Intel Arc A730M vs AMD Radeon 680M

Comparative analysis of Intel Arc A730M and AMD Radeon 680M 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

Intel Arc A730M

AMD Radeon 680M

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Arc A730M

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 7 month(s) later
3.7x more texture fill rate: 393.6 GTexel/s vs 105.6 GTexel/s
4x more pipelines: 3072 vs 768
2.7x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 70573 vs 26608
4.6x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1732 vs 378

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2022 vs 4 Jan 2022
Texture fill rate	393.6 GTexel/s vs 105.6 GTexel/s
Pipelines	3072 vs 768
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	70573 vs 26608
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1732 vs 378

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 680M

Around 82% higher core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Around 7% higher boost clock speed: 2200 MHz vs 2050 MHz
5.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 80 Watt

Core clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Boost clock speed	2200 MHz vs 2050 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 80 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Arc A730M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon 680M

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

70573

26608

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

1732

378

Name	Intel Arc A730M	AMD Radeon 680M
Geekbench - OpenCL	70573	26608
PassMark - G2D Mark	565
PassMark - G3D Mark	9808
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1732	378

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Arc A730M	AMD Radeon 680M
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 12.7	RDNA 2.0
Code name	DG2-512	Rembrandt
Launch date	2022	4 Jan 2022
Place in performance rating	227	1232
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2050 MHz	2200 MHz
Core clock speed	1100 MHz	2000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	6 nm
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	25.19 TFLOPS (2:1)	6.758 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	12.60 TFLOPS	3.379 TFLOPS
Pipelines	3072	768
Pixel fill rate	196.8 GPixel/s	70.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	393.6 GTexel/s	105.6 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt	15 Watt
Transistor count	21700 million	13100 million
Compute units		12
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		211.2 GFLOPS (1:16)
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x8
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.2
OpenCL	3.0	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.6	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB
Memory bandwidth	336.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	192 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6