AMD has benchmarked the performance of Intel's laptop Intel Arc 3 A370M GPU and compared it with the Radeon RX 6500M.
The A370M's performance matches what Intel has announced: it can run AAA games at Medium settings and 1080p resolution at more than 60 fps. Next to the Radeon RX 6500M, though, it still trails by a wide margin, from 27 to 114% depending on the game.
The Intel Arc 3 A370M uses Intel's ACM-G10 GPU from the Alchemist generation, with 8 Xe cores (128 XVE), a 1.55 GHz clock speed and 4 GB of GDDR6 memory, delivering about 3 TFLOPS of FP32 performance. The Radeon RX 6500M, meanwhile, is an entry-level AMD GPU built on the Navi 24 chip with the RDNA 2 architecture, 16 CUs (1024 Stream processors), a maximum clock speed of 2.4 GHz and 4 GB of GDDR6 memory, with FP32 performance of 4.915 TFLOPS. Setting architectural differences aside, the A370M is clearly no match for the Radeon RX 6500M. Its FP32 numbers suggest it can only compete with NVIDIA's MX450 or MX550/570, and on the AMD side, probably the Radeon RX 6300M.
It is unclear which laptop AMD used to benchmark the A370M, which machine it compared against running the RX 6500M, or how much power the two GPUs drew in these games. All we know is that the A370M and RX 6500M both have a maximum TDP of 50 W. The slide AMD published also shows that Intel manufactures its Intel Arc A-series GPUs on the TSMC N6 process, like the Radeon RX 6000 Mobile series. The Intel Arc A370M has 7.2 billion transistors, far more than the RX 6500M's 5.4 billion.
