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While they’ve long since given up developing GPUs, Matrox has remained a notable player in the video card industry for over four decades. These days, the company has settled into a modest role of providing graphics cards based on other vendors‘ GPUs for use in niche or boutique use cases, where Matrox can differentiate based on their software and support. And while their sales volume as a whole is limited, there’s a certain degree of validation that comes from Matrox tapping a vendor’s GPUs for their latest video cards.
To that end, Intel this week has finally earned their tip of the hat from the oldest of the video card vendors, with the announcement of a new series of multi-monitor display cards built around Intel’s Alchemist architecture GPUs. Matrox’s new Luma series graphics cards are based on Intel’s Arc A310 and A380 graphics hardware, with the niche video card maker looking to tap into the Alchemist’s class-leading video decoding and encoding capabilities, as well as the display output features and flexibility that are critical for a multi-display card.
Matrox Video’s Luma family of graphics boards includes three products: the full-sized single-slot Luma A380 based on the Arc A380 (ACM-G11 with 1024 stream processors) with 6GB of memory; the low-profile single-slot fanless Luma A310 based on the Arc A310 (ACM-G11 with 768 stream processors) with 4GB of memory; and the low-profile single-slot Luma A310F that is equipped with a active cooling system.
