Intel Arc A730M vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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Intel Arc A730M

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Arc A730M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A730M 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 13% (1100MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A730M +238%

6.758 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

Arc A730M

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Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Nov 2014

Alchemist

Generation

Crystal 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

975 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

-

3072

Shading Units

1024

192

TMUs

64

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

31.20 GPixel/s

211.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

13.52 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.758 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

Pitcairn

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

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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