SPARKLE Computer
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Computer hardware |
| Founded | 1982 |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | Graphics cards, consumer electronics |
| Website | www |
Sparkle Computer Co., Ltd. (stylised as SPARKLE) is a Taiwanese electronics firm established in 1982, based in Taipei. The company specialized in manufacturing video cards using Nvidia graphics processing units, and peripherals (fans and heatsinks) for graphics controllers.[1]
Sparkle was one of the few manufacturers of modern discrete video cards that used the PCI bus, producing PCI versions of GeForce 8 series and GeForce 9 series based discrete graphics controllers, and, more recently, GeForce 200 series and GeForce 600 series-based GPUs using the aforementioned interface.[2]
In April 2023, Sparkle re-entered the graphics card market, this time producing a set of Intel Arc series graphics cards.[3][4]
Products
[edit]PCI series
[edit]GeForce 7900 PCI
[edit]SP-PX79GDH (GeForce 7900 GT series with active cooling - 256MB RAM)
GeForce 8400 PCI
[edit]SPARKLE introduced a unique PCI version of the GeForce 8400 series cards in PCI versions.
- SF-PC84GS512U2LP (GeForce 8400 GS Series with active cooling - 512MB RAM)
- SF-PC84GS512U2LP (GeForce 8400 GS Series with passive cooling - 512MB RAM)
- SF-PC84GS256U2LP (GeForce 8400 GS Series with active cooling - 256MB RAM)
- SF-PC84GS256U2LP (GeForce 8400 GS Series with passive cooling - 256MB RAM)
GeForce 8500 PCI
[edit]SPARKLE introduced a unique PCI version of the GeForce 8500 series card in a PCI version.
- SF-PC85GT256U2 (GeForce 8500 GT Series with passive cooling - 256MB RAM)
GeForce 9400 PCI
[edit]SPARKLE introduced a unique PCI version of the GeForce 9400 series card in a PCI version.
- SP94GT512D2L-HPP (GeForce 9400 GT Series with passive cooling - 512MB RAM)
- SP94GT512D2L-HP (GeForce 9400 GT Series with active cooling - 512MB RAM)
- SP94GT1024D2L-HPP (GeForce 9400 GT Series with passive cooling - 1024MB RAM)
- SP94GT1024D2L-HP (GeForce 9400 GT Series with active cooling - 1024MB RAM)
GeForce 9500 PCI
[edit]SPARKLE introduced a unique PCI version of the GeForce 9500 series card in a PCI version.
- SP95GT512D2L-HP (GeForce 9500 GT Series with active cooling - 512MB RAM)
- SP95GT1024D2L-HP (GeForce 9500 GT Series with active cooling - 1024MB RAM)
Low Profile PCIe
[edit]SPARKLE has also introduced 3 low profile PCI Express cards from the GeForce 9 series:
- SF-PX93GS512U2LP-HP (Low profile GeForce 9300GS with 512MB DDR2 RAM)
- Low profile GeForce 9600 with stock settings
- Low profile GeForce 9800 GT with stock settings and 512MB of GDDR3 RAM on a 256bit bus.
Intel Arc Alchemist PCIe
[edit]In April 2023, SPARKLE listed a set of Intel Arc series graphics cards on their website:[5]
- Sparkle Intel Arc A750 Titan OC Edition (2300 MHz Intel Arc A750)
- Sparkle Intel Arc A750 Orc OC Edition (2200 MHz Intel Arc A750)
- Sparkle Intel Arc A380 ELF (2000 MHz Intel Arc A380)
Intel Arc Battlemage PCIe
[edit]Sparkle continues to sell Intel Arc cards, and has listed on 13 December 2024 a set of Battlemage B580 cards:
- Sparkle Intel Arc B580 Titan OC Edition (2760 MHz Intel Arc B580)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Sparkle GeForce GTX 650 Ti review - Introduction". Guru3D. Retrieved 27 April 2015.
- ^ "Sparkle SP94GT1024D2LHP GeForce 9400 GT Video Card - 1GB DDR2, PCI, DVI, VGA". TigerDirect. Retrieved 27 April 2015.
- ^ Klotz, Aaron (26 April 2023). "Sparkle Returns to the GPU Landscape, With Three Intel Arc GPUs". Tom's Hardware. Archived from the original on 2023-04-30. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
- ^ Mujtaba, Hassan. "Graphics Card Maker, Sparkle, Joins Team Blue: First Custom Intel Arc A750 & A380 Designs Revealed". Wccftech. Archived from the original on 2023-04-30. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
- ^ "Intel Arc Graphics". Sparkle. Archived from the original on 27 April 2023. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
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