Intel Arc A730M vs AMD Radeon HD 8870M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Arc A730M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A730M 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (1100MHz vs 775MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A730M +581%

6.758 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M

0.992 TFLOPS

Arc A730M

VS

Radeon HD 8870M

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Apr 2013

Alchemist

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

300 MHz

Base Clock

725 MHz

1100 MHz

Boost Clock

775 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

3072

Shading Units

640

192

TMUs

40

96

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

24

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

12 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

105.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.40 GPixel/s

211.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.00 GTexel/s

13.52 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.758 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

992.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

62.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

Venus

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

Venus XT (216-0846000)

Generation 12.7

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

21.7 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

406 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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