Intel Arc A380 graphics card started retail sales in Russia

Russian retail chain DNS has announced the start of sales of the entry-level Intel Arc A380 graphics gas pedal.
The new graphics card is available in non-standard MSI Arc A380 Low Profile 6G version, which is designed for compact computers.Image source: DNSThe graphics card is based on the Intel ACM-G11 graphics processor.
It has 8 Xe cores, 8 ray tracing blocks and 128 XMX matrix engines.
The chip has no factory overclocking and works in the frequency range from 2000 to 2450 MHz.
The card has 6GB of GDDR6 memory with an effective frequency of 15.5GHz, 96-bit bus support and a bandwidth of 186GB/s.
The MSI Arc A380 Low Profile 6G graphics card has a compact cooling system with two fans.
Interestingly, the Arc A380 Photon version by Gunnir has been available for purchase through the Ozon online marketplace for some time now.
Gunnir's version has a more powerful full-size cooling system with two fans and is priced from 13,299 rubles.
It should be noted that if you order a graphics card from Ozon, you have to wait for the delivery from China.
In the case of the MSI Arc A380, which is offered in DNS itself.We should add that Gunnir's version has been in the 3DNews test lab.
Among the pluses of this graphics card are a hardware encoder, ray tracing technology support and 6 Gbytes of memory, which is more than its direct competitors.
However, the card can hardly be called a gaming one.