AMD Radeon 740M vs Intel Arc A730M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 740M 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 740M

Intel Arc A730M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 740M

Around 36% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Around 22% higher boost clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 2050 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 6 nm
5.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 80 Watt
Around 43% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 809 vs 565

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Boost clock speed	2500 MHz vs 2050 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 6 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 80 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	809 vs 565

Reasons to consider the Intel Arc A730M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 2 month(s) later
9.8x more texture fill rate: 393.6 GTexel/s vs 40.00 GTexel/s
12x more pipelines: 3072 vs 256
3.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9808 vs 3211
7x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 70573 vs 10106

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2022 vs 4 Jan 2023
Texture fill rate	393.6 GTexel/s vs 40.00 GTexel/s
Pipelines	3072 vs 256
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	9808 vs 3211
Geekbench - OpenCL	70573 vs 10106

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 740M
GPU 2: Intel Arc A730M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

809

565

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3211

9808

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

10106

70573

Name	AMD Radeon 740M	Intel Arc A730M
PassMark - G2D Mark	809	565
PassMark - G3D Mark	3211	9808
Geekbench - OpenCL	10106	70573
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1732

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 740M	Intel Arc A730M
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 3.0	Generation 12.7
Code name	Phoenix	DG2-512
Launch date	4 Jan 2023	2022
Place in performance rating	217	219
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2500 MHz	2050 MHz
Compute units	4
Core clock speed	1500 MHz	1100 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	6 nm
Pipelines	256	3072
Pixel fill rate	20.00 GPixel/s	196.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	40.00 GTexel/s	393.6 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	80 Watt
Transistor count	25390 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	System Shared	12 GB
Memory bandwidth	System Dependent	336.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	System Shared	192 bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Memory type	System Shared	GDDR6