Intel Arc Pro A30M vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

VS

Intel Arc Pro A30M

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Arc Pro A30M 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 Pro A30M 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 122% (2000MHz vs 900MHz)

Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc Pro A30M +77%

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

Arc Pro A30M

VS

Radeon HD 8970M

Graphics Card

Aug 2022

Release Date

May 2013

Alchemist

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

2000 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

-

1024

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

8

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

8.192 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

DG2-128

GPU Name

Neptune

ACM-G11

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

Generation 12.7

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

157 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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