Arc 7 A730M vs Radeon RX 490M

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitecturePolaris (2016−2019)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code namePolarisDG2-512
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 August 2016 (8 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 coresno data3072
Boost clock speedno data1100 MHz
Number of transistorsno data21,700 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data80 Watt
Texture fill rateno data211.2
Floating-point processing powerno data6.758 TFLOPS
ROPsno data96
TMUsno data192

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 sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Widthno dataIGP

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data12 GB
Memory bus widthno data192 Bit
Memory clock speedno data12 GB/s
Memory bandwidthno data288.0 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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX1212 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 14 nm 6 nm

Arc 7 A730M has a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 490M and Arc 7 A730M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 490M is a notebook card while Arc 7 A730M is a desktop one.


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