**First Look: Sparkle Arc A580 GPU - Budget Friendly Option for 1440p Gaming**

In this first look video, we take a closer look at the Sparkle Arc A580 GPU, a budget-friendly option that promises to deliver high-performance gaming experiences. We put it through its paces with a range of popular games and benchmarking tests to see how it stacks up.

**Doom Eternal 1440p Ultra Settings**

We started by running Doom Eternal in 1440p ultra settings, without using any resolution scaling. The result was an average frame rate of 106 FPS, which looked pretty good on screen. We didn't find the need to push it up to ultra nightmare mode, but this setting proved to be more than sufficient for a smooth gaming experience.

**Shadow of the Tomb Raider Built-in Benchmark**

Next, we ran Shadow of the Tomb Raider's built-in benchmark in 1440p settings, without resolution scaling. The average frame rate was around 83 FPS, which is still very respectable. By turning up the graphics settings to ultra and adding some XES technology, we were able to bump this number up to an average of 67 FPS.

**Mortal Kombat 1 1440p High Settings**

We then moved on to Mortal Kombat 1 in 1440p high settings, without using XES technology. The average frame rate was around 57 FPS, which is a bit lower than we would have liked. However, by turning up the graphics settings and adding some resolution scaling, we were able to increase this number up to an average of around 74 FPS.

**Project Cars 2 1440p Very High Settings**

For something different, we ran Project Cars 2 in 1440p very high settings, without using XES technology. The result was an average frame rate of 162 FPS, which is extremely smooth on screen.

**Spider-Man: Miles Morales 1440p Very High Settings**

We then moved on to Spider-Man: Miles Morales in 1440p very high settings, again without using XES technology. The average frame rate was around 74 FPS, which is still a great number for this game.

**Forza Horizon 5 1440p Ultra Settings**

Finally, we ran Forza Horizon 5 in 1440p ultra settings, with no resolution scaling. The result was an average frame rate of 86 FPS, which is very smooth on screen. This shows that the A580 can handle demanding games at high resolutions without breaking a sweat.

**CS:GO 1440p Very High Settings**

We then ran CS:GO in 1440p very high settings, with XES technology set to performance. The average frame rate was around 192 FPS, which is extremely fast and smooth on screen.

**Cyberpunk 2077 1440p High Settings**

Finally, we moved on to Cyberpunk 2077 in 1440p high settings, with XES technology set to balanced mode. We were able to get an average frame rate of around 67 FPS without making any significant changes. However, by switching to Performance mode in XES, we were able to bump this number up to an average of around 86 FPS.

**Conclusion**

Overall, the Sparkle Arc A580 GPU is a great choice for anyone looking for a budget-friendly option for 1440p gaming. While it may not be suitable for all games at ultra settings, it can handle many popular titles with ease and delivers smooth performance. We're impressed with what we've seen so far, and we think this card will be a great addition to any gaming build.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at what I consider one of the best budget gpus that you can pick up right now and we've got a different variant here from a company known as Sparkle I've actually never tested any of their gpus but I got my hands on their brand new Intel Arc a580 orc overclock Edition and I really wanted to show you what this thing can do retail on this is around 170 USD and if you keep keep an eye out these Arc gpus do go on sale quite a bit but I do think that this is a great option if you're looking for an awesome 1080p Ultra PC or even a 1440p high PC because the a580 does 1440p gaming quite well if you're a regular viewer of the channel you know I test out a lot of these Arc gpus and personally I'm a big fan of them Intel with their new arc series is definitely new to the market when it comes to modern-day gaming gpus and it's awesome to see competition come up against some of the big dogs that been doing doing it for a while now but the a580 is the newest kit on the Block and it looks like with this sparkle series a580 we are receiving two free games Gotham Knights and Ghostbusters so that's really nice to kind of add into everything there and usually I have to send away or wait for an email for these it does look like there's a code on the back of this card but taking a look at this allnew sparkle orc a580 I actually kind of like the design here we've got dual fans nice blue coloring and uh if we take a look at this one thing that I'd love to see in the future is just a single pcie 8 pin connector but this will draw up to 180 Watt that's the tgp of the a580 so I'm not going to complain here but they do recommend a 600 wat power supply or better with this card coming in at that $170 Mark it's nice to see that we do get a metal back plate here and it's a very minimalistic design it's not flashy at all there is a little bit of RGB on the side but it actually ties into the performance we'll take a look at that in just a second over here we've got three display ports and one HDMI port dual fan design but again this does require two 8 pen pcie connectors so keep that in mind there's definitely a few other higher-end arc gpus on the market like the a750 and the a770 but with this a580 we have 24 XC cores six render slices 24 Ray tracing units 384 Intel xmx engines 384 XE Vector engines Intel states that the base clock on the A5 80 is 1700 MHz but while gaming this stays at a true 2400 MHz so that's the average clock across the board with this sparkle version we've got a tgp up to 185 watts and it's designed around PCI Express 4.0 x16 now these cards will work in a 3.0 slot but I personally haven't tested them and I'm not exactly sure how much performance we're going to lose going from 4.0 to 3.0 in order to test this card out I'm going to be putting it inside of one of my newer rigs here I'm kind of making this my official testing rig basically what we've got here is the Intel Core i7 14700 K 32 GB of ddr5 running at 6,000 MHz 360 mm Cooler Master AIO for that 14700 K I've also got an aorus z790 motherboard and an 850 W Cooler Master power supply so we've got plenty of power and of course this is a bit overkill for the a580 but this way we don't have to worry about any other bottlenecks we can see what this card can really do and when it's all set up looks a little something like this now we've got that sparkle logo on the side of the GPU itself this will actually indicate different temperature ranges that we're in so blue is going to be nice and chilly it'll go to Yellow just letting you know it's heating up a bit and if you ever reach thermal throttle it will turn red so not a lot of RGB and this will be perfect for a clean unlit build I actually like the blue against the black there I think the card actually looks pretty decent okay so here we are like I mentioned I did pair this up with a pretty powerful CPU because I didn't want any kind of bottleneck we've got that i71 14700 K but this a580 is actually doing much better than I thought it would another thing to note here is we are in a PCI x16 4.0 slot now it will work with a 3.0 slot and personally I haven't done any testing to see the difference so we are kind of right where we need to be with the a580 and since we're using art we've got the art control panel game section so we can go through add our game we can set up custom profiles for these our display section just give us some information there and of course we've got performance Now intel does have a pretty nice little performance graph that you can overlay on your game really easy to use here but the main thing is Performance Tuning with this a580 and most other art cards that I've tested I can only really overclock 100 MHz here I'm not going to do an overclock on the core or anything like that what I'm going to do is change the power limit so out of the the Box this was set at 150 watts we're going to go to 180 apply that way we can reach those maximum clocks we've also got some fan speed control here automatic does a pretty good job but you can set up a fan curve or you could do a fixed fan Target it's really up to you so I'm not doing any kind of core overclocking or over voltage to this C we've just raised that power limit up the next thing I wanted to take a look at were some benchmarks that I ran on this GPU and the first one here is the geekbench 6 open CL Benchmark we scored 8,516 and if you take a look down the list on the right hand side you'll see that the performance here with this open CL Benchmark is kind of right on par with the RTX 360 and if you consider the price of both of these new we're coming in around $100 cheaper with the a580 next up we've got 3D Mark night raid 73,8 194 fire strike 27,600 9 our graphic score is right there at 11,599 so on paper with these synthetics definitely looks like it's putting out some decent performance but the only way to really tell is test out some real world gaming and first up we've got Doom Eternal 1440p ultra settings so we're not using any kind of resolution scale so we are at a native 1440p here I got an average of 106 FPS with this card looking pretty good here and you know there are a few more settings that we could take up to go to ultra nightmare if you wanted to but I think this looks amazing at 1440p Ultra I also ran built-in Benchmark for shadow of the Tomb Raider and with this I did have to take it down the high settings not using any resolution scale 1440p and at the end we had an average of 83 FPS pretty nice and if you want to go up to ultra you'll get an average of around 67 but you're right there on the edge so that's why I took it down to high but another thing we could do here is add some resolution scale or even just take it to 1080p moving over to Mortal Kombat 1 and 1440p high settings I tried Ultra here and we had an average of around 57 so it was dipping down a bit at Ultra but with this we're not using xes which is Intel scaling technology uh it does work out really well for these Arc gpus and you could go ahead and Max this out at 1440p taking X SS to balance I wanted to throw one of my favorite racing games in here just to see what it would do it's an older one we've got project cars too this is my favorite for the rally cross we got an average of 162 FPS 1440p very high here's Spider-Man Miles Morales 1440p very high and with this I didn't have to use XC SS I actually thought that at 14 40p with these settings here I'd have to turn on a little bit of resolution scale be it FSR or XS but we got an average of 74 FPS with this one if you're familiar with Forza Horizon 5 you know that this will basically run on anything as long as you adjust those settings accordingly even on lower-end apus we're seeing some amazing performance but with this setup here and that a580 we're at 1440p Ultra no resolution scale and I got an average of 86 FPS which is more than enough in my opinion and yeah I mean it's super smooth here with the a580 these Arc gpus do very well with csgo but I've yet to test csgo 2 here we have it at 1440p very high settings and by the end of this I had an average of 192 FPS and the final game I wanted to test here was cyberpunk 2077 we're at 1440p high set settings with xcss set to quality of course taking XCS to Performance will net us a bit more or even taking the resolution down but with it set up like this we got an average of 65 FPS now what I want to do is actually go into the settings and we're going to take XS from quality to balanced so from here we're just going to hit this up to balanced go ahead and apply it and to tell you the truth I didn't notice a giant jump in performance now of course going from qu quality to Performance in XCS might net us a bit more but now we're getting an average of around 67 FPS not too much more than we had at quality settings so if you need to get more out of this game best bet with the a580 is just take that resolution down to 1080 and now we can average around 86 FPS with cyberpunk 2077 1440p high with some xes turned on so overall I think this new Sparkle Arc a580 card is a great choice for a budget build now you got to know what to expect going into this they don't consider this a 1440p card but as you saw there are a lot of games that we can do 1440p at this is more of a 1080p Ultra card 1440p high card and it does a great job for what we have especially given the price point but that's going to wrap it up for this first look video I will have a full build coming up using the 580 I wanted to go with some cheaper use Parts just to see where we could get a nice little PC for 1440p high gaming I think we could come in pretty cheap when you compare it to other parts on the market right now but until then if you've got any questions let me know down below and if you're interested in learning about the sparkle Arc a580 I'll leave some links to where you can buy it down below but that's it for this one like always thanks for watchingwhat's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at what I consider one of the best budget gpus that you can pick up right now and we've got a different variant here from a company known as Sparkle I've actually never tested any of their gpus but I got my hands on their brand new Intel Arc a580 orc overclock Edition and I really wanted to show you what this thing can do retail on this is around 170 USD and if you keep keep an eye out these Arc gpus do go on sale quite a bit but I do think that this is a great option if you're looking for an awesome 1080p Ultra PC or even a 1440p high PC because the a580 does 1440p gaming quite well if you're a regular viewer of the channel you know I test out a lot of these Arc gpus and personally I'm a big fan of them Intel with their new arc series is definitely new to the market when it comes to modern-day gaming gpus and it's awesome to see competition come up against some of the big dogs that been doing doing it for a while now but the a580 is the newest kit on the Block and it looks like with this sparkle series a580 we are receiving two free games Gotham Knights and Ghostbusters so that's really nice to kind of add into everything there and usually I have to send away or wait for an email for these it does look like there's a code on the back of this card but taking a look at this allnew sparkle orc a580 I actually kind of like the design here we've got dual fans nice blue coloring and uh if we take a look at this one thing that I'd love to see in the future is just a single pcie 8 pin connector but this will draw up to 180 Watt that's the tgp of the a580 so I'm not going to complain here but they do recommend a 600 wat power supply or better with this card coming in at that $170 Mark it's nice to see that we do get a metal back plate here and it's a very minimalistic design it's not flashy at all there is a little bit of RGB on the side but it actually ties into the performance we'll take a look at that in just a second over here we've got three display ports and one HDMI port dual fan design but again this does require two 8 pen pcie connectors so keep that in mind there's definitely a few other higher-end arc gpus on the market like the a750 and the a770 but with this a580 we have 24 XC cores six render slices 24 Ray tracing units 384 Intel xmx engines 384 XE Vector engines Intel states that the base clock on the A5 80 is 1700 MHz but while gaming this stays at a true 2400 MHz so that's the average clock across the board with this sparkle version we've got a tgp up to 185 watts and it's designed around PCI Express 4.0 x16 now these cards will work in a 3.0 slot but I personally haven't tested them and I'm not exactly sure how much performance we're going to lose going from 4.0 to 3.0 in order to test this card out I'm going to be putting it inside of one of my newer rigs here I'm kind of making this my official testing rig basically what we've got here is the Intel Core i7 14700 K 32 GB of ddr5 running at 6,000 MHz 360 mm Cooler Master AIO for that 14700 K I've also got an aorus z790 motherboard and an 850 W Cooler Master power supply so we've got plenty of power and of course this is a bit overkill for the a580 but this way we don't have to worry about any other bottlenecks we can see what this card can really do and when it's all set up looks a little something like this now we've got that sparkle logo on the side of the GPU itself this will actually indicate different temperature ranges that we're in so blue is going to be nice and chilly it'll go to Yellow just letting you know it's heating up a bit and if you ever reach thermal throttle it will turn red so not a lot of RGB and this will be perfect for a clean unlit build I actually like the blue against the black there I think the card actually looks pretty decent okay so here we are like I mentioned I did pair this up with a pretty powerful CPU because I didn't want any kind of bottleneck we've got that i71 14700 K but this a580 is actually doing much better than I thought it would another thing to note here is we are in a PCI x16 4.0 slot now it will work with a 3.0 slot and personally I haven't done any testing to see the difference so we are kind of right where we need to be with the a580 and since we're using art we've got the art control panel game section so we can go through add our game we can set up custom profiles for these our display section just give us some information there and of course we've got performance Now intel does have a pretty nice little performance graph that you can overlay on your game really easy to use here but the main thing is Performance Tuning with this a580 and most other art cards that I've tested I can only really overclock 100 MHz here I'm not going to do an overclock on the core or anything like that what I'm going to do is change the power limit so out of the the Box this was set at 150 watts we're going to go to 180 apply that way we can reach those maximum clocks we've also got some fan speed control here automatic does a pretty good job but you can set up a fan curve or you could do a fixed fan Target it's really up to you so I'm not doing any kind of core overclocking or over voltage to this C we've just raised that power limit up the next thing I wanted to take a look at were some benchmarks that I ran on this GPU and the first one here is the geekbench 6 open CL Benchmark we scored 8,516 and if you take a look down the list on the right hand side you'll see that the performance here with this open CL Benchmark is kind of right on par with the RTX 360 and if you consider the price of both of these new we're coming in around $100 cheaper with the a580 next up we've got 3D Mark night raid 73,8 194 fire strike 27,600 9 our graphic score is right there at 11,599 so on paper with these synthetics definitely looks like it's putting out some decent performance but the only way to really tell is test out some real world gaming and first up we've got Doom Eternal 1440p ultra settings so we're not using any kind of resolution scale so we are at a native 1440p here I got an average of 106 FPS with this card looking pretty good here and you know there are a few more settings that we could take up to go to ultra nightmare if you wanted to but I think this looks amazing at 1440p Ultra I also ran built-in Benchmark for shadow of the Tomb Raider and with this I did have to take it down the high settings not using any resolution scale 1440p and at the end we had an average of 83 FPS pretty nice and if you want to go up to ultra you'll get an average of around 67 but you're right there on the edge so that's why I took it down to high but another thing we could do here is add some resolution scale or even just take it to 1080p moving over to Mortal Kombat 1 and 1440p high settings I tried Ultra here and we had an average of around 57 so it was dipping down a bit at Ultra but with this we're not using xes which is Intel scaling technology uh it does work out really well for these Arc gpus and you could go ahead and Max this out at 1440p taking X SS to balance I wanted to throw one of my favorite racing games in here just to see what it would do it's an older one we've got project cars too this is my favorite for the rally cross we got an average of 162 FPS 1440p very high here's Spider-Man Miles Morales 1440p very high and with this I didn't have to use XC SS I actually thought that at 14 40p with these settings here I'd have to turn on a little bit of resolution scale be it FSR or XS but we got an average of 74 FPS with this one if you're familiar with Forza Horizon 5 you know that this will basically run on anything as long as you adjust those settings accordingly even on lower-end apus we're seeing some amazing performance but with this setup here and that a580 we're at 1440p Ultra no resolution scale and I got an average of 86 FPS which is more than enough in my opinion and yeah I mean it's super smooth here with the a580 these Arc gpus do very well with csgo but I've yet to test csgo 2 here we have it at 1440p very high settings and by the end of this I had an average of 192 FPS and the final game I wanted to test here was cyberpunk 2077 we're at 1440p high set settings with xcss set to quality of course taking XCS to Performance will net us a bit more or even taking the resolution down but with it set up like this we got an average of 65 FPS now what I want to do is actually go into the settings and we're going to take XS from quality to balanced so from here we're just going to hit this up to balanced go ahead and apply it and to tell you the truth I didn't notice a giant jump in performance now of course going from qu quality to Performance in XCS might net us a bit more but now we're getting an average of around 67 FPS not too much more than we had at quality settings so if you need to get more out of this game best bet with the a580 is just take that resolution down to 1080 and now we can average around 86 FPS with cyberpunk 2077 1440p high with some xes turned on so overall I think this new Sparkle Arc a580 card is a great choice for a budget build now you got to know what to expect going into this they don't consider this a 1440p card but as you saw there are a lot of games that we can do 1440p at this is more of a 1080p Ultra card 1440p high card and it does a great job for what we have especially given the price point but that's going to wrap it up for this first look video I will have a full build coming up using the 580 I wanted to go with some cheaper use Parts just to see where we could get a nice little PC for 1440p high gaming I think we could come in pretty cheap when you compare it to other parts on the market right now but until then if you've got any questions let me know down below and if you're interested in learning about the sparkle Arc a580 I'll leave some links to where you can buy it down below but that's it for this one like always thanks for watching\n"