Intel Arc Pro A30M vs AMD Radeon Pro VII

Comparative analysis of Intel Arc Pro A30M and AMD Radeon Pro VII 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Arc Pro A30M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 7% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1400 MHz
  • Around 18% higher boost clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1700 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 7 nm
  • 5x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 250 Watt
  • 2x more memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)
Launch date 8 Aug 2022 vs 13 May 2020
Core clock speed 1500 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Boost clock speed 2000 MHz vs 1700 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt vs 250 Watt
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro VII

  • 3.2x more texture fill rate: 408 GTexel/s vs 128.0 GTexel/s
  • 3.8x more pipelines: 3840 vs 1024
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 4 GB
  • 2.9x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 89784 vs 30987
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 408 GTexel/s vs 128.0 GTexel/s
Pipelines 3840 vs 1024
Maximum memory size 16 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 89784 vs 30987

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Arc Pro A30M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Pro VII

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
30987
89784
Name Intel Arc Pro A30M AMD Radeon Pro VII
Geekbench - OpenCL 30987 89784
PassMark - G2D Mark 696
PassMark - G3D Mark 5862

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Arc Pro A30M AMD Radeon Pro VII

Essentials

Architecture Generation 12.7 GCN 5.1
Code name DG2-128 Vega 20
Launch date 8 Aug 2022 13 May 2020
Place in performance rating 196 199
Launch price (MSRP) $1899
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2000 MHz 1700 MHz
Core clock speed 1500 MHz 1400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm 7 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 1,024 GFLOPS (1:4) 6.528 TFLOPS (1:2)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 8.192 TFLOPS (2:1) 26.11 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 4.096 TFLOPS 13.06 TFLOPS
Pipelines 1024 3840
Pixel fill rate 64.00 GPixel/s 108.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 128.0 GTexel/s 408 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 250 Watt
Transistor count 7200 million 13230 million
Compute units 60

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 6x mini-DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Form factor Dual-slot
Length 305 mm (12 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU) 600 Watt
Width 111 mm (4.4 inches)

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.1
OpenCL 3.0 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.6 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 16 GB
Memory bandwidth 128.0 GB/s 1024 GB/s
Memory bus width 64 bit 4096 bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)
Memory type GDDR6 HBM2
High bandwidth memory (HBM)