Notebooks with Arc A730M graphics cards are already available in China, and today Intel released driver 30.0.101.1735 that supports these cards. And the first tests of the novelty have already appeared on the network.
The new Intel graphics accelerator was compared with the mobile version of the NVIDIA RTX 3060, and it turned out that the “blue” card as a whole can withstand the “green”. To be more precise, in games, the A730M was almost always inferior to the RTX 3060, with the exception of Metro Exodus enhanced edition. At the same time, in some cases, the games didn’t start at all or crashed with an error.
Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition and Hitman 2 on A730M and RTX 3060
But in synthetic tests, the A730M led the way. It is not yet clear whether the cause lies in the poor quality of the drivers or the lack of optimization of games. However, the results so far are not too impressive.
The Intel Arc A730M is equipped with 24 Xe cores and 12 GB memory with a 192-bit bus. The maximum card consumption is 120 watts. In testing, we used a Machenike Discovery Edition 2022 laptop with an Intel Core i7-12700H processor. Attention!
Source: VG Times