Monday, July 18th 2022

Glenfly Details its Arise-GT10C0 Graphics Card

It's not only Intel that has been showing off new graphics cards recently, as Chinese company Glenfly has revealed more details about its Arise-GT10C0 graphics card. To be clear from the start, this is not a graphics card for gamers, but rather for the PRC government and its computers, as the nation is trying to become self-sufficient when it comes to computer hardware for its government agencies and other government backed organisations. The 28 nm GPU has a clock speed of a whopping 500 MHz and delivers 1.5 TFLOPs of FP32 performance, which places it firmly in yesteryear's performance category. Glenfly claims support for up to 4K resolution, althought this is most likely only for desktop use.

The GPU is paired with 2 or 4 GB of DDR4 memory with a clock speed of 1200 MHz, using either a 64 or a 128 bit memory interface. The actual cards have a PCIe 3.0 x8 interface and have support for unspecified HDMI and DP interfaces, as well as D-Sub VGA ports. Driver support includes DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.5 and OpenCL 1.2. The GPU is also said to have hardware offload support for HEVC and H.264 hardware encoding, as well as decoding for both formats, plus most other common video formats, although, oddly enough, support for AVS, which is China's homebrewed video codec, is missing. OS support includes various Chinese flavours of Linux, Ubuntu and Windows according to Glenfly and outside of the x86 processor world, MIPS and arm based processors are said be supported.
Sources: Glenfly, via @Loeschzwerg_3DC
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28 Comments on Glenfly Details its Arise-GT10C0 Graphics Card

#1
silentbogo
Never heard of Glenfly, but a little detail makes things a bit clearer: GPU is based on new Zhaoxin(VIA) chip, but with current performance leaks it looks more like what intel did with DG1 - e.g. stuck an iGPU (possibly C960) onto discrete card. 70W TDP is a bit tough, though, even if compared to PPW of said iGPUs even on 28nm.... Possibly a failed batch of SoCs with processor cores and peripherals fused off? Cause if not, that's not looking good.
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#2
Denver
Ugh... I bet it loses to a Vega 6.
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#3
TheLostSwede
News Editor
DenverUgh... I bet it loses to a Vega 6.
It doesn't really matter for the usage it's intended for though.
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#4
W1zzard
Fully supported in GPU-Z, thanks to awesome support from Glenfly.

These are great people and working with them is so much easier than with the big GPU makers where everything is complicated because of politics and lawyers.
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#5
Denver
W1zzardFully supported in GPU-Z, thanks to awesome support from Glenfly.

These are great people and working with them is so much easier than with the big GPU makers where everything is complicated because of politics and lawyers.
Oh no, you fell for their game. lol
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#6
W1zzard
DenverOh no, you fell for their game. lol
huh?
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#7
Dr. Dro
W1zzardFully supported in GPU-Z, thanks to awesome support from Glenfly.

These are great people and working with them is so much easier than with the big GPU makers where everything is complicated because of politics and lawyers.
That is awesome! It's a shame that it's a government-only thing. I wouldn't mind seeing low-cost graphics solutions from upstart companies that are not from the big three, that is, Intel, NVIDIA or AMD. That is how competition sprouts! :D
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TheLostSwede
News Editor
Dr. DroThat is awesome! It's a shame that it's a government-only thing. I wouldn't mind seeing low-cost graphics solutions from upstart companies that are not from the big three, that is, Intel, NVIDIA or AMD. That is how competition sprouts! :D
It's unlikely that these GPUs will make their way outside of the PRC, since they're designed for the domestic market. Maybe some grey market exports?
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#9
Dr. Dro
TheLostSwedeIt's unlikely that these GPUs will make their way outside of the PRC, since they're designed for the domestic market. Maybe some grey market exports?
If it is really designed for the Chinese government first and foremost, my guess is that it would be hard to source even within China, though one of these from Aliexpress would certainly beat fake cards built with old and battered Fermi GPUs :laugh:

Maybe W1zz could request a review sample? That would be a most interesting read.
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#10
TheLostSwede
News Editor
Dr. DroIf it is really designed for the Chinese government first and foremost, my guess is that it would be hard to source even within China, though one of these from Aliexpress would certainly beat fake cards built with old and battered Fermi GPUs :laugh:

Maybe W1zz could request a review sample? That would be a most interesting read.
Designed for, not exclusive made for. They're not the only company doing this.
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#11
bonehead123
SO...... basically an ARC knockoff, designed & built for the PRC....

Yep, I gotta getz me some of dem, like, yesterday..../s

god only knows how much spywarez, rootkits, backdoors, surveillance tools etc is baked in, hehehe :)
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#13
Veseleil
mechtechIs that a VGA port?!
looks like a DVI to me.
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#14
mechtech
Veseleilolooks like a DVI to me.
lol

nah its blue its vga...........either way it's old, very old in PC terms
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Solaris17
Super Dainty Moderator
TheLostSwedeas well as D-Sub VGA ports
the OP literally says it lol :P
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#16
Veseleil
mechtechlol

nah its blue its vga...........either way it's old, very old in PC terms
Now that i look closer, the scale between it and the other port (can't figure is it HDMI or DP)... I could understand DVI for use with older monitors, but VGA is quite obsolete indeed.
Solaris17the OP literally says it lol :p
I've probably got tired of comprehensive reading. :kookoo:
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#17
chstamos
That's a weird (and a bit pompous, heheh) nomenclature for a card intended only for the internal chinese market... and even moreso, governmental entities, at that. Do Chinese civil servants compete on work PC specs? "I've got the latest Arise GPU, the thing is blazing fast, radeon 4890 horsepower right there on this puppy!"
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#18
ixi
mechtechIs that a VGA port?!
Many schools and firms still use old vga monitors or tv, so, not surpised.
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#19
Courier 6
bonehead123SO...... basically an ARC knockoff, designed & built for the PRC....

Yep, I gotta getz me some of dem, like, yesterday..../s

god only knows how much spywarez, rootkits, backdoors, surveillance tools etc is baked in, hehehe :)
yep, who knows what hides under the hood
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#20
eidairaman1
The Exiled Airman
I 'd rather see PowerVR/Imagination Technologies release a Graphics Accelerator Card.

I believe Via technologies is pretty much dead.
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#22
simlife
Dr. DroThat is awesome! It's a shame that it's a government-only thing. I wouldn't mind seeing low-cost graphics solutions from upstart companies that are not from the big three, that is, Intel, NVIDIA or AMD. That is how competition sprouts! :D
HUH u know the 28 nm is tech the 2013 consoles use?!?!?! so 720p-1080 low low settings? cell phones are already more powerful
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#23
mplayerMuPDF
simlifeHUH u know the 28 nm is tech the 2013 consoles use?!?!?! so 720p-1080 low low settings? cell phones are already more powerful
They will probably release a 14 nm card eventually as SMIC (PRC's equivalent of TSMC) is on 14 nm currently (they produced the Kirin 710A for HiSilicon on that node, which is in some budget Huawei phones)
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#24
Dr. Dro
simlifeHUH u know the 28 nm is tech the 2013 consoles use?!?!?! so 720p-1080 low low settings? cell phones are already more powerful
It's not about its computing power obviously. If I wanted powerful I'd look at my own PC with a 3090, it's about it being unusual as it's not using AMD, Intel or Nvidia IP to do what it does ;)
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#25
Baum
How "fast" is this?

Enough for CS:Go and office? might be a cheap alternative with more power than onboard gpu ...


Is the drive china ccp "spyware" free or does it come with backdoors like most cheap IOT devices?
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