SPARKLE Computer Co., Ltd.
TypePrivate
IndustryComputer hardware
Founded1982 (1982)
Headquarters
Taipei
,
Taiwan
Area served
Worldwide
ProductsGraphics cards, Consumer Electronics
Websitewww.sparkle.com.tw
Sparkle GeForce FX 5600XT 256MB AGP

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, along with 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

PCI Series

GeForce 7900 PCI

SP-PX79GDH (GeForce 7900 GT Series with active cooling - 256MB RAM)

GeForce 8400 PCI

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

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

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

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

SPARKLE has also introduced 3 low profile PCI Express cards from the GeForce 9 series:

9300GS LP Korean Ver, rev.A6
  • 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 PCIe

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)

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Sparkle GeForce GTX 650 Ti review - Introduction". Guru3D. Retrieved 27 April 2015.
  2. ↑ "Sparkle SP94GT1024D2LHP GeForce 9400 GT Video Card - 1GB DDR2, PCI, DVI, VGA". TigerDirect. Retrieved 27 April 2015.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ "Intel Arc Graphics". Sparkle. Archived from the original on 27 April 2023. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
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