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Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2024

Style: A380 Challenger ITX 6GB OCVerified Purchase

The asrock arc380 is a solid card for most needs...if you're a big.time gamer you might sit this one out, but for general computing needs there no reason to spend more. The card appears sturdy, fan is quiet and it's lightweight and I have seen any sag. Great price for a great little card.

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jose barrera

Great price to performance, best in its price class in my opinion.

Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2024

Style: A580 Challenger 8GB OCVerified Purchase

Great graphics card. Purchased for my budget secondary Pc, i7-4790 with Gryphon Z97 motherboard. Definitely needs to have above 4g decoding and rebar enabled for best performance. I was able to mod my bios in order to achieve rebar on such a platform but am happy with the results and this card. I'm getting more than 100-120 fps @1080p ultra settings on the games I play.

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Kudjo Thomas

Still needs improvement but a great all around budget GPU

Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2024

Style: A380 Low Profile 6GBVerified Purchase

After I found out that my integrated GPU was just not going to be good enough, for games especially, I decided that getting a dedicated GPU was going to be necessary. The Asrock Intel Arc A380 Low Profile GPU cost was ultimately the deciding factor despite the A580 only being a few dollars more.

Normally installing GPUs has never been a struggle for me but this GPU was the exception. Despite the low profile, I had some trouble fitting it near my Power Supply a place where I had added a temporary GPU before. Not going to get into details but this lead to some mistakes being made.

My initial test of the GPU lead to another big mistake. Reading the box the Intel Arc GPU's states a minimum requirement of a "10th generation Intel CPUs" was needed. This was not true. I have a 9th gen intel CPU(i9-9900K) and what the motherboard has to support is REBAR as this is something that Arc GPUs are reliant on.

Upgrading my motherboards bios firmware(msi mpg z390m gaming edge ac) allowed me to enable REBAR. After getting this feature, I then discovered that in order to use this feature, it requires a UEFI boot and, you guessed it, my boot was a CSM. Lucky for me, there was a way to change to UEFI without having to do a clean install and so the nightmare of initially setting this card up was over.

One of the first tests I did with the card was overloading my Plex server, and it definitely is a big improvement over my i9-9900K. I was able to transcode at least 3 movies from different devices until the 4th device I tried came up with an error. Still it was amazing to see that it could handle that many transcodes at once if needed.

Next up I did some game emulation testing. I found that with 5th generation consoles like the PlayStation, you can upscale to 4K and I even used 8X MSAA and it did great. With 6th generation(PS2,Xbox,etc..) 4K was possible with certain games but I felt that 1440p had better performance and 2X MSAA may be okay for certain games. With 7th generation(PS3, Wii U,etc..), 1080p was a good as it seems you are going to get.

Now with all that being said, it wasn't a perfect experience. Most of the emulation that I used to get these upscales was with the Vulkan API but other emulators like OpenGL, and Direct X had some big performance issues.

When trying out some 7th and 8th generation PC games, it only confirmed further that is had trouble with the two APIs. I thought I would at least be able to get 1440p and found myself dropping to 1080p to get 60fps on games so that was definitely disappointing.

I also tried using their recording feature and found that it was just to great of a hit to performance to have any sort of use especially if you are someone who likes to record game benchmarks with the RTSS overlay.

Finally, I tried rendering a video I edited a while back in Vegas Pro 21.0 using the Intel Quick Sync(QSV) feature and it, to my recollection, rendered out...maybe, 25s behind the actual time of the video itself which is super impressive and something I wasn't expecting.

As an all around budget GPU, the A380 definitely was worth the price but the issues with the OpenGL and Direct X APIs make me glad I didn't pay more for a higher ARC GPU. I'm aware that they've gradually improved performance for these APIs over time and I'm hopeful that it is going to continue but I definitely can't recommend you purchase this GPU if you're looking to create a budget gaming PC specifically.

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WBM

$100 low end, long life.

Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2024

Style: A380 Low Profile 6GBVerified Purchase

Discrete, low profile, no power required GPU from Intel. Still getting their feet under them with regards to drivers, but if you can pick it up for 90-120 bucks, its worth it. They are going to support it for a good long time so its a great future proofed entry-mid level 1080p gaming card. Runs cool, doesn't need much. Works on Linux.

If you are thinking of buying a used GeForce or Radeon for a similar application, just go with this and understand it's only going to get better with time.

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Michael K.

Mostly good, but insufficient Linux support

Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2024

Style: A380 Challenger ITX 6GB OCVerified Purchase

I got this card because I needed a quiet card for a Linux desktop system.

It IS quiet, but it has an annoying issue: it wouldn’t activate the display after coming back from Suspend mode, unless I detached and reattached the DisplayPort cable.

I ended up returning it and buying a low-end RX 6500 XT, because good Suspend/Resume is a critical capability with today’s electricity prices.

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Wizards

Revised: Video Issues and Lack of Compatibility

Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2024

Style: A380 Low Profile 6GBVerified Purchase

I purchased 2 of these of my sons identical computers they went in with no issues. Downloaded the software/drivers and seemed to work good. graphics look good and performance seemed fine for being a SFF unit. Now with the Bad (Updated) (Both Graphics cards even after having one replaced are both having MAJOR video issues on 1 of the 2 screens connected and the only way to stop it is to turn the computer off and back on. I have tried everything they wanted me to in the trouble shooting and no resolve! these are just past the return window so we are now stuck with these unfortunately!) another thing is that they want you to use the computer manufactures driver's over there own so now you are at the mercy of the computer manufacture to keep this updated. it also makes you go into your bios to change settings which was ok for me but for an average user they may mess something up or not understand what to do. one of the cards keeps screen glitching multiple times a day. I have reseated it and still no resolve I also put it into my other sons pc that hasn't had problems and it still messed up. I now have asked for a replacement from amazon and will update this once the new card has been used to see if the issue is resolved (revised it did not work and now both computers graphics cards have issues). there are still many applications and games that will not work good or work at all with this card due to how new it is (hoping in near future there will be support) You also do not have any fan control of this graphics card and for what i have found they are not planning on letting the user have that control One final note The words OC Edition does not mean Over Clocked! I have asked the manufacture what they mean by it and they stated it is not Overclocked it is just the edition of the card like version. Very deceiving.

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Millie S.

Great for 3d graphics art creation in unreal engine 5

Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2024

Style: A770 Phantom Gaming 16GB OCVerified Purchase

I love this gpu! I’m by no means a gamer so I can’t say how it does in games. I’m a 3d graphics artist who primarily uses Unreal Engine 5.3 and newer. I need at least 16gb (which this is) vram for what I do and prefer to have raytracing and need the latest APIs (Directx openGL OpenCL etc etc etc) and I need something that won’t cook itself especially under full load and make my bedroom feel like a sauna. This checks all those boxes. My only minor and superfluous gripes with this card which didn’t deter me from getting it all and I knew about the from the beginning and honestly didn’t give a you know what are its a big beefy card that uses a decent amount of power (I have a 1000 watt just for headroom for future Ram cpu cooling etc upgrades) it’s a 2.5 slot not a 2 slot so my Matx mobo is down a pcie slot next to this gpu as the cooling fan covers it but I don’t have anything to put in that slot anyway (it’s a pcie x1 and all my AIC cards are pcie x4 x8 and x16 and those are in a different computer altogether) and it has RGB which are pointless to me because my case doesn’t have windows but they are dope looking with the RGB on my mobo so I’m strongly considering a new case but that’s neither here nor there. Another thing I do like about it is it’s quiet which my wife appreciates because my computers are in our bedroom and lately she’s become a light sleeper. This gpu also looks fierce and says I’m mean I’m lean and I’m a gpu rendering machine give me your worst! BRING IT ON!!!! And it backs up it’s smack talk to. I mean the raytracing looks boss the card itself looks badarse it’s cool as a cucumber even under full load it’s 16gb and cheaper than other 16gb on Amazon *cough* Nvidia and AMD *cough* . I got mine for $300 plus tax here on Amazon Nvidia and AMD cards with 16gb raytracing etc cost well over $300 or sometimes over $400 for the same thing (as far as my needs are concerned other people may feel otherwise) and a bonus, you don’t need that pcie 5.0 power connector trash that some RTX cards require. TBH i could have probably just gotten a 750 or 850 watt as I don’t overclock and the rest of the components are pretty reasonable as far as power consumption. I just happened to find a perfectly fine 1000 watt 80 plus gold psu in my basement computer room on a shelf didn’t know what else to do with it so I power this with it. Again probably overkill but I thought it’d be cool. This card I highly recommend for using Unreal Engine Editor especially for large detailed levels with raytracing. Just be aware if you need CUDA this is NOT the card for you. I don’t need CUDA (my other desktop is for that) but I like raytracing and lots of vram and cool and quiet all of which this card has! No you don’t need to do anything fancy like modding coding etc do get this to work with Unreal Engine editor as it is perfectly supported (so forget what people say about absolutely needing RTX or Radeon I did my homework and tested the 4gb Intel arc first and it worked perfectly out of the box and so does this one) I plan on eventually getting a second one for dual gpu setup. No this doesn’t have sli or crossfire by the way. Another nice thing is if you have a 12th gen or newer Intel core cpu with integrated graphics and integrated graphics on your mobo this card works well with that in unreal engine editor at least in my case. So in conclusion if you are using unreal engine editor need 16gb vram raytracing low heat and noise this is the card for you! One last thing it syncs with the RGB on asrock RGB supported hardware as this is asrock as well which I like a lot

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Keith Gold

Solid GPU depending on your Compact Case

Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2024

Style: A380 Low Profile 6GBVerified Purchase

So I picked this up because I had an old Dell Precision 3240 Compact laying around. This is after having picked up the Arc 380 Genie with the same intention. The Genie (NOT this card) had an issue with the stock heat sink hitting components of the MoBo so you couldn't install it.

This review is of the ASRock Intel Arc 380 Low Profile
This GPU moves the heat sink back a little and just enough that if you raise one end of the GPU riser card up, you can slide this card in, push the riser back into place and still close the case without the interference that the Arc380 Genie had. I had never used a full x16 in an x8 slot before, but the system handled it just fine. The 4.0 PCIe card works just fine in it even though the onboard slot is a PCIe 3.0 The card isn't performing at it's best due to 2 factors, but it's still miles ahead of the stock integrated card. (PCIe 3.0 instead of it's capable 4.0 and then also using an x8 slot instead of an x16 slot). This isn't going to get you Top End graphics in today's games, but it should run about as well as a Laptop on standard settings. Given the price tag at about $120, I'd call that a worth it investment for the rig I had, i7 with 32gb of RAM, this GPU rounds the system out into a decent entry level gaming rig as of 2024. You won't be able to push VR through it, but if you had the money for VR, you're likely not looking at this kind of a card anyway.

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Micha

Great value 1080p card

Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2024

Style: A580 Challenger 8GB OCVerified Purchase

It has been few days since i brought this to pair with my i5-12400F, but the performance is amazing for a 170$ card, over 170 fps on War Thunder (max settings) , 80+ fps on warzone on medium, rainbow six on custom settings (medium'ish settings) over 240 fps average, its a solid card that will run more than fine, and in the moment of this review they launched a new driver update, amazing card.
Only "drawback" its it idle watt usage of 39-47w, but with aspm setting on bios can drop into the 25-31w idle.

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msbiofuels

Good AV1 encoder, OK gaming GPU, low power limit

Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2024

Style: A380 Low Profile 6GBVerified Purchase

This is a decent little 1080p GPU. No power connection required, fits in low profile cases, games just fine in 1080p at 60fps, most likely higher. To get the best performance out of it you must TURN ON RESIZE BAR in the BIOS. Other GPUs get negligible benefit from it, but the ARC GPUs are heavily reliant on Resize Bar. Not compatible with VR gaming without some significant iffy workarounds so stick to Nvidia if that's your plan. Otherwise for budget gaming this is a good option. It really shines on video encoding. The only way to get into AV1 encoding cheaper is the a310. The disappointment comes from the artificially low power limit on the card. The full size A380 runs on 75w power, the Pci slot should supply 75w, but Asrock appears to have capped the card at 45w for some reason. I never hit the thermal limits on the cards, because in operation I'm always bouncing off the power limit. The Sparkle A380 Genie appears to support the full 75w TDP in the same profile

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