Arc A730M vs Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake)

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated201
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data23.69
ArchitectureGen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameAlder Lake XeDG2-512
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date4 January 2022 (2 years ago)2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores643072
Core clock speedno data1100 MHz
Boost clock speed1400 MHz2050 MHz
Number of transistorsno data21,700 million
Manufacturing process technology10 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data80 Watt
Texture fill rateno data393.6
Floating-point processing powerno data12.6 TFLOPS
ROPsno data96
TMUsno data192
Tensor Coresno data384
Ray Tracing Coresno data24

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data12 GB
Memory bus widthno data192 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data336.0 GB/s
Shared memory+-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno dataPortable Device Dependent

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXDirectX 12_112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 10 nm 6 nm

Arc A730M has a 66.7% more advanced lithography process.

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Intel Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake)
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