AMD Radeon 860M vs Intel Arc Pro A30M Comparison

FAQ

Q: Which GPU has the higher Geekbench OpenCL score?

A: The Intel Arc Pro A30M scores 31894, while the AMD Radeon 860M scores 22759. This gives Intel a 40.1% advantage in the recorded OpenCL test.

Q: How do these two GPUs compare to their nearest rivals?

A: The Intel Arc Pro A30M sits 0.7% ahead of the NVIDIA TITAN RTX and 1.1% ahead of the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell, while trailing the AMD Radeon Pro 570X by 0.9% and the AMD FirePro S10000 by 1.5%. The AMD Radeon 860M is 0.3% ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060, but trails the NVIDIA GeForce MX550 by 0.1%, the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary by 0.6%, and the NVIDIA RTX A4000 by 1.1%.

Q: What are the power requirements of each GPU?

A: The Intel Arc Pro A30M has a TDP of 50 W, while the AMD Radeon 860M has a TDP of 15 W. Neither GPU requires external power connectors.

Q: What is the manufacturing process for each chip?

A: The Intel Arc Pro A30M uses a 6 nm process at TSMC, while the AMD Radeon 860M uses a 4 nm process, also at TSMC.

Q: How much memory does each GPU have?

A: The Intel Arc Pro A30M has 4 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 64-bit bus with 128.0 GB/s of bandwidth. The AMD Radeon 860M uses system shared memory, with system-dependent bandwidth.

Q: What is the production status of each GPU?

A: The Intel Arc Pro A30M is end-of-life, while the AMD Radeon 860M is active.

Where Each One Wins

The benchmark data splits cleanly between these two mobile graphics solutions. The Intel Arc Pro A30M wins the only shared test outright: Geekbench OpenCL. Its score of 31894 versus 22759 represents a substantial 40.1% margin. This makes the Intel part the clear choice for raw compute workloads that rely on OpenCL acceleration.

The AMD Radeon 860M, however, has no direct head-to-head win in the recorded data. Instead, its position is defined by its broader benchmark portfolio and its architectural efficiency. It records both an OpenCL score of 22759 and a Vulkan score of 30043, while the Intel part only has a single OpenCL entry in the database. For applications that use the Vulkan API, the AMD Radeon 860M demonstrates validated capability, whereas no Vulkan result exists for the Intel Arc Pro A30M.

The power envelope tells a different story. The AMD Radeon 860M operates at 15 W, one-third the TDP of the Intel Arc Pro A30M at 50 W. For thin-and-light mobile devices where thermal headroom is scarce, this efficiency advantage is decisive. The Intel part may lead in raw compute, but the AMD part delivers a validated Vulkan path and far lower power draw.

The production status also favors AMD. The Intel Arc Pro A30M is end-of-life, while the AMD Radeon 860M remains active, meaning the Radeon is the more current design for new systems.

Architecture Differences

The two GPUs come from fundamentally different architectural families. The Intel Arc Pro A30M is built on Xe-HPG architecture with the DG2-128 chip, belonging to the Alchemist generation. The AMD Radeon 860M uses RDNA 3.5 architecture with the Krackan Point chip, part of the Navi III IGP generation.

The process nodes differ substantially. Intel uses a 6 nm TSMC process, while AMD uses a 4 nm TSMC process. The Intel chip contains 7,200 million transistors on a 157 mm² die, yielding a transistor density of 45.9M per mm². AMD has not disclosed transistor count or die size for the Krackan Point chip, so no density comparison is possible from the recorded data.

The memory architecture is a major divide. The Intel Arc Pro A30M uses dedicated 4 GB GDDR6 memory on a 64-bit bus with 128.0 GB/s bandwidth. The AMD Radeon 860M relies on system shared memory, with the type, bus width, and bandwidth all marked as system dependent. This means the AMD part's memory performance varies with the host platform, while the Intel part has fixed, dedicated resources.

Clock behavior also differs. The Intel Arc Pro A30M runs at a base clock of 1500 MHz and boosts to 2000 MHz. The AMD Radeon 860M starts much lower at 600 MHz but boosts significantly higher to 3000 MHz. The memory clock for Intel is 2000 MHz with 16 Gbps effective speed, while AMD's memory clock is tied to system shared memory.

Both GPUs support the same API feature set: DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4. Both have the same number of ray tracing cores at 8, and neither has tensor cores listed in the database.

Specification Differences

The compute unit counts differ significantly. The Intel Arc Pro A30M has 1024 shading units, 64 texture mapping units, and 32 render output units. The AMD Radeon 860M has 512 shading units, 32 TMUs, and 16 ROPs. Intel leads by 2x across all three categories.

Despite the Intel part's higher raw throughput, the AMD Radeon 860M achieves a higher boost clock. Intel boosts to 2000 MHz; AMD boosts to 3000 MHz. The base clocks are reversed: Intel at 1500 MHz versus AMD at 600 MHz.

The recorded throughput metrics show Intel ahead. The Intel Arc Pro A30M delivers 64.00 GPixel/s pixel rate and 128.0 GTexel/s texture rate. The AMD Radeon 860M delivers 48.00 GPixel/s and 96.00 GTexel/s. In FP32 compute, Intel reaches 4.096 TFLOPS versus AMD's 3.072 TFLOPS. For FP16, Intel rates 8.192 TFLOPS with a 2:1 ratio, while AMD rates 3.072 TFLOPS with a 1:1 ratio.

Power draw is the major counterweight. The Intel part is rated at 50 W TDP; the AMD part at 15 W TDP. The AMD Radeon 860M is an integrated graphics processor (IGP), while the Intel Arc Pro A30M is a discrete mobile GPU.

Release timing differs by more than two years. The Intel Arc Pro A30M launched on 2022-08-07 and is now end-of-life. The AMD Radeon 860M launched on 2025-02-28 and remains active. The AMD part lists a predecessor, Navi II IGP, while the Intel part has no predecessor in the database.

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

The database records one direct head-to-head benchmark: Geekbench OpenCL. The Intel Arc Pro A30M scores 31894, and the AMD Radeon 860M scores 22759. The delta is 40.1% in Intel's favor. This is not a marginal win; it is a decisive lead that places the Intel part in a different performance tier for OpenCL compute.

Context from the nearest rivals reinforces the gap. The Intel Arc Pro A30M's score of 31894 sits within 1.5% of the AMD FirePro S10000 (32388) and within 0.9% of the AMD Radeon Pro 570X (32176). It edges past the NVIDIA TITAN RTX (31676) by 0.7% and the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell (31532) by 1.1%. The AMD Radeon 860M, by contrast, clusters around the 26401 average of its own rival set, with the NVIDIA GeForce MX550 (26421), NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 (26331), AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary (26553), and NVIDIA RTX A4000 (26683) all within 1.1% of each other.

The percentile ranks tell a similar story. The Intel Arc Pro A30M sits at the 76th percentile among all GPUs, while the AMD Radeon 860M sits at the 72nd percentile. The Intel part's average benchmark score is 31894, derived from its single OpenCL entry. The AMD part's average is 26401, which combines its OpenCL score of 22759 and its Vulkan score of 30043.

The Vulkan result for the AMD Radeon 860M deserves attention. At 30043, it is significantly higher than the AMD part's own OpenCL score of 22759, a 32.0% improvement within the same GPU. This suggests the Radeon 860M is substantially more competitive in Vulkan workloads than in OpenCL. Since the Intel Arc Pro A30M has no recorded Vulkan benchmark, the database cannot directly compare the two in that API. The AMD part's Vulkan score also places it close to the Intel part's OpenCL score, narrowing the overall performance gap to roughly 5.8% when comparing AMD's best result against Intel's only result.

The Verdict

For OpenCL compute workloads, the Intel Arc Pro A30M is the clear winner. Its 31894 score beats the AMD Radeon 860M by 40.1%, a margin large enough to matter in any compute-heavy application. The Intel part also holds advantages in shading units, texture units, render output units, pixel rate, texture rate, FP32 throughput, and FP16 throughput. It achieves this with dedicated 4 GB GDDR6 memory and a fixed 128.0 GB/s bandwidth, avoiding the platform dependency of the AMD part's shared memory design.

For power-constrained mobile designs, the AMD Radeon 860M is the better choice. Its 15 W TDP is exactly one-third of the Intel part's 50 W TDP, making it suitable for systems where the Intel part's power draw would be prohibitive. The AMD part also offers a validated Vulkan path with a strong 30043 score, which the Intel part cannot match because no Vulkan result exists in the database.

The production status favors AMD as well. The Intel Arc Pro A30M is end-of-life, while the AMD Radeon 860M is active. For new system designs, the active part is the more sustainable option.

The choice comes down to workload and platform. If the priority is raw OpenCL compute and dedicated memory, and the power budget can accommodate 50 W, the Intel Arc Pro A30M wins decisively. If the priority is low power, Vulkan compatibility, and an active production part, the AMD Radeon 860M is the appropriate selection. The data does not support a single universal winner; it supports two distinct use cases with different requirements.