Intel Arc A730M vs AMD Radeon RX 580X

Comparative analysis of Intel Arc A730M and AMD Radeon RX 580X videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Arc A730M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • Around 53% higher boost clock speed: 2050 MHz vs 1340 MHz
  • 2x more texture fill rate: 393.6 GTexel/s vs 192.96 GTexel/s
  • Around 33% higher pipelines: 3072 vs 2304
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 14 nm
  • 2.3x lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 185 Watt
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 8 GB
  • Around 69% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 70789 vs 41822
  • Around 55% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 10488 vs 6769
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 2022 vs 3 April 2018
Boost clock speed 2050 MHz vs 1340 MHz
Texture fill rate 393.6 GTexel/s vs 192.96 GTexel/s
Pipelines 3072 vs 2304
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt vs 185 Watt
Maximum memory size 12 GB vs 8 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 70789 vs 41822
PassMark - G3D Mark 10488 vs 6769

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 580X

  • Around 14% higher core clock speed: 1257 MHz vs 1100 MHz
  • 4.6x more memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
  • Around 10% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 752 vs 683
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1257 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Memory clock speed 8000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 752 vs 683

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Arc A730M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 580X

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
70789
41822
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
683
752
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
10488
6769
Name Intel Arc A730M AMD Radeon RX 580X
Geekbench - OpenCL 70789 41822
PassMark - G2D Mark 683 752
PassMark - G3D Mark 10488 6769
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1793
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 11616
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 11616
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 4909
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 4909
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 18294
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 18294

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Arc A730M AMD Radeon RX 580X

Essentials

Architecture Generation 12.7 GCN 4.0
Code name DG2-512 Polaris 20
Launch date 2022 3 April 2018
Place in performance rating 184 187
Design Radeon RX 500X Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Type Desktop, Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2050 MHz 1340 MHz
Core clock speed 1100 MHz 1257 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm 14 nm
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 25.19 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 12.60 TFLOPS
Pipelines 3072 2304
Pixel fill rate 196.8 GPixel/s 42.88 GP/s
Texture fill rate 393.6 GTexel/s 192.96 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt 185 Watt
Transistor count 21700 million 5,700 million
Compute units 36
Floating-point performance 6.2 TFLOPs
Render output units 32
Stream Processors 2304
Texture Units 144

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 241 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.6
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 336.0 GB/s 256 GB/s
Memory bus width 192 bit 256 bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective 8000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
TrueAudio
VR Ready