ASRock Intel Arc A380 Low Profile 6GB GDDR6 96-bit DisplayPort HDMI 0dB Silent Cooling 8K 7680 x 4320 Graphics Card PCI Express4.0 Dual Fan

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.

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.

Works great for my intended use. I use as a video transcoder in my server. Great little graphics card.

I used this as a low-power replacement for the 2070 in my Jellyfin server. Draws next to no power at idle, even during transcoding it only sips power.I run Jellyfin in Docker on Ubuntu.The downside with these lower end cards is that you'll probably run out of VRAM before you run out of compute. I went with the a380 as opposed to the a310 for the extra VRAM so I can support more concurrent streams, however the entire A-series lineup uses the same transcoding engine so the actual transcoding performance you'll get will be the same across the board.I was able to transcode 4K HDR10 HEVC to 4K SDR (tone mapping) AV1 at 250fps, screenshot included. Absolute powerhouse for adding solid transcoding to an older system at an affordable price.

Built up a modern office PC and found a really nice deal on an F skew CPU. This particular position is using an Ultrawide monitor and the low profile (aged) R7 card I slotted for the position could not resolve the resolution correctly. Needed a good low cost option and this seemed to fit the bill perfectly.I was a bit concerned with Intel and the development of their drivers since release. If you have been on the fence about its maturity, it seems that there has been a lot of catch up and the card works flawlessly for the resolution desired alongside some simple gaming/goofing off. The card is small enough that it just sort of hides under the CPU cooler. It is very quiet and have had no manner of issues with it in relation to the resolution which appears to have been an issue with some of the earlier driver releases.For its use case it seems to be a very decent card and so far would absolutely recommend for office work, viewing media, perhaps even some light gaming.

This may be a very good card for the right application, but I did not get to try it.I was really looking forward to installing this in my SFF media server. Bought it because it was low profile and did not require any added power connectors.However, because of its thickness It still would not squeeze into the space in this little Dell. I shipped it back and am waiting on my refund. (I'll follow up if I have any issues with that)I only gave it 3 stars, because the I felt the description on a "Low Profile" graphics card should specifically draw attention to the thickness since anyone buying one clearly has space limitations.

Pros:The card is so far working.More efficient than older gpus like RX580Better value than more recent low power gpus from other brands like RX6400Low power requirementCons:Installing driver on win10 on a W790 platform causes BSOD. Though if you transplant the OS drive and GPU with the drivers already installed using a different chipset (B560) it worked fine.Very high idle temperature in open chassis. 68C. The thermal design is inefficient because the back side of the PCB is much hotter than heatsink, indicating poor thermal contact.The fan kept starting and stopping which is bad for longevity.Summary: I am giving it 4 stars since Intel is relatively new and it has relatively good value compared to other cards of similar price. Though I am concerned with the longevity due to the high temps and the fan behavior.