The Best $99 Low Profile GPU You Can Buy Right Now! Hands On Testing
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In this video we take a look at an awesome $99 Low Profile Graphics card perfect for Small Form Factor 1080P gaming PC Builds! This is the ASRock Intel ARC A380 Low profile GPU with 6GB Of Ram. We do an unboxing, run some benchmarks and see how well this LP card performs with AAA 1080P Gaming
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The big issue with these ARC cards is that they require a CPU/Mainboard combination that supports ReBAR/SAM, so these cards perform terribly on older CPUs (anything before Ryzen 3000 or Intel 10th gen). So they are not a good pick to slot into old/cheap workstation PCs you grab off of ebay. ETA tested on a Ryzen 7000 so this is not at all comparable to how this would run for example on an old intel 4000 series CPU. Please beware when looking for a low profile GPU for these older PCs!
GTX 1650 or RTX a2000 are the best for old LF system. RX 6400, RTX 4060 LP and a380 LP can't get the maximum performance by either cut down pcie lane or needing new features in the PC.
PS. Some old small form factor PCs don't have x8 pin for rtx 4060.
yeah its because every thing he reviews is 'amazing' etc but never gets down to the nuts and bolts of things, and seems like hes pushing a lot of things to sell for Aliexpress vendors (that lil SBC the other week went fast...). starting to get tired of these videos, they seem more like theyre ads skirting the paid promotion rules on here by now and again 'reviewing' some things. i noticed a lot less tutorials from him lately as well :p
A ryzen 5500 costs 100 bucks or less.
@@VuBeClan and then board, and ram etc. and im in canada, so increase that cost a bit more. plus i'd rather not use a card that emulates an API, which is why ive had no interest in a card that 'gets better' with driver updates vs ones that 'just work'.
Ah... Kinda, rebar technically existed in the x86-64 spec from around 2010, and at the very least I know some Intel 7000 and 8000 motherboards got updated to support it, and that it can be hacked in yourself all the way back to Sandy bridge
I'd love to see a video of side by side performance between the a380, 1650, and 6400. All low profile models.
Why ? ARC is just CRAP !
Gigabyte GV-N4060 low-profile, next to Nvidia A2000
6400 is a dog compared to 1650
@@snoflahke6575 aren't they mostly on par?
He never compares. Everything is "best".
The A380 should have been a good buy for older systems, but thanks to needing Re-Bar, not so much. I really think it was a bad idea for Intel to develop Arc around Re-Bar. It would have opened them up to A LOT more buyers. The A380 is about on par with a 1650, which are selling for around $150 on the used market. At $100 this would be a no brainer for those people. It is worth noting that Re-Bar can be enabled on older systems, but it requires flashing a modified BIOS to your system... so it's not for the faint of heart, but it is an option.
For people with older systems, the 1650 or the 4060 (if you have enough power) are the best options right now. The A2000 would be as well if it weren't currently selling for over $300 on the used market, and at that point, just buy the 4060. If they came back down to around $250, I'd call it a viable option again. The "new" 3050 6GB might be an interesting option when it comes out if they sell it at the right price.
@@RichmondRaymont Unless you can enable Re-Bar on your system, it's not getting the performance it could be. You are absolutely leaving performance on the table. There are more than enough videos showing the performance decrease with Re-Bar disabled on YT.
I wonder how much more support (driver side) does the 16 series has left considering Nvidia has finished production on those cards
@@itsprod.472Not any time soon. They still support the 900 series and they'll kill of 10 series before the 16 series, so 16 series has quite a bit more life left in it. Besides, there are people out there still gaming on 700 series cards even though driver supported ended quite a while ago.
@@dualpapayasYep, even with it's issues, it would perform better than the A380 in a Gen3 system.
@@RichmondRaymont If you're fine with a slower card than the 1650 in your system in every way, and it's more than a little, then more power to you. The only thing the A380 has over the 1650 is AV1 support.
Kudos to those who make SFF GPU cards. Don’t for get the little guys 👍👍
I use this card as secondary graphics card for rendering in my system. And it works fine. Thanks for the video.
Do you use it for rendering on Enscape? I'm think in buy one, but need to make sure it will work?
@@EduardoRodrigues-ef3tli use it to render my YT-streams on my channel, and for rendering in AV1 in Video Deluxe 2024 for my Video content.
The ReBAR and PCIe 4.0 necessities make Intel GPUs a not very good option for older systems. Even the RTX4090 is hardly affected by those shortcomings.
i got an ReBAR onm an X99 - thats PCIE 3.0
and my A770 works flawlesslyy..
ReBAR as TECH is part of PCIE since PCIE 3.0
blame motherboard manufacturers that they disabled or hidden that option
on most of the "older" motherboards that has pcie 3.0 - you can bring back option to enable ReBAR with simple bios mods
@@Karti200 question though, isn't there games that don't support ReBar and if ReBar is turned on in the system, wouldn't that game perform poorly due to that? If I remember correctly thats the reason why intel arc is not recommended on older systems
@@jd_railfan There are no issues with older titles - and no, Intel did not recommended older systems because of ReBar "lacking" but as mentioned before - ReBAR as itself, is an technology that EACH pcie 3.0 based system has - but motherboard manufacturers did not enabled it
@@Karti200please explain what is ReBAR and SAM in GPU terms
in simplest way@@FloatSamplesGT710 - gives CPU an option to fully harness GPU memory
ReBAR is the technology name overall - SAM is just AMD way of calling it
when someone says "AMD SAM" he just fancy names ReBAR
I love that there's a "good enough" efficient little GPU that's so affordable
A Plex encoding test would be awesome! Specially to new formats like h265.
I also would love to put a SFF PC into my arcade1up machine. So some Wii u and ps3 emulation results would have been nice
@@kevinsedwards because some people like having 4k movies and h265 saves more space.
The A380 can do AV1 encoding. so you can save even more space over H265
You can run a low profile amd rx 550x @@ChaFairchildabout $40 will run those as long as your cpu is decent for the PS3.
@@kevinsedwards you keep missing the point lol. Forget it.
VERY nice to See RX6400, A380, A2000 LP, A4000 LP, and the RTX 4060 LP ALL new all available for the most part. We may have more "new" options than before. It's been a while since we have had so many LP cards.
Technically if your needs are a bit lower, there are still 1650s, 1030s, 750ti, RX550s & 560s, and a few enterprise quadros and "Radeon pro" type cards floating around too.
Yet the 1650 lp is still the best bang for buck 🤑
3050 LP also launched (soft launch?). As for how much cheaper than the 4060LP, yet to see...
got me a 4060 for my itx build for 300 bucks... so far im happy with it... cyberpunk runs on ultra 1080 +RT with 90fps cant complain at all... had a hard time deciding between a ps5 and the 4060 .. im glad i got the 4060 def outperforms the ps5
How does it fair on the temperature department? I bet it's running quite hot considering the 8-pin power connector and a recommended 450W power requirment.
@@qx1381 yes temps are pretty hot.. tahts the only negative point... but i think its because i run a itx skyreach mini case.. in a normal case i think they would be better...
@@teabagNBGRTX series 4000s are pretty hot in general, I doubt it's your case
Curious to see how this card performs with Emulation as I will be more intrigue to use it on a multicade running high end Arcade games.
Yep, over $220 in Australia ... Really frustrating doing budget build here!
Over 150 in Germany on sale 😕
Having products available at $99 price point is very intriguing and useful. Good job 👍
Maybe it's not exactly apples to apples but you forgot to mention the RtX A2000. It is more expensive, but it's basically a "Quadro" version of the RTX 3060, in both 6GB and 12GB variants. That thing performs VERY well! I have the 12GB model in my NAS/Plex server for 4K transcoding. It's definitely overkill, but these ARC GPUs weren't available when I built it.
It's more like a 3050, possibly 3050 ti. The lp 4060 is significantly better tho if one has the room
@@zerocal76 Mine was within 2% of the 3060 on the benchmarks I ran (I have both cards). My guess would be it depends if you use the studio driver for the A2000 and the game ready drivers for the 3060? Or I got incredibly lucky and/or unlucky with either or both of the cards 🤷♂️ I agree about the 4060 though, obviously that will be faster than the others. But part of ETA's point was something low profile that doesn't need the 8-pin power, and that's the part I was focusing on.
@@zerocal76 3060 is better.
DONT USE THIS CARD FOR AN OLD OEM SFF BUILD - THIS CARD DONT LIKE OLD HARDWARE !!!
Resizeable BAR is not in my school's optiplex ...
Yay you finally got this one! Thanks for the amazing review!
You have to admit, the arc center looks baller! If I could I would take that over any other control software
Cheaper than a RX 6400, but a shame that its not also single slot.
Great video! Could you show emulation performance of this? I'd be highly interested in using this in a compact living room build for some casual gaming.
its really too bad that these require new cpu/motherboard - they'd almost be an instant buy if they were supported in older business desktops, optiplexes etc.
really?
Have the drivers matured for emulation? Awesome video, really appreciate you testing such a budget GPU 😊
Dude. This is seriously misleading. People are gonna walk away from this, thinking that they’ll drop one into their Optiplex and get good gaming performance. They won’t. Intel themselves say not to bother buying an ARC card if you have an old system that doesn’t have resizable BAR support.
Most of his stuff kind of is. Ideally small and retro should be relatively cheap. If you cost the stuff out that he tests, many times it is not even close. You watch and go "COOL!!!!" Then you check the components and say "STUPID!!!!!" I'd love for him to say in the video, "As of 12-1-23 this system can be put together for 1100 dollars". The likes would go down. I used to be subscribed. Now I check the videos out occasionally.
That being said, he does put the work in and works hard. Not going to fault him for that. But he waxes eloquently about hardware sometimes that makes no economic sense for what it is supposed to be used for.
Some of the sbc's he tests cost way more than if you just built a similar performing desktop. Smaller is not cheaper when it comes to these form factors. Retro emulation is just a common use for some of the hardware he is testing. These types of videos are for showing enthusiast level involvement in these form factors and not for finding the best price to performance ratios. But he should have included more information about Intel's reliance on resizable bar support. I don't even think he mentioned it. @@dlewis9760
You should do the A310 too
I received one of these cards for Christmas. I'm using it in an older Lenovo Thinkstation E34 SFF. I upgraded the PC to 16 GB DDR3, an Intel Core i7-4790 CPU. This card is really nice, especially for the $99 price and the fact that it only draws 45 watts. I'm getting 47 fps on Furmark on 1080 setting, not sure why you were only getting 9 fps. My computer doesn't support reBAR, but I'm getting impressive framerates as-is. If someone could show the difference in performance before enabling reBAR and enabling reBAR and see what, if any, performance gains there are, that would be very informative.
Damn... how many times did ETA Prime got me in buying stuff I don't think I'll need...
Thank you I have a old dell SFF im going to try to put this into.
I tried this and the color is too big, it fits if you pull the cooler off it fits
I've built a SFF gaming PC with this A380 last week. I've even used it with Proxmox 8.1 as pass through to Windows 10. It's an excellent card and I've not found a game it does not play.
i just got it for replacing my broken gt 1030. this card need to enabled resize bar and luckily my asrock h310 has option to enabled resize bar. my htpc spec : i3 9100 + asrock h310m hdv
Would love to see you test the RTX 4000 ada power mod, intrested just for purpose of what could have been if nvidia did a low profile 4070, I know the price is that of a 4090, but curious to see an super tiny pc that is way smaller then any console and packs a punch at 4k.
they finally made it into a low profile, knew it would happen. but, rebar support being needed...nah.
Most clean self-built low liter PC ever seen. Usually, they look like they'll catch on fire. 👍
I love this videos!!! Saludos desde México
Mr. Eta prime love your videos. They also have a RTX A4000 SFF that's a new low profile gpu that can run off the pcie slot at under 75 watts. But it costs 1500 and right now it's the most powerful gpu you can run without even needing a bigger power supply. It replaced the rtx a2000 series gpu's from what I'm seeing is somewhere between 2 to 2.5 times more powerful than its predecessor and would make for an interesting video.
As others have noted. This basically needing ReBAR kills any interest I would have had in it. I'm sure there are good technical reasons at play, but ultimately it's still something I just have no interest in as it won't work on anything i could even theoretically get my hands on.
Hello love all your vids. Why don't you make a sort of bench video with this arc lp a380 vs rx 6400 lp and rtx 4060 lp all card in low profile mode. Please with a price/performance test (emulation first) and the rest...
CPU utilization seems abnormally high during that spiderman run around 7:46 at 80-90%. That's about double what cyberpunk was using a similar framerates, for instance, and pretty extreme for a 7700x
Might be a driver or game problem
I really wanted to find a a380 low profile but here in Australia it's impossible. Instead I went and splurged and got the 4060 low profile.
For what it is, it seems rather good.
Wouldn't mind a mid-range laptop with an i5, and this GPU.
The combination with Intels N100/300 would be quite interesting
Unsure if it would be worth it vs whatever other with a bigger core and bit more power budget to sustain max boost on game "main" core. Intel 2+8 i3 and up or Ryzens.
Intel N100/200/300/305 has one stupid (imo) flaw and that is the single channel RAM only.
@@Nightingale1887 Also the limitation to pcie 3.0
I know i am almost month late - but as an user of same case
i recommend you to strip GPUs off their small fans, and put 2x 80mm slim fans on the bottom of case - much better performance :)
i been watching your vids for a while now and always like what you show, however i thought of something not many or anyone is talking about. PC gaming in a van or tiny home. only a few vids i found but it would make for a good content pool, more and more people are going into van live with the cost of everything going way up it be nice to see what kind of ultra power efficient gaming rig you can make for tiny living and solar power.
i think this is a great idea for repurposing the ryzen 3k and up chips that are used so they can be regular purpose or htcp's
I can most definitely play Lego Harry Potter with that
I wonder how good the next gen will be
I just wanna know if it will work for some light video and photo editing but no one ever talks about anything but Cyberpunk.
For light video and photediting your cpu and ram will be priority but yea this would handle light editing perfectly fine. The moment you start rendering graphics like in blender or aftereffects you might want a beefier gpu
That has gotta be the most adorable GPU I have seen in years!
For my Fujitsu Esprimo with i7 6700 the best affordable and matching gpu is rtx a2000. I am very happy with this combo
Small PC > Big PC
Nice video. It's definitely not a single slot card though; you won't fit anything in a slot below it.
I'm curious as to how well this can decode. Is decode performance the same as the A770?
Airbus A380 airliner haha
I got a free OptiPlex with an i7 8700 and M.2 from work... this might be perfect for my bum pc build. Just hope the stock PSU can run it.
This card is only marginally better than the Vega 8 in AM4 APUs. If you are going to deal with the hassle of a video card in a SSF build you will want a better upgrade than that imo.
Do you plan to test out the Intel Arc a310 ITX or Low Profile model? It feels like an enthusiast card, but I don't see any videos for it anywhere since it's a low end Intel offering.
Emulations test?
I would have loved seeing emulation done in your video. I have a a370m in my laptop it always wants to update to the older version if the driver but other than that its a decent 1080p card
This is perfect thanks for sharing
the costs of those cases have jumped up to like $160 ... i should have bought several of them when i got mine for $100
I already have GTX 1050 ti low profile on an i7 2600 mini form factor Dell Optiplex, and it runs most of my preferred games decently, but was still looking for a better option, as the video card is long in the tooth. I was wondering if you can put is in a similar desktop to see if it is a viable option of an upgrade, since I think most people who will be looking at this video card may have something similar.
Come on ETA, you know we all want Emulation test ...
At this point in time, it's basically a portable Meteor Lake iGPU. Honestly it's more on par with RDNA3. Meteor Lake will be better than the A380 by the time actual people start buying 14th gen for games
omg .. you sounded like a Drill Instructor sir .. nice ..
Please make a 2023 Best Mini PC all budgets
I have been looking at Intel cards but it's hard to decide. I haven't upgraded my video card in YEARS but just don't know if this is worth it
if your system doesn't support ReBAR, just opt for Nvidia or AMD. Otherwise, performance is a fraction of what it's supposed to be - I've also seen some users show their system refusing to start but that was on Intel 4000 series setups so your mileage may vary.
Would this card be viable for PS3 emulation either through Windows or Batocera? If so I'm thinking about getting one and selling my RTX A2000 for some quick cash.
4060 LP card is suppose to replace this for gaming. A2000 is more suitable for workstation video encoding.
@@qx1381 The A2000 is the equivalent of the RTX 3050 and performs as such when using Game Ready drivers. Also no where did I enquire about the 4060 LP. Furthermore this response answered nothing about my actual question which was if the ARC A380 handles PS3 emulation well. This is more directed at ETA Prime himself. At least you tried.
Hi there. I love your videos, you present the information in a manner which is easy to understand to a noob myself (in terms of PC building). One question: How would Microsoft Flight Simulator on its highest settings compare to the games you test on? I'd love to be able to have the best settings on MSFS in 1080p? My monitors don't go higher than that anyway. I want to buy or build a PC but I don't want to go overkill. As an extra-credit question, how would you guess that the games you test compare to the upcoming MSFS 2024? I realize I'm asking you to dust off the crystal ball here...
The XESS is lookingreally goot at performance mode. Look at Cyberpunk. it looks like native 1080.
I'd love to buy one of these for an old Small Form Factor PC, but I want to know how much performance you lose without Resizable BAR...
EDIT: I just look up on Amazon and here (Spain) that same card costs 168 €.
Oh well.
I really wished for world of warcraft testing for this budget gpu
This is gonna be amazing for Plex server builds forget gaming, give us those sweet sweet transcodes
Nice! Pls test this card in a batocera system!
Oh wow, I actually bought an Nvidia rtx A2000 some time ago because there were no better alternatives available at the time. How does this Intel gpu compete against the Nvidia?
a2000 is equivalent of rtx 3050
@@emre1393 that's right 👍🏻 and the Intel is equivalent to? I read that the Intel arc drivers have been getting a bunch of performance upgrades
@@Alexander-ix2jpAMD RX 580, idk for Nvidia's equivalent
@@ridhoardhana ty that's what I was looking for
They have NV4060 right now, and it's cheaper than A2000
That monitoring software looks so much better and accurate than afterburner what are you using
It's 150 Euros im Germany. If I would want to buy a card because my budget is low, I would buy an older 1060 6gb for up to 70 Euros 👍🏻
Saw it onsale for $160 Cdn, but sold out everywhere
Yeah, I loved this.>Thanks 👍
I play starfield on integrated vega 7 on my 5600g. I get an average 35fps 900p on a mix of high/medium settings while running a reshade mod
Can you please also cover media htpc capabilities of lower end graphics that can be used for home entertainment, youtube 4k hdr streaming on a 4k display, av1 decoding performance etc?
I would pun it with a low end Intel cpu and see what sort of extra punch it can pack. Ppl on low end machines might be interested
Pourquoi vous n'avez pas essayé un émulateur pour PS3 ou pour Nintendo Switch ?!
I would not give more for gpu then 99 bucks... it's work fine very good.
the 1650 outperforms the a380 BUT given the price difference if i had nothing i would buy the a380. my 1650 cost me twice as much for not twice the performance. the one i want to see is the low profile a580 if someone would make one, the a580 double the performance of the 1650.
I wonder if there are any smaller eGPU enclosures that would work with this for a do it yourself option for the new handhelds like the Ally and Go. Might need to get a different GPU though, as you probably need to power the GPU through an external connector in such a use case.
at 10 dollars, it would be a nice gift for someone you dont like
gotta sell those arc gpus, rigth?
Sorry, if you live in a state with nickel deposits on beer and soda cans, get a trash bag and search for them along the roadside a couple of months if you are that hard up. Any initial enthusiasm for sticking it to the man for 99 bucks will end very quickly. 2000 cans and you get 100 bucks. You can get something low end decent. I'd get a headache playing some of those games for more than a couple of minutes. You are getting a card that is gimped to other hardware. A little bit more money and you won't be.
Nice....... cute how small it is but nice
I dont understand. You installed the Arc A310 and your configuring the Arc A380? Dude whaaaat????!!!
I'm awaiting Gigabyte GV-N4060 low-profile review here. It's suppose to be the most powerful LP card available right now.
Does the ASRock Intel ARC A380 Challenger ITX 6GB OC and the a380 low profile perform the same? Cooling? FPS?
i hate when we don't get the rare performance of cards
Optiplex please. Thank you
I have a couple optiplexs and it would be awesome to see a video using one of these.
my $130 nzd rx 580 8gb 2048sp (OC) out performs it by a lot.this gpu is $300 nzd here , only good thing about it is low profile .
on the arc cards with furmark do not use 8xMSAA you will not see the maximum power draw it seems broken.
How would this work in a i7 4th gen cpu in linux batocera? Better than a gtx1050ti LP?
I wonder if you could get this GPU to work with the PI5 5 maybe that plus an SSD makes a PI5 a really reasonable desktop replacement, with a total cost of $250 or less.
Still waiting on AMDs LP GPU. Hope it surpasses the 6500XT in terms of performance.
$160 CAD with similar performance to a 1650
honestly I'd rather buy a used GPU on ebay that would out perform this card, but finding one that's this low profile is probably unlikely.
Also, they go for about $200 on the used market
Wow! When was this released?
I GOT THIS CARD ABOUT A MONTH AGO, I got on time spy ~3600 points, I have a GA 170X G1 motherboard, I7-6700 (4cores,8t) 16GB DDR4 at 2666, and a gen 3 Crucial P3 m.2 NVME. (I will get 3200MHZ RAM) but won’t make a big difference.
I had better computers in the past but I love this motherboard, but CAN’T enable ReBar at all, so it hurts this cards performance, and running on Gen 3x8 lanes instead of 4x8, but I believe it doesn’t affect as much because it’s a low end card so bandwidth needed is not as high.
Great card, good price and drivers updates help a lot. I’ll upload more videos showing it’s performance, but anything older than 10 GEN INTEL PROCESSORS AND 5000 Series AMD, will hurt performance.
I love ETA Reviews.