Intel Arc A730M vs AMD Radeon HD 7970M

VS

Intel Arc A730M

AMD Radeon HD 7970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Arc A730M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A730M 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1100MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A730M +210%

6.758 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

2.176 TFLOPS

Arc A730M

VS

Radeon HD 7970M

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Apr 2012

Alchemist

Generation

London

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

1200 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

-

3072

Shading Units

1280

192

TMUs

80

96

ROPs

32

-

24

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

12 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

105.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

211.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

13.52 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.758 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.176 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

136.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

Wimbledon

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

Generation 12.7

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

21.7 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

406 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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