Summary
Sparkle has announced a new partnership with Intel and unveiled its new lineup of Arc GPUs. Dubbed the GENIE series of cards, the lineup includes the Intel Arc A380 and A310. They join the previously announced TITAN, ORC, and ELF series cards which have been available for purchase through some US retailers and are priced quite competitively. As the name suggests, the TITAN series cards are top-of-the-line and come with a triple fan cooler design, as opposed to dual and single-fan offerings in the other series.
Sparkle has been in the industry for quite some time, providing embedded GPU solutions, thunderbolt docks, industrial GPUs, and more. With the onset of Intel’s Arc platform of GPUs, Sparkle is getting into theconsumer gaming GPU space. It first unveiled its TITAN, ORC, and ELF series of graphics cards at Computex, where it showcased some of the cards in the lineup. For now, the company offers the Sparkle Intel Arc A770/A750 TITAN, the Arc A750 ORC, and the A380 ELF series.
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At Computex, not a lot of details were available about the low-profile Arc A3 series cards, but they have now been showcased as the Arc A380 and A310 GENIE series. They have a low-profile single-fan single-slot design that resembles some of the GPUs of yore. These low-powered GPUs do not have a price tag yet, and it is unclear when they will go on sale. As for specifications, these will come with either 8 Xe-Cores and 6GB GDDR6 96-bit memory or 6 Xe-Cores and 4GB of GDDR6 64-bit memory.
Comparable GPU Alternatives
As for Sparkle GPUs currently available for purchase, the Sparkle Intel Arc A750 TITAN OC Edition with 8GB DDR6 VRAM is priced at $260 on Amazon. It is $10 cheaper than theAcer Predator BiFrostArc A750 which has a tried and tested blower-style cooling design with two fans. However, Intel’s own Arc 750 is priced at $220, but that difference in price will likely show in the less efficient cooling system on the Intel card. More importantly, the price tag of the Sparkle Intel Arc A750 TITAN OC Edition puts it alongside the Radeon RX7600 GPUs from Asrock, MSI, Gigabyte, and others. Notably, while theIntel Arc A750 generally performs worse than the Radeon RX7600, the difference is negligible.
Intel Arc A750 Limited Edition 8GB Graphics Card
The Intel Arc A750 is a dual-slot GPU that aims to cater to the entry-level/mid-range GPU market audience as it offers excellent performance coupled with a price that makes it compete with AMD and Nvidia’s lower-end offerings.
Gigabyte Radeon RX 7600 Gaming OC
The Gigabyte Radeon RX 7600 Gaming OC is a triple-fan dual-slot graphics card that brings Gigabyte’s effective WINDFORCE cooling technology. It has three 80mm fans with alternate spinning that work alongside the five composite copper heat pipes that directly touch the GPU. The GPU uses the highest-grade metal chokes, 2oz copper PCB, lower ESR solid capacitors, and lower RDS(on) MOSFETs, among other features.
The Sparkle Intel Arc A750 is also available in the ORC series and the A750 ORC OC Edition, with the same 8GB GDDR6 VRAM, is priced at $240. It comes with a dual-fan design. This makes it an even more competitive offering considering how close the Intel Arc A750 comes to the Radeon RX7600 GPUs. Lastly, the Sparkle Intel Arc A380 ELF with 6GB GDDR6 VRAM is available for purchase for $140. This single fan short GPU will fit in most small form factor cases and deliver performance on the lines of the slightly more expensive but older Radeon RX 6400, Nvidia’s GTX 1650 Super, or GTX 1650.
Zotac GeForce GTX 1650 Super Twin Fan
The Zotac GeForec GTX 1650 Super Twin Fan offers excellent performance in an impressively tiny package. This GPU is 6.3 inches long is a Dual-slot card. Running at 1530 MHz this card offers excellent 1080p gaming and a price that matches most people’s budgets.
MSI Gaming GeForce GTX 1650 GPU
The MSI Gaming GeForce GTX 1650 is a graphics card featuring the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 chipset. It operates with a boost clock speed of 1620 MHz and is equipped with 4GB GDDR6 video memory. The memory speed of this card is 12 Gbps, and it has a 128-bit memory interface. The card supports a maximum digital resolution of 7680x4320, providing high-quality visuals for gaming and other multimedia applications.
PNY GeForce GTX 1650 4GB GDDR6 Dual Fan Graphics Card
The PNY GeForce GTX 1650 is the ideal graphics card for gamers on a budget or building a compact power-efficient rig. This PNY graphics card maximizes the potential of the NVIDIA Turing architecture, with variable rate shading, mesh shading, and multi-view rendering. The PNY GeForce GTX 1650 requires a system running only a 300-watt or greater power supply.
