This card is EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD for transforming an old computer into a AV1 transcoding BEHEMOTH. Being able to render frames that make games playable is a mere "plus" to this card. I sincerely request you make a video demonstrating Intel QSV AV1 using handbrake on some 4K 10bit video...
Same here. I'm currently on a i9/3070Ti combo but when I build a desktop again I want to go all Intel for every component if possible. And it not perform like a joke.
@Gamerloaders Actually their AI accelerated datacenter products comprise well under half their earnings compared to their client computing segment, you can find such information in their Q1 earnings report. Also, their data center product earnings also include their Xeon lineups which are still leveraged heavily in datacenters. They include so many products under the same umbrella deliberately to make it harder for people to know how successful or unsuccessful any one product is, but it's certain that AI is not Intel's most successful industry by a long shot.
that video honestly sucks and shame on him for not pointing out he had to dismantle the entire card to use the included low profile bracket. It also "Voids" your warranty so good luck with that rma claim if it ever dies. (they added a warranty void if remove sticker you 100% have to take off)
@@skylarhasmail666 just so you know, those "warranty void if removed" stickers are unenforceable in the US and EU, I don't know about elsewhere in the world
@@Collin_J doesn't mean they should be doing it, and your overlooking the bigger annoyance instead of 1 external screw like 99% of gpu's they put that single screw under everything else if u want to switch the bracket which means u have to "void" the warranty potentially before u can even test it. Higher chance of the seller claiming u broke it and denying the refund
@@FunkyM217i mean now is already the best value u can get from a graphic card...on maybe out of all years lol Stuff are cheap as hell rn minus the high end RTX...of coz
I feel like this gpu would be a lot more appealing if it wasn't for the Resizable Bar requirement, seems like the perfect card to upgrade an old office pc or something like that.
@@raptorjeezus2607 You might actually have it. Re-bar is simple thing, and you can get it by just updating BIOS on your mobo or some other funny buisness if board is old and is not supported anymore (but its like really old stuff, cause even 2018 boards are still somewhat supported).
@@raptorjeezus2607 a 10400's motherboard shouuld support ReBar, I recently was using a 9600k and I just had to update my motherboards BIOS to enable ReBar via the motherboards website.
I was gonna get one of these for AV1 encoding, but ended up throwing 100€ more at it to get an A580 because a card that could theoretically run 2024 games pretty well is a more fun prospect. Fantastic Linux desktop experience and no issues getting the video codec going in OBS/mpv.
They are if you never run into issues but unfortunately if you play many games chances are you will. AMD cards offer similar performance at similar prices and are much more consistent.
Take a snapgragon 8 gen 2, it could most certainly already run it at pretty high settings, hardware compatibility aside. We're just getting to the point of running Windows games on ARM SOCs through Box64, so give it 3-4 years before we start seeing random stuff play GTA 5
@@someonesomewhere8658yeah, adreno 740 gpu is already way faster than nintendo switch gpu(about 4 times faster according to 3dmark) and even switch can run witcher 3 and doom.
I'm a happy 3060Ti owner and it warms my heart to see Intel GPUs getting some love. I want Intel to succeed in making GPUs. NGreedia needs to be taken down a peg. They got super cocky with the 40 series. Please do more Intel ARC cards whenever possible. If XeSS and drivers keep getting updated, ARC cards will have incredible value.
i start using it about 3-4 months ago to play uncharted 4 because i have an old i54460 pc. my previus card was a 750 ti. i dont have much money so i bought an arc a380. the evolutuion of the drivers in these 3 months was unbelievable. i started play the game and with every new driver the performance was getting better and better. now i play the game for the second time and it feels like i have a much more powerful card than the one i bought. really great job from intel.
My PC still sports a DVD burner though I rarely use it. And then mostly for ripping audio CDs. Yes, I'm old-fashioned that way - I like to _own_ music and use it offline.
the "who even has a disk drive?" gag made me laugh harder than it should have. my computer technically has one, but it's not plugged in because i decided to steal the sata connector for something else :V
But that's not a disk drive? That's one of those new-fangled optical disc drives. Deevee-something-or-other. It's too modern and haughty to read proper diskettes.
I think its cuz Money can buy frames for sure, but he is showing how much frames you can push without throwing huge amounts of money on big players in the chip industry
It might be worth revisiting the whole Xe lineup of GPUs after Intel releases the new driver architecture. It's currently in beta on Linux, but I don't think you can try it out for Windows. It's meant for Xe2 (Battlemage) cards but it'll also apply to older cards after a while.
"Who even has a disc drive these days?" I have 2 Blu-ray drives, one of which is a burner. Great for archiving large amounts of data on media that can't be encrypted by ransomware. Plus I can fill the disc with MP4 files and pop it in my Blu-ray player.
i wanna invest in the closer future on one of those bad boys, i have a couple of questions for ya: -what are you recommendations in terms of hardware? -What do you think of external burner/writers and do they have any difference in terms of performance?
@itsdokko2990 Internal drives are almost always faster than external drives, and based on personal experience and what I've read online, don't buy an LG drive. I've had 2 LG external burners, and they have both failed. Just ordered a 5.25" Pioneer drive with an external enclosure.
You’re probably on the exception side rather than the rule. I also think it’s useful to have a physical disc drive or two but it seems we’re in the minority when it comes to general PC manufacturing in 2024.
Lmao sure, enjoy having slow read and write speeds with big form factor, I prefer small, super fast flash drives. I hope PS6 will ditch blu ray and use flash drives instead.
When you were talking about considering enabling FSR, you should instead use XeSS over FSR 2. I haven't tried FSR 3, but XeSS looks a lot better than FSR 2 and they perform identically in terms of framerate.
You should look around on deals on the A380. Here in the USA there seem to be some 3rd party sellers on Amazon who are selling parted out A380 from pre-built computers such as HP for the same price as a brand new A310 GPU, which is $100. These A380 cards appear to only have Intel branding on them and maybe a sticker from the pre-built computer like HP. Seems like a great deal for those who want the card for some gaming and mainly production use.
I feel like a used 1060 or even 970 would be a far better buy for gaming and cheaper as I'm sure you'd agree.. power consuption could be a factor, thanks for another inticing video
Yeah, comes a bit down to what you want to play on them. Looks like the A750 gives pretty good results for the price, but only if you focus on recent games and put it onto a recent platform. The A310 is basically for when you want AV1 hardware encoding on your Ryzen 3600 What you don't want to use it for: - playing older games (the card basically does only DX12 and Vulkan natively and everything older needs to be translated) - put it in older systems (the requirement for reBAR and only 4 PCIe lanes hurt performance) - use it as cheap display adapter (better, cheaper, less power hungry GPUs are available) - replace your slightly older midrage card (which would already have similar performance anyway)
Power consumption, it's also a new card with new driver support, low profile, no cable. Not having to stress about getting scammed or a card that works for 2 months and dies. Great card to stick in a work PC and enjoy some light gaming. Also I'd say it's a huge mistake to buy a 1060 or a 970 nowadays. With how cheap new GPUs are, like the RX 6600 goes for $180-200 brand new. For more than double the performance of a 1060.
@@HappyBeezerStudios I play older games all the time on the ARC and have no problems at all. The now build-in DXVK translation works and performs well and, as said in the video, the drivers have come a long way since the ugly early days and saw massive improvements.
@@trailduster6bt They CAN support re-bar, its a simple thing that can work even on complete, oldest potato you can find (as long as it is actually x86/64 cpu). But who is gonna give them that support? Certainly not the people who made the thing.
@@Informatic1 very unfortunate. All these small form factor office pcs and no good low profile budget gpus. Both the arc cards and the RX 6400 are useless in most of these pcs. The cheapest no strings attached low profile gpu is the rtx 3050 6gb. But after spending $170 on a gpu, you’ll probably have spent enough to put together a custom pc with a cheaper and more powerful used gpu like a gtx 1080 or rx 5700xt.
@@trailduster6bt I am aware, but it's a low tier card. I just want to know if an old i5/i7 can push it to its limit even without rebar, and if the fps is stable enough to game on.
I built my Dad a new workstation and threw one of these in there for $100. We need to have a budget category for GPUs as not every one is purchased for AAA gaming. I just got it to handle multiple monitors and drive AV1, and it does these things perfectly.
It's a very handy little GPU for encoding and decoding due to AV1 and VP9, one of the biggest reasons why I love it. As far as I know, it's the cheapest card with the new encoder.
I am actually super impressed at what you get for that kind of money! Personally, I only build what one could call very high-end computers, but watching these movies really points to that these high-end computers are a bit of waste. I mean, you can enjoy Witcher 3 on this card!
oh wow i was just looking at these and was struggling to find up to date benchmarks. was planning to stick it in a HTPC that also might be used for light gaming. what a coincidence one of my favorite tech youtubers posted a video about it right as i was lookin lol
I'd say try this card in one of the older systems without resizable bar so we can see how it works with that limitation. I agree with the other people if the responsible bar isn't that high of a requirement this could be a great drop in upgrade for an old PC
I just got the low profile version running in my Dell R640 on TrueNas Scale. Works great transcoding in Plex. Impressive since I guess Intel ARC was only just implemented in Scale very recently.
Tbh I was quite surprised how well the Arc 310 GPU actually performed in your games benchmarking suite of titles 😳😱🤯! I still feel this should be around a $50USD GPU in todays market,
I might be misunderstanding something; I thought "Minimum framerate" was the lowest framerate hit during the benchmark run, and the 1% and 0.1% rates were averaging that percentage of lowest values to show a "consistent" low range and eliminate a dramatic dip outlier. All of these "Minimums" are higher than the 1% and 0.1% averages.
To paraphrase a famous Star Trek line "Tough little card!" It's amazing such a card can get such good FPS in RDR2 of all games which is one of the most demanding titles in the last century (not including Crysis 😂 or Cyberpunk😮)
I got one of these for my jellyfin media server as a transcoding card and my god does it slay at that without even needing me to upgrade the PSU in my 4u logysis chassis.
Also should mention im not even getting all this card has to offer out of it since my media server is built with relatively ancient hardware without resizable bar support and pcie gen 2 (my media server is a AMD FX system from over a decade ago)
Currently on Amazon you can find an a380 for the same price as the a310. If you're looking for a $110 (USD) Arc card, get the a380 instead. It's a tiny bit slower than a GTX 1650, but it has 2GB more Vram and consistent driver updates.
I recently got a low profile arc 380 for a 12 year old Ivy Bridge computer I had lying around and I wanted to use primarily as an emulator machine in the living room, the card costed me about 150 bucks. I went and installed Street Fighter 6 and Tekken 8 for the lulz to see if it could even run those and I got impressed they not only run well but at a very good framerate at mid settings.
Okay, but, what about AV1 encoding?... The whole point of getting this card is just AV1. I also wonder if this card being installed on a PC without support for ReBAR will have an impact on encoding performance.
0:51 I went out of my way to buy a PC case that actually has multiple 5.25in front mounting slots, for DVD drive capabilities. Hence, I have dual Blu-Ray drives in my PC. :)
Yeah I don't want a PC case without external drive bays. That's bull pucky. I know you have to go out of your way to find cases with external drive bays today too. It was bad the last time I built a PC 4 years ago. I had to use a new old stock case I found. Danged thing didn't even have USB 3 ports. So I had to add those myself.
Great video! I almost bought an A310 ECO for one of my systems recently, but decided against it (already have a few gaming systems much more powerful, and the computer in question isn't a gaming system). Now I kick myself, because your video lit that fire for me again, but they are out of stock. I am sure when the are back in stock, I will splurge and get one.
2 disk drives, and a floppy. I still have the OG Doom demo floppy from PCGamer. I only watch movies I buy on disk, sorry publishers, but I'm not paying full price for 0s and 1s that you can take away at any time after taking my money.
i have one too. very usefull even today. i use it to make hard copies of photos to DVD for backup purposes. if i upload to the cloud it would probably float away!
Can you test it on one of your older systems without Gen4 or REBAR support? The price point for these cards puts them in a category to be a good choice to upgrade older PC's like old Optiplex or older parts you have laying around. The issue is that while the price puts them in that 'revitalize old parts' category, they require features that older hardware won't support like PCI Generation or Resizable Bar. It would be nice to know how this would perform in an older system like a 4th Gen or even older. Great video as always.
@@MrSamadolfo thanks for the tip.. I actually wasn't going to, for $100 USD I can get something better on the used market. I appreciate the feedback though, thank you!
Prise wise, the A310 competes with the GT 1030 and RX 550 The A380 with the GT 1030 and RX 6400 The A580 with the RTX 3050 and RX 6500 XT The A750 with the RX 3050, 2060 and RX 6650 XT And the A770 with the RTX 3060, 4060 and RTX 7600 XT And that is just for new cards, used options are obviously available.
I found that the low preset in Witcher 3 actually sucks because it turns reflections to high and uses resolution scaling with no AA. turning reflections to low increases fps by ~25 and using FSR on balanced and having the separate resolution scaling option off gets me to 60+, i'm using an older card but with the right settings it should perform about the same if not better
Excellent card for transcoding duty with jellyfin or plex in a server... there's even a low profile single slot version of the A310 (also from sparkle)
Ehh, if you're doing encoding this is the way to go. Otherwise, if you want it for a budget gamer @ 1080...look for old 8gb RX580 or 6gb GTX 1060. Just picked up a 580 for $50.
I got the low profile version ARC Eco A310 just for the AV1 encoder in a OptiPlex 7060 Small Form Factor. It's a bit loud but works great for my needs, Halo Infinite it struggles at low settings.
THis is basically just for Plex server PC's/Htpc computers if they even exist anymore. Media encoding and Plex transcoding is what this card is really for.
It a good card for the money the only reason I haven't used it in any build is because I have a deal with a guy in China for 1080ti cards that cost me under $60 a pop with a minimum order of 5.
