Intel Arc A730M vs AMD FirePro M8900
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Arc A730M and 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arc A730M 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1100MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)
2112 additional rendering cores
AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Arc A730M
+417%
6.758 TFLOPS
FirePro M8900
1.306 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Apr 2011
Alchemist
Generation
FirePro Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
300 MHz
Base Clock
-
1100 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
336.0GB/s
Bandwidth
115.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
-
-
-
3072
Shading Units
960
192
TMUs
48
96
ROPs
32
-
-
-
24
RT Cores
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
12 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
105.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
21.76 GPixel/s
211.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
32.64 GTexel/s
13.52 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
6.758 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1306 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
80W
TDP
75W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
Blackcomb
ACM-G10
GPU Variant
Blackcomb XT GL
Generation 12.7
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
40 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
1.7 billion
406 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
6.6
Shader Model
5.0
