ASRock has officially launched the Intel Arc A380 Challenger ITX custom graphics card. Previously the company only made AMD Radeon graphics cards but that seems to have changed. ASRock has officially jumped onto the Intel Arc bandwagon.
The ASRock Arc A380 Challenger ITX OC is a compact graphics card that comes with a single fan. It is aimed at the small form factor PC market. The graphics card has a boost clock speed of 2250 MHz and features 6 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 96-bit memory bus. It also comes with 8 Xe cores and 1024 stream processors.
While it does have plenty of VRAM for 1080p gaming the 96-bit memory bus might be a limiting factor. According to Intel, the Arc A380 should run games such as League of Legends, Fortnite, and PUBG at 1080p 60+ FPS. While that might be the case, we expect that this graphics card is going to struggle in more graphically intensive titles.
The card requires a single 8-pin power connector and supports PCI Express 4.0. It also supports all the functions of DirectX 12 Ultimate, including hardware-accelerated ray tracing. For video output, you get a single HDMI 2.0 port and 3x DP 2.0.
Previously we saw a model from GUNNIR that did not perform all that well, most likely due to driver optimization issues. The ASRock Arc A380 Challenger ITX OC is retailing for 1299 Yuan ($192) and is only available in China right now. We are not sure when these cards will be available in the rest of the world.
If you are interested in learning more about Intel Arc graphics cards then you can check out our Intel Arc A750 gaming benchmarks.
Source: ASRock China
