Intel Arc A730M vs AMD Radeon R9 M270X

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Arc A730M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M270X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A730M 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1100MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

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

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A730M +339%

6.758 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M270X

1.536 TFLOPS

Arc A730M

VS

Radeon R9 M270X

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Feb 2015

Alchemist

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

300 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1100 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

3072

Shading Units

768

192

TMUs

48

96

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

24

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

12 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

105.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

211.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

13.52 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.758 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

Saturn

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

Saturn PRO (216-0843044)

Generation 12.7

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

21.7 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

406 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.5

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