Intel Arc A730M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Arc A730M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 550M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A730M 's Advantages

Released 11 years late

Boost Clock1100MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

2976 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A730M +2279%

6.758 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 550M

0.284 TFLOPS

Arc A730M

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GeForce GT 550M

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jan 2011

Alchemist

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

300 MHz

Base Clock

-

1100 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

3072

Shading Units

96

192

TMUs

16

96

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

24

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

12 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

105.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.960 GPixel/s

211.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.84 GTexel/s

13.52 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.758 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

284.2 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

23.68 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

GF108

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

N12P-GT1-A1

Generation 12.7

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

40 nm

21.7 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

406 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

35W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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