AMD FirePro M8900 vs Intel Arc A730M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 12GB VRAM Arc A730M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)
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
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro M8900
1.306 TFLOPS
Arc A730M
+417%
6.758 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2011
Release Date
Jan 2022
FirePro Mobile
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
2GB
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 GL
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
