AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs Intel Arc A730M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970M

Intel Arc A730M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M and 12GB VRAM Arc A730M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

Intel Arc A730M 's Advantages

Released 11 years late

Boost Clock1100MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

2112 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M

1.306 TFLOPS

Arc A730M +417%

6.758 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

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Arc A730M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jan 2022

Vancouver

Generation

Alchemist

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

300 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1100 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

3072

48

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

96

-

RT Cores

24

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

12 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

105.6 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

211.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

13.52 TFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.758 TFLOPS

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

DG2-512

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

ACM-G10

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

6 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

21.7 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

406 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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