Matrox has announced the launch of a trio of graphics cards under its "LUMA" series which make use of the Intel Arc A310 & A380 GPUs.

Intel Arc Gets Single-Slot Graphics Card Designs With Matrox "LUMA" Series, Designed For Multi-Screen Environments

Press Release: Video technology innovator Matrox Video today announced the launch of its newMatrox LUMA seriesof graphics cards with Intel Arc GPUs. The series consists of three single-slot cards: theLUMA A310, a low-profile fanless card; theLUMA A310F, a low-profile fanned card; and theLUMA A380, a full-sized fanned card.

Matrox Video developed the LUMA range to satisfy significant demand in the mainstream graphics market for driving multiple screens, with a balance between size, reliability, and performance for different applications. The new LUMA series is aimed at high-reliability and embedded PC applications in the medical, digital signage, control room, video wall, and industrial markets.

LUMA Intel Arc A310 Graphics Card (HFHL)

The LUMA A310 card is the only modern, low-profile fanless card. The fanless design offers quiet operation and eliminates a point of failure (the fan), thereby increasing reliability and extending the card’s life.

The LUMA A310 is the perfect choice for anyone needing a small card that fits in a small-form-factor system. Examples include industrial systems that sit on a table or behind a monitor, or surgical displays in an operating room, where there are stringent requirements for reliability.

LUMA Intel Arc A310F Graphics Card (HFHL)

The single-slot, low-profile LUMA A310F card is perfect for applications requiring more performance, such as in commercial gaming, where casino machines or arcade games require a small card and extra performance to drive video and 3D rendering. Another application is in the retail space to drive multimonitor graphics, such as digital signage and digital menu boards.

LUMA Intel Arc A380 Graphics Card

The full-sized, single-slot LUMA A380 card packs even more performance and more GDDR6 (6 GB versus 4 GB) than the other LUMA models. In the healthcare market, the LUMA A380 can power volumetric rendering in medical workstations. In transportation and aviation applications, it delivers multimonitor graphics and video with the best possible performance. In federal and defense applications, such as live operation control rooms and PC-based simulators, users can rely on it to control medium to large video display walls showing multiple video feeds.

Close collaboration with Intel made it possible for Matrox Video to customize certain features of the LUMA cards to address specific market needs and offer several qualities that are in high demand but aren’t available elsewhere:

The A310 is the only fanless board of its class on the market.All LUMA cards support DisplayPort 2.1 and can output up to 8K60 HDR.All LUMA cards have a life cycle of seven years, with dedicated customer support. Manufacturers that use LUMA cards in their offerings can reliably sell their products for years without needing to change anything or recertify their systems.All LUMA cards carry a three-year warranty, with the option to extend it.The cards come with Matrox PowerDesk desktop management software to easily configure and manage multi-display setups.TAA-compliant SKUs are available.

All three LUMA cards have four outputs and can drive four 5K60 monitors. (All three can also drive up to 8K60 or 5K/120 displays but are limited to two outputs when doing so.) They are compatible with all the latest graphical capabilities, supporting DirectX 12 Ultimate, OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.3, and OpenCL 3.0, as well as Intel’s oneAPI for compute tasks and the Intel Distribution of OpenVINO toolkit for AI development. The cards also have class-leading codec engines that can both encode and decode H.264, H.265, VP9, and AV1.