Matrox LUMA Pro A380 Octal Redefines Display Density with 8-Output 5K Graphics Card

[TheLostSwede]

Matrox Video is making high-performance video wall deployments more efficient with the release of the Matrox LUMA Pro A380 Octal, a professional graphics card that drives four 8K displays or up to eight 5K displays from a single slot. The new LUMA Pro A380 Octal will be presented at InfoComm 2025, taking place June 11-13 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida, at booth 2821. Designed to help OEMs, system integrators, AV installers, and developers do more with less, LUMA Pro A380 Octal enables high-density display setups while reducing hardware requirements and system complexity.

With LUMA Pro A380 Octal, users can now drive more displays per system and free up PCIe slots for other essential components like capture cards, storage, or networking. Traditional multi-display setups often rely on several quad-output cards, each consuming a full slot. LUMA Pro A380 Octal offers a compact alternative that makes it easier to build systems using standard workstations.




"Matrox LUMA Pro A380 Octal helps our customers build smarter systems with fewer components," said Daniel Collin, Senior Product Manager at Matrox Video. "You can drive more displays, use smaller and more cost-effective systems, and save valuable PCIe slots for other hardware. It's about doing more with less."

Leveraging Intel Arc GPU media engines and Matrox Mura software libraries, LUMA Pro A380 Octal delivers high-density IP stream decoding—supporting up to four 8K60, sixteen 4K60, forty 1080p60, or sixty-four 1080p30 H.265/H.264 streams from a single card. The card also supports advanced HEVC 4:4:4 decoding, enabling full-color fidelity at low bitrates for visually- rich, bandwidth-efficient content distribution—ideal for video walls and AV-over-IP systems that demand top-tier image quality and performance.

The high output density of LUMA Pro A380 Octal makes it especially well-suited for control rooms, digital signage networks, and large-scale display walls, where maximizing display capabilities while minimizing system footprint and PCIe slot usage is essential.

The LUMA Pro Series product line is further enhanced by the Mura C4K capture card, which supports up to four 4Kp60 sources from a single-slot card. When paired with the LUMA Pro Series, Mura C4K enables integrators to capture and display HDCP-protected content across video walls and operator workstations, offering a powerful, space-saving solution for high-performance AV installations.

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[Dirt Chip]

Metrox back from the dead??
Haven't heard from them for 20 years now..

 

[AGlezB]

I had a Matrox Millenium way back when. Can't remember exactly which one.
Good times.

 

[Onasi]

Metrox back from the dead??
Haven't heard from them for 20 years now..

They never died, they just released specialty cards like this one based on Radeon chips for years. Now they have switched to Intel.

 

[yfn_ratchet]

8 display outputs in a single slot?! The 9060 XT would tell you it's absolutely inconceivable.

I remember spotting the LUMA Alchemist cards before, and even then I thought them enticing for multi-display setups that sipped power and fit into tiny spaces. This takes it up by a power of two. Impressive work.

 

[ncrs]

Neat, another dual-GPU Intel specialty card. I wonder if they use a dedicated PCIe switch chip or rely on x8x8 bifurcation like MAXSUN Arc Pro B60 Dual.

 

[Dr. Dro]

Metrox back from the dead??
Haven't heard from them for 20 years now..

Matrox has found itself a videowall/visualization GPU niche, they have been making mostly AMD-based cards with custom drivers for the past decade or so. Even some Quadro Pascal cards. Recently started to dabble with Arc.

 

[tommo1982]

Matrox has found itself a videowall/visualization GPU niche, they have been making mostly AMD-based cards with custom drivers for the past decade or so. Even some Quadro Pascal cards. Recently started to dabble with Arc.

Same with AverMedia. They used to make TV cards for PC. Now they make streaming hardware.

 

[Geofrancis]

Intel might have found a niche in the GPU market, Semi custom GPUs, with AMD and Nvidia locking down designs so much, Intel giving freedom to board partners will bring a lot of them over just for the ability to make something unique like the dual chip cards.

I miss the days of the weird cards, like dual chip, I had a sapphire hd4850x2 back in the day or bottom end cards with a ton of ram, it made no sense back then but these days it could actually be useful.

or when a top end card was only 2 slots, and you could actually fit other things in the other slots. now it's just assumed that you're building your entire computer around your GPU and using usb audio.