Intel Arc A730M vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

VS

Intel Arc A730M

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Arc A730M and 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M 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 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 22% (1100MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

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 +193%

6.758 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

Arc A730M

VS

Radeon HD 8970M

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

May 2013

Alchemist

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

300 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1100 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

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

28.80 GPixel/s

211.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

13.52 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.758 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

Neptune

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

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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