AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT vs Intel Arc Pro A30M Comparison

The Intel Arc Pro A30M and the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT occupy entirely different corners of the GPU landscape, and the recorded data reflects that split without ambiguity. The A30M is a compact professional mobile part built on Intel's Xe-HPG architecture, sipping power and targeting workstation compute in thin form factors. The RX 6700 XT is a full-size desktop gaming card from AMD's RDNA 2.0 generation, with roughly three times the raw shader throughput and triple the memory capacity. In the one benchmark where the database has results for both cards, Geekbench OpenCL, the RX 6700 XT wins by a decisive 27.8 percent. That single data point, combined with the specification gaps across every measurable dimension, makes the comparison straightforward: the A30M concedes performance in exchange for efficiency and integration, while the 6700 XT delivers it in a desktop-class package.

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

Direct head-to-head data is limited to one shared test, but it is a meaningful one. Geekbench OpenCL, a cross-platform GPU compute benchmark, records the Intel Arc Pro A30M at 31,894 points and the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT at 44,152 points. The delta is 27.8 percent in AMD's favor. For a compute-oriented professional card like the A30M, losing an OpenCL test by nearly a quarter again of its own score is a significant gap, since OpenCL is precisely the kind of workload the Pro-series silicon is built to serve.

Context from each card's rival cluster sharpens the picture. The A30M's Geekbench OpenCL score of 31,894 places it in the same band as the NVIDIA TITAN RTX (31,676, a 0.7 percent gap), the AMD Radeon Pro 570X (32,176, -0.9 percent), the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell (31,532, 1.1 percent), and the AMD FirePro S10000 (32,388, -1.5 percent). That is respectable company for a low-power mobile professional part, and it sits at the 76th percentile versus all GPUs in the database.

The RX 6700 XT, meanwhile, brings a much larger portfolio of results: 2435 in 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12, 130,896 in Geekbench Metal, 93,500 in Geekbench Vulkan, 44,152 in Geekbench OpenCL, 19,786 in Passmark G3D, 9336 in Passmark GPU Compute, 951 in Passmark G2D, and Passmark DirectX results of 242 (DX9), 173 (DX11), 124 (DX10), and 77 (DX12). Its average benchmark score of 27,425 places it at the 72nd percentile, bracketed by the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile (27,435, 0 percent delta), the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 (27,565, -0.5 percent), the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell (27,135, 1.1 percent), and the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20 (27,839, -1.5 percent). In other words, the 6700 XT trades blows with cards like the RTX 3090 in aggregate scores, which is strong standing for a desktop Radeon part.

The scoreboard in the shared benchmark is one to zero in favor of the RX 6700 XT. There are no tests where the A30M comes out ahead.

FAQ

Q: Which GPU is faster in the benchmark the database has for both?

A: The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT. It scores 44,152 in Geekbench OpenCL against 31,894 for the Arc Pro A30M, a 27.8 percent advantage.

Q: How do their percentile rankings compare?

A: The Arc Pro A30M sits at the 76th percentile versus all GPUs in the database, while the RX 6700 XT sits at the 72nd percentile. Note that these percentiles are computed against different benchmark pools, so the A30M's higher figure does not translate into a win in the shared OpenCL test, which it loses by 27.8 percent.

Q: How much more power does the RX 6700 XT draw?

A: Its TDP is 230 W versus 50 W for the Arc Pro A30M, and AMD suggests a 550 W power supply, whereas the A30M requires no external power connectors at all.

Q: What memory does each card have?

A: The A30M carries 4 GB of GDDR6 on a 64-bit bus for 128.0 GB/s of bandwidth. The RX 6700 XT has 12 GB of GDDR6 on a 192-bit bus for 384.0 GB/s, triple the bandwidth and capacity.

Q: Are both cards still in production?

A: No. Both are listed as end-of-life. The A30M was released on 2022-08-07, and the RX 6700 XT on 2021-03-02.

Q: Which cards do they compete against in the database rankings?

A: The A30M's nearest rivals include the NVIDIA TITAN RTX and AMD FirePro S10000; the RX 6700 XT's nearest rivals include the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 and RTX 4070 Mobile.

Architecture Differences

The two cards come from fundamentally different design lineages. Intel's Arc Pro A30M uses the Xe-HPG architecture on the DG2-128 chip, part of the Alchemist generation's Pro-Series Mobile lineup. It is fabricated on TSMC's 6 nm process, packs 7,200 million transistors onto a 157 mm² die, and achieves a density of 45.9M transistors per mm². The RX 6700 XT uses AMD's RDNA 2.0 architecture on the Navi 22 chip from the RX 6000 generation, built on TSMC's older 7 nm node with 17,200 million transistors on a 335 mm² die at 51.3M per mm². AMD's die is more than twice the area and more than twice the transistor count, which explains much of the performance separation.

Feature counts diverge sharply. The A30M fields 1024 shading units, 64 TMUs, 32 ROPs, and 8 RT cores. The 6700 XT more than doubles the shaders at 2560, more than doubles the TMUs at 160, doubles the ROPs at 64, and quintuples the ray tracing cores at 40. Neither card lists tensor cores. API support is identical: DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4 on both.

The bus interface differs in width: the A30M connects over PCIe 4.0 x8, while the 6700 XT gets a full PCIe 4.0 x16 link. The 6700 XT follows the Navi lineage, with the original Navi as predecessor and Navi III as successor. The A30M has no listed predecessor or successor.

Specification Differences

The differences run across nearly every field. Clocking: the A30M runs a 1500 MHz base and 2000 MHz boost; the 6700 XT runs 2321 MHz base, 2581 MHz boost, and a 2424 MHz game clock. Both run memory at 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective), but the wider bus gives AMD its three-fold bandwidth edge. Throughput figures follow: the 6700 XT delivers 165.2 GPixel/s pixel rate, 413.0 GTexel/s texture rate, 13.21 TFLOPS FP32, and 26.43 TFLOPS FP16, versus 64.00 GPixel/s, 128.0 GTexel/s, 4.096 TFLOPS, and 8.192 TFLOPS for the A30M. Every one of those is roughly a 2.6x to 3.2x advantage for the Radeon.

Physical and electrical envelopes are the starkest contrast. The A30M is a 50 W part with no power connectors and portable-device-dependent display outputs. The 6700 XT is a dual-slot desktop card measuring 267 mm long, 110 mm tall, and 40 mm wide, drawing 230 W through one 6-pin and one 8-pin connector, with a 550 W PSU recommendation. Its outputs are fixed: one HDMI 2.1 and three DisplayPort 1.4a. The 6700 XT's launch MSRP was 479 USD. Both cards are end-of-life.

Where Each One Wins

The RX 6700 XT wins everywhere performance is measured. The lone shared benchmark, Geekbench OpenCL, goes to AMD by 27.8 percent, and the specification deltas all point the same direction: triple the memory capacity and bandwidth, 2.6x the FP32 throughput at 13.21 versus 4.096 TFLOPS, higher pixel and texture rates, and vastly more ray tracing hardware. For gaming, content creation, and GPU compute of any consequence, the data supports only one answer.

The Arc Pro A30M wins on the dimensions the benchmarks cannot capture: power and form factor. At 50 W with no external power connectors, it operates in thermal and electrical envelopes the 230 W Radeon simply cannot enter. As a professional mobile part with portable-device-dependent outputs and a compact 157 mm² die, it is designed for integration, not throughput. Its 76th percentile standing and its proximity to cards like the TITAN RTX in its own benchmark pool suggest competent compute for its class, but the head-to-head record shows it cannot match the desktop Radeon.

The Verdict

For anyone choosing on performance, the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT is the clear pick. It wins the only shared benchmark by 27.8 percent, delivers roughly three times the memory bandwidth and FP32 throughput, and holds its own against rivals like the GeForce RTX 3090 in aggregate database scores. If the workload is gaming or sustained GPU compute, the data leaves no room for debate.

The Intel Arc Pro A30M is the choice only when power and integration dominate. A 50 W TDP, no power connectors, and a professional mobile pedigree make it suitable where the 6700 XT's 230 W draw, dual-slot footprint, and external connectors are disqualifying. Within that envelope, its benchmark placement alongside the TITAN RTX and FirePro S10000 in Geekbench OpenCL shows it holds its class. But class-appropriate is the operative phrase: in this pairing, the recorded data crowns the RX 6700 XT unconditionally.