Intel Arc A730M vs AMD Radeon E8950

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Intel Arc A730M AMD Radeon E8950

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Arc A730M and 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 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 4 months late

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

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A730M +64%

6.758 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950

4.096 TFLOPS

Arc A730M

VS

Radeon E8950

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Sep 2015

Alchemist

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

300 MHz

Base Clock

735 MHz

1100 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

3072

Shading Units

2048

192

TMUs

128

96

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

24

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

12 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

105.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

211.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

13.52 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.096 TFLOPS

6.758 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

256.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

Amethyst

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

E8950

Generation 12.7

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

21.7 billion

Transistors

5 billion

406 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

95W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.3

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