Sparkle Computer

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Sparkle Computer Co., Ltd.
Company type Private
Industry Computer hardware
Founded1982;43 years ago (1982)
Headquarters
Taipei
,
Taiwan
Area served
Worldwide
Products Graphics cards, consumer electronics
Website www.sparkle.com.tw
Sparkle GeForce FX 5600XT 256MB AGP Sparklegeforce5600xt-agp.jpg
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, and peripherals (fans and heatsinks) for graphics controllers. [1]

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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 Sparkle Computer Geforce 9300GS LP.jpg
9300GS LP Korean Ver, rev.A6

Intel Arc Alchemist PCIe

In April 2023, SPARKLE listed a set of Intel Arc series graphics cards on their website: [5]

Intel Arc Battlemage PCIe

Sparkle continues to sell Intel Arc cards, and has listed on 13 December 2024 a set of Battlemage B580 cards:

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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