Matrox Video LUMA series powered by Intel Arc

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Graphic card maker Matrox has announced their LUMA series of graphic cards, powered by Intel Arc. The company has released 3 different skus, LUMA A310. LUMA A310F, and LUMA A380. 

 

About the Matrox LUMA A310

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The LUMA A310 card is the only modern, low-profile fanless card. The fanless design offers quiet operation and eliminates a point of failure (the fan), thereby increasing reliability and extending the card’s life. The LUMA A310 is the perfect choice for anyone needing a small card that fits in a small-form-factor system. Examples include industrial systems that sit on a table or behind a monitor, or surgical displays in an operating room, where there are stringent requirements for reliability. 

 

About the Matrox LUMA A310F

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The single-slot, low-profile LUMA A310F card is perfect for applications requiring more performance, such as in commercial gaming, where casino machines or arcade games require a small card and extra performance to drive video and 3D rendering. Another application is in the retail space to drive multimonitor graphics, such as digital signage and digital menu boards. 

 

About the Matrox LUMA A380

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The full-sized, single-slot LUMA A380 card packs even more performance and more GDDR6 (6 GB versus 4 GB) than the other LUMA models. In the health care market, the LUMA A380 can power volumetric rendering in medical workstations. In transportation and aviation applications, it delivers multimonitor graphics and video with the best possible performance. In federal and defense applications, such as live operation control rooms and PC-based simulators, users can rely on it to control medium to large video display walls showing multiple video feeds.  

 

All LUMA series supports the following

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have four outputs and can drive four 5K60 monitors. (All three can also drive up to 8K60 or 5K/120 displays but are limited to two outputs when doing so.) They are compatible with all the latest graphical capabilities, supporting DirectX 12 Ultimate, OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.3, and OpenCL 3.0, as well as Intel’s oneAPI for compute tasks and the Intel Distribution of OpenVINO toolkit for AI development. The cards also have class-leading codec engines that can both encode and decode H.264, H.265, VP9, and AV1. 

 

All cards comes with a 3 year warranty with the option to extended.

Press Release

Matrox LUMA Series

Matrox LUMA series DataSheet (PDF)

[da na]

Matrox has been a niche brand catering to video walls and venues for over a decade now, using AMD/ATI chipsets, ever since they stopped making their own. But from the start there was a major focus placed on multi monitor and business. Glad to see them still going, especially with these new cards, one of which is definitely not an RTX A4000 with extra square holes.

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16 minutes ago, da na said:

Matrox has been a niche brand catering to video walls and venues for over a decade now, using AMD/ATI chipsets, ever since they stopped making their own. But from the start there was a major focus placed on multi monitor and business. Glad to see them still going, especially with these new cards, one of which is definitely not an RTX A4000 with extra square holes.

They have been around for a long time was quite popular back then, along with 3DFX, S3, Nvidia, and ATi. But then they seem to have stepped away from the spotlight and worked on their products behind the scenes. Same here, it's nice to seem them still going after all these years.

[Bitter]

Those look neat, but some pricing would be good...probably overpriced because niche.

[leadeater]

55 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Those look neat, but some pricing would be good...probably overpriced because niche.

Hardly matters that there is no pricing, these aren't for gaming and would actually perform slightly worse than direct Intel versions. Matrox will be putting all there effort in to driver and firmware optimizations for video displays and encoding/decoding and basically nothing else. Plus they come with guaranteed extra support life which will be added in to the cost.

 

Pricing, cheaper than Nvidia workstation, more than Intel Arc. The M9148 being replaced by these is around $400.

 

[Bitter]

22 minutes ago, leadeater said:

Hardly matters that there is no pricing, these aren't for gaming and would actually perform slightly worse than direct Intel versions. Matrox will be putting all there effort in to driver and firmware optimizations for video displays and encoding/decoding and basically nothing else. Plus they come with guaranteed extra support life which will be added in to the cost.

 

Pricing, cheaper than Nvidia workstation, more than Intel Arc. The M9148 being replaced by these is around $400.

 

Not necessarily interested for gaming, the video decode/encode on the Arc cards even at the low end is pretty good I hear. Having it in single slot low profile for SFF prebuilts is nice.

[williamcll]

For a moment I thought this was the return of Nokia's Lumia phones.