First Intel Arc A730M Powered Gaming Laptop Lands At Retail

As far as we know for sure, Intel's Arc graphics parts based on the Alchemist architecture will come in fundamentally two forms—a smaller die with up to 128 EUs, and a bigger die with up to 512 EUs. Obviously, indivdual SKUs will vary on the number of active functional elements, but aside from one curious oddity in the Linux source pointing to a third chip, we only know of the two.


The Arc A730M is, as hardware geeks will probably surmise from the name, not a full-fat implementation of the "ACM-G10" chip, otherwise known as DG2-512. Compared to the top-end (as we know it) Arc A770M, it drops a quarter of its shaders (down to 3072 FP32s) along with a quarter of its memory bus. It also steps down to 14 Gbps memory, giving it a final bandwidth of 336 GB/sec. Based on the specifications alone, we expect it to be a credible competitor to the mobile GeForce RTX 3060.

We already knew Intel was going to launch its next Arc GPUs in China, so the geographic location of this launch isn't a surprise. It is a little surprising that this laptop is launching with no fanfare from Intel, though. It will be interesting to see if any Chinese outlets snap up this machine and put it through its paces; we'll let you know as soon as we have real-world performance figures on it.