Intel Arc A730M vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Arc A730M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A730M 's Advantages

Released 11 years late

Boost Clock1100MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

2112 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6970M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A730M +417%

6.758 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

1.306 TFLOPS

Arc A730M

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Radeon HD 6970M

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jan 2011

Alchemist

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

300 MHz

Base Clock

-

1100 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

3072

Shading Units

960

192

TMUs

48

96

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

24

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

12 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

105.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

211.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

13.52 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.758 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

Blackcomb

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

Generation 12.7

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

40 nm

21.7 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

406 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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