Glenfly Details its Arise-GT10C0 Graphics Card

[TheLostSwede]

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.



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[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.

 

[Denver]

Ugh... I bet it loses to a Vega 6.

 

[TheLostSwede]

Ugh... I bet it loses to a Vega 6.

It doesn't really matter for the usage it's intended for though.

 

[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.

 

[Denver]

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.

Oh no, you fell for their game. lol

 

[W1zzard]

Oh no, you fell for their game. lol

huh?

 

[Dr. Dro]

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.

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!

 

[TheLostSwede]

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!

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?

 

[Dr. Dro]

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?

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

Maybe W1zz could request a review sample? That would be a most interesting read.

 

[TheLostSwede]

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

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.

 

[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

 

[mechtech]

Is that a VGA port?!

 

[Veseleil]

Is that a VGA port?!

looks like a DVI to me.

 

[mechtech]

looks like a DVI to me.

lol

nah its blue its vga...........either way it's old, very old in PC terms

 

[Solaris17]

as well as D-Sub VGA ports

the OP literally says it lol

 

[Veseleil]

lol

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.

the OP literally says it lol

I've probably got tired of comprehensive reading.

 

[Deleted member 190956]

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!"

 

[ixi]

Is that a VGA port?!

Many schools and firms still use old vga monitors or tv, so, not surpised.

 

[Courier 6]

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

yep, who knows what hides under the hood

 

[eidairaman1]

I 'd rather see PowerVR/Imagination Technologies release a Graphics Accelerator Card.

I believe Via technologies is pretty much dead.

 

[TheLostSwede]

I 'd rather see PowerVR/Imagination Technologies release a Graphics Accelerator Card.

You mean like this?

Innosilicon's Fenghua GPU Based on Imagination Technologies IMG-B Series GPU Cores

The somewhat surprise announcement of the Innosilicon Fenghua No.1 server graphics card took many by surprise, but it seems like much of the tech media, us included, weren't paying attention, as there were hints about this card over a year ago. It came from no-one other than Imagination...

www.techpowerup.com

I believe Via technologies is pretty much dead.

In the graphics space, for sure. They've got enough other side hustles to keep on going as a company for years to come. The most profitable being VLI.

 

[simlife]

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!

HUH u know the 28 nm is tech the 2013 consoles use?!?!?! so 720p-1080 low low settings? cell phones are already more powerful

 

[mplayerMuPDF]

HUH 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)

 

[Dr. Dro]

HUH 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