AMD Radeon RX 6600S vs Intel Arc A730M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6600S and Intel Arc A730M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon RX 6600S

Intel Arc A730M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6600S

Around 55% higher core clock speed: 1700 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Around 19% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 12445 vs 10488

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1700 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	12445 vs 10488

Reasons to consider the Intel Arc A730M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 3% higher boost clock speed: 2050 MHz vs 2000 MHz
Around 76% higher texture fill rate: 393.6 GTexel/s vs 224.0 GTexel/s
Around 71% higher pipelines: 3072 vs 1792
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 7 nm
3x more maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 4 GB
Around 31% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 683 vs 520
Around 6% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 70850 vs 66815

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2022 vs 4 Jan 2022
Boost clock speed	2050 MHz vs 2000 MHz
Texture fill rate	393.6 GTexel/s vs 224.0 GTexel/s
Pipelines	3072 vs 1792
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 7 nm
Maximum memory size	12 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	683 vs 520
Geekbench - OpenCL	70850 vs 66815

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6600S
GPU 2: Intel Arc A730M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

520

683

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

12445

10488

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

66815

70850

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6600S	Intel Arc A730M
PassMark - G2D Mark	520	683
PassMark - G3D Mark	12445	10488
Geekbench - OpenCL	66815	70850
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		7911

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6600S	Intel Arc A730M
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Generation 12.7
Code name	Navi 23	DG2-512
Launch date	4 Jan 2022	2022
Place in performance rating	146	147
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2000 MHz	2050 MHz
Compute units	28
Core clock speed	1700 MHz	1100 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	6 nm
Pipelines	1792	3072
Pixel fill rate	128.0 GPixel/s	196.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	224.0 GTexel/s	393.6 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt	80 Watt
Transistor count	11060 million	21700 million
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		25.19 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance		12.60 TFLOPS
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	Portable Device Dependent
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	2.1	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	12 GB
Memory bandwidth	224.0 GB/s	336.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	192 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6