Intel Arc A730M vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

Comparative analysis of Intel Arc A730M and AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Arc A730M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • Around 39% higher boost clock speed: 2050 MHz vs 1471 MHz
  • Around 19% higher texture fill rate: 393.6 GTexel/s vs 330.00 GTexel/s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 14 nm
  • 2.6x lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 210 Watt
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 8 GB
  • Around 9% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1600 MHz
  • Around 15% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1732 vs 1501
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 2022 vs 14 August 2017
Boost clock speed 2050 MHz vs 1471 MHz
Texture fill rate 393.6 GTexel/s vs 330.00 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt vs 210 Watt
Maximum memory size 12 GB vs 8 GB
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1732 vs 1501

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

  • Around 5% higher core clock speed: 1156 MHz vs 1100 MHz
  • Around 17% higher pipelines: 3584 vs 3072
  • 2.3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 163998 vs 70573
  • Around 36% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 768 vs 565
  • Around 33% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 13093 vs 9808
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1156 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Pipelines 3584 vs 3072
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 163998 vs 70573
PassMark - G2D Mark 768 vs 565
PassMark - G3D Mark 13093 vs 9808

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Arc A730M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
70573
163998
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
565
768
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
9808
13093
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
1732
1501
Name Intel Arc A730M AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
Geekbench - OpenCL 70573 163998
PassMark - G2D Mark 565 768
PassMark - G3D Mark 9808 13093
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1732 1501
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 184.405
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1765.06
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 12.606
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 79.32
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1022.925
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 14462
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3361
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 14462
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3361

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Arc A730M AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

Essentials

Architecture Generation 12.7 GCN 5.0
Code name DG2-512 Vega 10
Launch date 2022 14 August 2017
Place in performance rating 227 224
Design Radeon RX Vega Series
Launch price (MSRP) $399
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2050 MHz 1471 MHz
Core clock speed 1100 MHz 1156 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm 14 nm
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 25.19 TFLOPS (2:1) 21 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 12.60 TFLOPS 10.5 TFLOPs
Pipelines 3072 3584
Pixel fill rate 196.8 GPixel/s 94.00 GP/s
Texture fill rate 393.6 GTexel/s 330.00 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt 210 Watt
Transistor count 21700 million 12,500 million
Compute units 56
Floating-point performance 10.5 TFLOPs
Render output units 64
Stream Processors 3584
Texture Units 256

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 267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 650 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12
OpenCL 3.0 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.6
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 336.0 GB/s 410 GB/s
Memory bus width 192 bit 2048 bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 HBM2

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
FreeSync
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready
ZeroCore