AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs Intel Arc A730M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

Intel Arc A730M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 12GB VRAM Arc A730M 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 Clock1100MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

Arc A730M +309%

6.758 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

Arc A730M

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jan 2022

Solar System

Generation

Alchemist

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

300 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1100 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

3072

48

TMUs

192

16

ROPs

96

-

RT Cores

24

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

12 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

105.6 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

211.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

13.52 TFLOPS

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.758 TFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

DG2-512

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

ACM-G10

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

21.7 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

406 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.6

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