Intel's first GPUS where a way to get a product out the door that can enable them to size up Their competitors and see where they stand in the GPU power scale. Intels next Graphics cards are gona be Insanely more powerful.
@@Zesmasthe problem is driver updates, they still need a lot of work before they catch up to AMD and Nvidia.
Battlemage is confirmed to have some cards coming. Celestial we only know of for future iGPUs right now but it does apparently exist.
What they are developing from the GPU's they are sticking in their single chip APU's, aiming at the new generation of low power handhelds which AMD has at the moment. I hope this keeps their GPU momentum going strong.
@Zesmas Performance per Dollar, but unfortunately not Performance per Watt. Still though, happy to see they're improving a lot
Love to see some new tech options in the cheap end. Sure, one can get a pretty old gpu for $99, but having something new and under warranty with actively updated drivers is really really nice
Man the a380 was 99 dollars when it came out. Surprised this one didn't start around 70 to 80
Thought so too. It was on sale though when it was $99 recently.
Theres an arc a380 thats 99 dollars on amazon with 0 reviews and sales, not sure how legit it is. Its being sold by a company that makes prebuilts. It's just not factory oc'd though from what the speeds says.
@sasdas9189 not sure which brand/seller you're looking at but the one I'm talking about is the asrock. It's 119 now. The price went up 20 bucks. 20 bucks might not sound a lot but it is for budget builds
Makes no sense at all. It's $99. It never planned on being priced at anything else.
Would love to see emulation testing of Xbox, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, and Model 3 arcade. Thanks ETA!
Emulation is mostly about the CPU. The GPU is for resolution scaling.
Wrong answer@@Kirby5588
What he said!!!
@@Kirby5588 well just so you know..Xbox 360 emulation DOES need a good GPU.
hard to take this guy seriously when he runs windows and android
This is great! I've just ordered this Ms-01 and this new Gpu is just what I needed. Thank you! Please more content on this amazing little workstation.
Quick question as to why you ordered an Ms-01 over the HX77g or HX99g with integrated 6xxx series mobile GPU? I get needing more CPU power, but on the GPU side the HX99 seems much better.
Good question. Connectivity, Cpu Power, I can always upgrade the GPU, I'll game on it only occasionally, more for emulation. For the latter, single core power is strong on this one ;)
@user-ny3sk1ur8s and how much longer will Nvidia support gtx GPU? 1 year, 2 year? While Intel continue to work wonders with its drivers.
@@MauroBooBoo How did it work out for gaming? I'm a digital nomad and can't lug a desktop around. My laptop has a 3050m which isn't great. Thinking about doing a minisforums MS-01 with the Arc a310. Seems like it would be small enough to fit in a carry-on. Then I can upgrade to an RTX a2000 in a bit.
@@dsmluck Gotta be honest, my unit gave me problems, the build quality did not satisfy me, maybe it was bad luck. I opened my eyes and Amd seems ahead. Got a Beelink Ser8 and I'm happy with it. For serious gaming, my suggestion is to build a compact desktop. Hope this helps!
I really love how this card holds the size of older Quadro P/T 400-1000 models size - yet instead of going only MiniDP they went with that one full HDMI if you want to connect it to an TV
Man this is exactly the kind of media NAS gpu i've been wanting. I hear quicksync h264/h265 and most importantly AV1 encode performance is amazing.
Another day, another ETA Prime video while coding at work
Glad im not the only one.
@@homeyboy67 here too
Can't wait to replace you lazy coders with AI
@@LoremIpsumDolors goodness brotha. I only watch these videos when I wait for my test builds to run lol. But you’re right, I can’t wait either man, there’s a new ai called Devin that does all the stuff a junior dev like me would do but in half the amount of time. Interesting but scary at the same time but hey, it won’t be as lazy as I am right lol.
Side note, do any of you fellas who replied own a Retroid Pocket 2s or know enough about emulation? I got a few questions….
I think they can sell a load of these because it is such an underserved market. Low price, low profile, and low power draw=big sales.
for $69 sure, 99 is a bit much
@@user-lp5wb2rb3vcompared to the 250$ from nvidia and 150$ from AMD I can go for the 99$
I wish, unfortunately the local shops only have the asrock a310 which is a single slot but dual slot sized gpu (those unnecessary heatsink grill man)
I'm totally interested in these cards considering the low profile affordable cards are the a310, a380 low profile and rx6400 low profile
Yea seeing halfway sane prices on small gpus has made me wanna build a slim pc.
@@shaynecarter-murray3127 fr, for some reason even the 3050 6gb now is a pretty good deal non additional power pin gpu for the performance it offers, sub $350 small PC is getting much more interesting.
That's some decent results for such a small card. Great vid mate.
Seem great. Sadly I can say for sure that for GTA5 you never know what the game will run at, the game runs like ass depends of what chunk of the game you are in and what the game's mood is it in. One moment you can get 60fps in one moment it drops and stutter or even times when the game doesn't even work. And if you can't run it high settings then don't even bother anyway.
GTA5 already fried one of my GPUs ever since then I am really causcious wtf I run on my PC. "Games" are basically history at this point that is for sure so no more worries over that. And for the same game I had to change maybe 3 or 4 GPUs total due to simple incompatibility. Like one day it would be fine on ultra settings then a patch gets released and the game doesn't run even on mid settings so I had to change it. The only reason why I even bothered is because I got deals and few friends gave me their spare cards too. But yeah at one point we simply stopped playing games anyway.
For casual gaming is a little good looking HW.
Also, GPU manufacturers had forgotten that some of us just want a couple more display outputs and not +9000 FPS with 500W drawing from the PSU.
So... you want to buy this special dedicated digital signage certified card that has million outputs and supports 30 industry standard which you don't need and never heard about 28 of them? we have it only for $1000! That's a steal!
Oh wait... you want budget card...?
Well... no.
@@Vatharian The joke is on them because I am not buying either of the mentioned. When they make what people actually need and take care of their prices and taste reality of the world then we can talk about new prices.
Everything or most are made in China costing peanuts so I am not paying full price for anything EVER unless the price actually is sane. Like a Tesla monitor that costs 100 euros or a Tesla TV that cost 250 euros, I am paying those prices everything above those GOODBYE DONT CARE.
Later when people don't buy their s -t the overall value drops and even then they refuse to sell it properly so it ends up in a landfil since barely anything is actually being recycled. The whole recycling fairytale is just that a story for naive kids. 1% gets recycled the rest is in a landfil.
Fix your designs, products then add normal prices according to markets and then people will actually buy stuff. Until then good luck milking vapor.
@@minmogrovingstrongandhealthy they know exactly youll come back, and it looks really, really pathetic
It would be helpful to include a chart showing the integrated GPU and 6400 XT performance for comparison.
And the A2000 too.
not going to happen because this channel does product presentations, a comparison doesnt help to sell gpus from the crappy intel
@@betag24cnHe did it with the 3050
@@betag24cn uh, the rx 6400 doesn't even have any hardware acceleration codes, while intel ones had, you didn't know who is crappier than who
@@baoquoc3710- it has no encoders, so u can't use it for streaming or video editing, but decoders is present so u will be able to watch your 4k youtube
I'd love to see the Plex/Jellyfin encoding performance on this card.
I was thinking exactly about this. Might be a good replacement for the old Nvidia quadro P400.
@@rodrigosmmiguelMy is on the way, exactly for this purpose (and the frigate and xyz gazillion things). Also it shoud be capable of vGPU, so split the gpu among multiple VMs. Hope it'll work.
@@JanVokas Are you sure about that ? Level 1 mentioned only Intel Flexgpu's support such functionality, which are very expensive. Would love some cheap card, containing multiple of these gpu's which can be bifurcated over a number of vms
I have it on my plex it works phenomenal. Zero complaints
@@marioStortugadid they fix the fan revving bug with the new firmware? Previous version still had the bug. Mine lays in the drawer since purchase due to bug. Its annoying af.
mate, you really need to have even some basic speed comparisons shown when you do the bencharks so we can get even a very rough idea which card this competes with, would it be on par with an AMD RX6400 for instance?
RX6400 is approx. 60% faster, check techpowerup instead of here.
It's almost twice slower than RX6400.
That is sad to hear. Although unlike an RX6400 it might actually fit in my Lenovo Tiny M720q (I'm sure the 6400 would fit with a custom cooler or a terrible hole in the lid, but I don't want to do that)@@ceeam
@@milescarter7803 What do you mean? RX 6400 is the same size as this card, as long as you go for the sensible XFX or Sapphire version. Asus, MSI and Gigabyte made them stupid big to sell them for more money.
@@janbenes3165 You might make sense if Asus and Sapphire 6400 cards weren't the exact same price lol
Finally!!! I was waiting for this card to be tested cause of it's release and possibilities in older Optiplex or SFF work stations that aren't 10gen or newer Intel. I'm stoked for this!
Intel ARC loves Resizable Bar, older platforms don’t have this feature.
@@Fractal_32 That's true and means we won't get the most out of the GPU.
I did end up testing this out on a Dell Optiplex 7050 SFF with an i5-7600.
Was able to average above 90FPS for Fortnite in Performance mode, which was neat!
Not only for "little" gaming and/or transcoding, this card should support gpu "slicing" (vGPU/passthrough) If I'm not mistaken. You can slice it between multiple VMs on single VM host then. The next competitor doing the same thing is nvidia T1000 for ~$400-$500, but without external power there is none. It could come handy for home "labs" enthusiast. Hope it'll work, my is on the way.
How did it go?
@@TauCu to be honest. The card is in actual state piece of brown thing.
1) it is linked only with x1 speed on pcie bus (might be wrongly reported speed/capability/status)
2) problem with constant revving of the fan from 0 to max rpm every 2secs (annoying sound)
3) you need pci memory rebar to be active to have full speed of the card. This is not always possible (motherboard dependent)
4) low profile bracket can't be installed without warranty void (poor design of the plastic fan cover, screw is beneath it). You can tinker with pliers
Problem 2 might be solved with firmware update. Even with the latest one from 2nd of April (latest driver release) it didn't.
Have mine in drawer for now. Will test with next driver/firmware, because the revving of the fan is really annoying.
@@JanVokas That's... astonishingly broken. Thanks for the heads up.
I take it apps like Libre Hardware Monitor/Fan Control can't fix/band-aid the fan speed issue?
@@TauCu Unfortunately not. The drivers lack support for (external) fan control at all and internal fan/thermal control is obviously broken. Hope this is only temporary till the sparkle (intel?) engineers fixes it.
@@JanVokas i thought the low-profile bracket is shipped together with the card?
This is now Def the go-to single slot low profile dedicated gpu for Plex servers. the only downside is the wattage being so higher comparatively. but still manageable
(now to find an itx mobo that has more than 4 sata ports and a pcie slot....)
That card looks almost like a server GPU already - I'll bet it would be easy to modify simply with a 3D printed shroud to block the fan hole (removing that first) and direct the case fans through it. Minimal necessary modification to do that. The cost is great too, plus the low power consumption, and not needing power input beyond the PCIE rail. Thanks for this review! I'll keep this in mind on my super-tiny server build I'm working on now. (Xeon based ITX-Mini system in the smallest case I can manage to handle the TDP with for home automation/security NVR/web server/media server/etc - various misc. things - this being an Arc card means I'll be able to have it do basic facial recognition on the NVR as well. Neat!)
Edit: When I say smallest case I can manage, I have given up on commercially available ones, so I'm building basically a miniature rack mount style PC case myself using acrylic and 3D printed brackets/mounts, only in ITX mini size, using the same 60mm high-powered blower fans found on rack-mount servers. The plan is to make it all a tiny wind tunnel just like servers, so the smaller the GPU, the less size (and airflow) I have to account for. Large scale storage is already handled by a NAS, so it won't need room for drives beyond the onboard SSD. It's been fun picking parts, and I'm finally ordering them now, so this is perfect timing!
If these can effectively support Steam Deck OS, eventually, then they represent very, very interesting possibilities.
Yes they have support for Linux.
Anyone looking to upgrade their media server without replacing their mobo and cpu should get this. Runs laps around nvenc.
INTEL! YOU ARE DOING GOD’S WORK! DO NOT STOP!
Not bad intel, keep cooking 😮
Honestly I think intel needs to make mobile gpus based on ARC 310 LP for handheld PCs, just my opinion 😊
@@HinokamiKagura4248 Handhelds are not a great fit for a dGPU, especially one like this where MTL and future LNL can get close to it already. Board space and power are both at even more of a premium in there than in a 14" gaming laptop. The ARC lineup does go down to the A350M, which is basically the same spec, but even that is a 25-35W part. That doubles your power consumption on a lot of these handhelds by itself, and in a lot of cases would nearly triple it as a lot of handhelds run the APU around the 15W mark.
@@DigitalJedi Tiny-PCs and Office PCs are great with this and the A380, I just dropped an A380 into an HP Prodesk 600 G1 so I could have a second PC for my room and the performance actually impresses me compared tostuff like the rx6400 and gtx 1650 since it can game reasonably well for lighter games and I can stream my main PC for heavier games, for comparison the iGPU on that thing struggles with 1080p 30fps and practically has no linux support with current kernels.
my next project for this will be a DIY laptop since it's the a380 is the most powerful 75w gpu that fits in the GPU and power budget for the build.
Would love to see graphics score comparisons between this GPU and the m780. It'd be worthwhile to know if it's better off to go with the highest end APU, or a slightly cheaper CPU + this bad boy. Might be cool to know the power draw difference between the two setups too!
That's cool, I might pick one up for my OpenBSD machine
Regardless of the perform, this card looks so clean in that case. Perfect fit.
I would love to see how this performs in a intel 7th gen optiplex sff or similar and I'm sure lots of your viewers would too. Great upload. Thanks eta 👍
I have a 7060 sff I think 8th gen cpu. I might try this thing. Do you think it would work?
@@caltagos this is pcie gen 4. 8th gen intel maybe pcie gen 3? Maybe it will work.
Make sure Resizable Bar is enabled in the BIOS.
Bro this is a310 you watching old ass reviews for different intel GpUs with issues present that are not present in this GPU.
@@zar7511 Does my comment bother you that much that you have to reply, seriously?
@@TheZorch cry about it.
@@zar7511 this doesnt need rebar? Genuinely curious I have a dell optiplex without rebar
Finally, some RX 6400 competition! More PCIe lanes, more video outputs, AV1, better XeSS upscaler and lower price - and it also looks very cute!
Unfortunately we don't have them yet in my country, so I'll just keep salivating over videos like this😂
@user-ny3sk1ur8s Hey, where are you from btw? How much is 1650 for you guys? Here in Russia we have them for about 150$ new and 80$ used. Compared to RX 6400 for about 140$ new and 90$ used. Which is bonkers, because I bought one a year ago for 120$ and even back then I thought it's a bit more than it should be
@user-ny3sk1ur8sGTX 1650 is $170 if you can find them, given that they're no longer being made the A310 for $99 isn't bad performance per dollar plus you get XeSS and AV1 decoding AND encoding so it's great for a living room media and light gaming machine.
@user-ny3sk1ur8sdoesn't support nvenc tho so unless you're just gaming it's not worth. Just like if you're looking for an a310 you're obv not looking to game primarily
No, they have the same driver perf, AMD hasn't had bad drivers since vega really so I don't get why people still use this rumor. In fact a few years back there was a test done on exactly this, and it was determined that AMD had more stable drivers in a stress test. @user-ny3sk1ur8s
You don't need more PCIe lanes lol.
A 4090 would saturate PCIe 4.0 x8, but this Arc card wouldn't.
Finally, a new entry level GPU
@user-ny3sk1ur8s this is half the cost of the low profile 1650 and 1/3 the cost of the low profile single slot 1650, for that it's amazing and for transcoding work you can snag one and put it in any slot alongside your rtx card or RX 6000 series card since these have a massively better AV1 encoder than either nvidia or AMD.
@user-ny3sk1ur8s over here the high profile 1650 is like $50-80 used $120 new, but the low profile versions are astronomically priced and the single slot low profile version is almost only available on aliexpress as it sells out in like 5 seconds anywhere else
Lol, goodbye GT 710
Glad this was covered. I found an A380 for a similar price, but w/ the intent of being my transcoding GPU in a Proxmox server. Can't beat the price for what it's good at!
I can really see this being useful for streamers that don't want to have a seperate computer for streaming.
Cute and capable.
Thanks for the review.
Can this replace the RX 550 4GB in my emulation machine? Interesting question at that price point and what I want to know lol
(I'm talking about driver compatibility more than anything)
No. RX 6400 or RTX 3050 6GB at that point.
Go for the 6gb galaxy sparkle a380 low profile instead. Really cheap and will do the job perfectly
unless space and power usage is a big deal you can get a 5500xt for the price of one of these, or save a little more and get a 6600
God I wanna test out an A380 so badly, but I don't have a 10th gen PC or an AM4 motherboard with PCI-E Gen 4 on me to shove it into@@FilthEffect
unless you have alc1200 onboard audio, yes it is
but really dont use pk3 lmao
Finally someone review this gpu
The perfect SFF GPU for emulation stations. Cant wait to see how intel progresses.
A310 and A380 make good home theater GPU's, low power and decent to good transcoding capabilities. I'm going to be grabbing an A380 to throw in my proxmox machine for jellyfin.
I run an A380 in my Plex server for the AV1 capabilities, runs great and it only spins up the fan when needed so it's silent most of the time.
Good luck changing the bracket without damaging the blue plastic shield. One of the bracket screws is hidden away way under the overhang and I couldn't figure out how to change it - so I got out some shears and cut off a piece of it so I could reach the screw. I tried every which way to do it w/o damaging the unit, but in the end, that was the only way. Other than that issue, great budget card! (My unit shipped with the full bracket attached and I had to cut out a bit to switch the brackets.)
it wouldn't be your niche, but that ms01 and an intel card this small would make for an absolutely killer jellyfin/plex server
Could you test this card as a secondary card for AV1 and VP9 hardware encoding? Currently thinking into getting a card like this to complement my RX6700 so that i can stream/record better on twitch/YT.
I remember when these bottom end GPUs were only good as a display adapter and for accelerated video decoding. Being able to run a couple years old AAA games at native resolution with low/med settings is crazy.
man this is incredible i thought it was a really bad gpu but i see is way way WAY more than i expected
Would love to see an apples to apples comparison against the rx6400 LP
That's a nifty little card. Could be useful for work stations and media PC indeed.
Looks like this plus previous gen CPU will basically be equal to Steamdeck.
It would interesting to see how this performs on an old small form factor office pc like an optiplex, I feel like because of the price this could be a great option.
I'm curious about this, too. I'd really like to see how the lack of reBAR affects the performance of these lower-end Arc cards.
@user-ny3sk1ur8s Not is not
GTX 1650 lp = $269 AUD
A310 sparkle = $177 AUD
Some of the reviews say that you can't take off the bracket (to swap to full-height) without taking off the heatsink, and thus voiding the warranty. There are some use cases where you need a single-slot full-height card, and this wouldn't work so well for those.
about voltage offset and thermal limit it can shorten lifespan of basically any gpus so if you want to do that you should know this
Wish someone would release a card like this that could perform 4k 60 with a mix of low and medium settings for fighting games and emulation. as even an ITX build is little to big for my living room setup.
finally something to put the gt1030 behind us! costs slightly more for a much better product, not much of a surprise considering how the gt 1030 kept getting slower with a solidified price tag from 2017. I think intel has a lot of potential.
i have works unfinished, likely my success there, but you can see in however way you want, see how the result will become
i know you didnt mean smth bad, just stating opinion generally, not really replying
This video card has incorporated AV1 codec. Would you consider test codecs performance? What bout emulation?
I know this is slightly stronger than iGPUs. I still have high hopes for intel. Keep it up.
damn whats the case in thumbnail with the wood front panel please ? It looks gorgeous
this is actually brilliant for older CPUs
No, rebar
@@quisqueyanguy120Rebar 😂 bro this has been fixed you watching old ass videos plus man this is a a310.
what I want to know is how good its video encoding performance is
Being this usable first generation is very impressive big upps to their driver development team also
This is such perfection for AV1 :O.
Would love to see this running emulators, would honestly be an awesome lil card in a sff pc
I really want to know how the av1 encoding performances on this!
afaik av1 is owned by intel, and youtube will (or already it seems) using it for video codec
so yeah yipee for intel cpu users i guess
there is the quadro p4 . its essentially a 1080 8gb with a pcie 75 watt limit with no power requirement . it pulls 55 to 60 watt so you can oc it a biut
I wonder how much the lack of Rebar will affect this GPU?
Better option for a backup card
Too expensive for that.
Emulation test? Love the Intel gpus
a good option for an optiplex or something like that. a good price at least. thank you!
Would be nice to have included a comparison between the stock igpu vs the a310. Whilst it's a cheap graphics card, it isn't worth buying for anyone who owns the ms-01 if it doesn't offer more than the standard iGPU.
How does this compare to the similar options from AMD and NVIDIA?
This offers AV1 encoding, you should look at the Arc a380 10 dollars more than the a310 but it has 6gb of vram instead of 4 and is slightly faster than the a310 also more on par with the RX 6400 and GTX 1650.
@@JoeHoeDoesSomething Nice! I have an Optiplex 7050SFF so I've felt like maybe I'm trapped with the RX 6400 lol. I'll look I to the a310. Thank you 😊
@@DaarkCloudFor an optiplex or older CPUs Intel doesn't recommend using the arc gpus so I'd maybe stay with the RX 6400
@@JoeHoeDoesSomething Ah, fair enough haha. The now ancient i7-7700 👴
*@ETAPRIME* The tiny Lenovo *ThinkCentre models m720q, m920q, m90q, p320, p330 & I believe also the m920x each all have an actual PCIe Express Slot* (I believe x8). & there's x16 to x8 adapters/ connector cards (90° angle) made for this mod to add a single slot discrete GPU into the original housing. Some people have done it and drilled or cut holes in the top over the CPU & GPU fans for better airflow. Some have even 3D printed a new top cover/ lid for this upgrade. It'd be nice if you could do a video on it showing newer games running on it. I've seen a couple people do it with A2000 single slot mods. & it'd also be cool to see someone do it with a RX 6400 using Chimera OS. Which that I haven't seen yet (you'd be the 1st). This Arc A310 could also be a nice choice to keep the price down. & those older cheaper Tiny ThinkCentre Office PC's are a lot cheaper & more budget friendly than the MS-01. Could be all in for between $200 - $300 !
Also it seems everyone that's done the GPU upgrade on a 1L mini/ tiny are using the i5 8500t variants of those ThinkCentre models mentioned above.
i honestly dont care and dont want to get saddened by this awful belonging hiding action, which dont benefit me in any way
What I'd love to see is some performance comparisons between this and a few other low profile GPUs. like this guy VS the new 3050 6gig that's low profile, the rx 6400, and wasn't there like an Ark a380 that was low profile? Basically I wouldn't mind seeing how they all compare in performance and price, cuz frankly if this a310 is only 20, maybe 30% slower then the 3050 6 gig but is half the price, it's honestly a pretty compelling option for a low profile system. honestly speaking I'm super tempted to grab one just to make a super low profile system.
Would have been good if you could have done comparison charts to the RX550.. that is still a 'go to' for budget builds in single slot / low height etc
I would be really interested to see a single slot rx6400 in the same pc. The test the same games and compare. If you had a ddr5 gt1030, you could compare all three.
Actually pretty impressive when considering its specs.
Low profile and powerful. To bring a casual PC enough digital horsepower to run with the specs they got, this is amazing!
please note that the a310 has 96GB/s of bandwith, same as ddr 5-6000 ! so if you overstep its memory limit, it wont be harsh. Now granted, you need a ddr 5 platform. So most ppl who opt for this will most likely have ddr4 still. so thats a BIG drop off !
now if Intel would just make one of these for data centers that transcoded or encoded large amounts on the fly. netflix, youtube, etc would love it
I have an ancient GT 730 2gb ddr 5 card in my mame/retroarch arcade cabinet... this looks like a great little card... just needs to drop by $20
Please turn up the volume for future videos, it's hard to hear anything.
Amazing for older games (2020 and down) and less demanding new games. For 100 dollars thats great
I think that i9 really carried the GPU
900p is such a good balance between visuals and performance. It’s sad that game devs just kind of forgot about that resolution.
Great mini gpu, intel keep it up!
Could please include emulation numbers and also run on a older system without resizable bars memory.
how did you install the smaller braket? I just got mine and I need to install smaller braket... and I dont see a way but to remove the heatsink... is that normal procedure?
p.s. I ended up drilling a hole in the plastic cover 😔
Wow that's pretty decent for the price and size
Might have to throw together a lil Dell Optiplex i5 build with this
What's the PC case that you have featured in the thumbnail for this video?
you should check out the Nvidia T1000, its a nice perfoming Low Profile Single Slot GPU that comes with 4gb and 8gb Vram.
What I find a serious design flaw at this card that it is a blower-style card, yet it has no openings in the bracket to let the hot air go out. It could perform much better with lower temps if it had exhaust holes like any other blower card has.
I would love to see a build with the Nvidia Tesla p4. I'm guessing it could be used, similarly to the Tesla m40 When that craze happened.
This is a baller media PC video card! I really hope Intel keeps up the video card business.
I just picked this up…. So underrated. Shhh
I'd love to see some benchmark comparisons between this card and the GT1030 and RX 6400 low profile single slot cards. I've just ordered a couple of Dell RX6500 lp single slot cards to put into a couple of sff PCs
It would be awesome to see how this GPU works on older Intel CPUs. Like the ones you have on Elitedesk 800 G3/4 SFF
I want this just as a dedicated AV1 Encoder on my NAS.
Great video, but what about an absolute budget intel build?
I3 12100
H610
Arc 310?
Yes
Strange seeing lower end Arc performing this decent. I recall when you tested with Asrock A380, the perf is lower particularly with GTA V. Seeing Sparkle has both A380 and A310 in strict 35W TDP without external power, Sparkle might be getting newer Arc hardware revision given how late their products out to the market compared to Asrock
Is it safe to assume that ReBar is a must for this GPU like it is for the higher end ARC GPU's? Just curious seeing as I have an older Dell SFF with a Core-i5 6500 in it and definitely no ReBar settings in the already sparse BIOS/UEFI.
You might be able to mod the bios to get rebar support
There might be, some old computers still get re-bar support in updated drivers/bios.
@@talibong9518 True, though it is kind of tricky, it is impressive what the community can do. Apparently it is possible to enable re bar on any system that supports pcie3
I am using mine in a Dell Optiplex 7060 for the AV1 encoder. only problem is the hidden screw for the back plate. OHhhh awesome legendary 3d Mark scores. Also try Port Royal and Speed Way for the LOL's?
This MS01 is a beast, really sad that it can not fit a 4060 8GB low profile, it will be a perfect combination
To be fair a lot of things are faster than I think. My thoughts tend to be pretty disorganized and delayed
i think speed is good to train fingers, not exactly for music composition
but petrucci very good at it and his timing is always perfectly accurate, think hes the only instructor always put more emphasis on metronome, beat, and timing
Very good video, you need to turn down your noise gate though, it is noticeably too aggressive.
noise sounds rock anyways
If they double cache on their next release card will be pretty fast
Now, pair it to Pentium or Celeron or maybe i3 12th Gen
Seems decent for what it is. Would be nice to know how this stacks up with AMD's APUs.