Intel Arc A730M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Arc A730M and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A730M 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (1100MHz vs 758MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A730M +231%

6.758 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680M

2.038 TFLOPS

Blender

Arc A730M +685%

1485

GeForce GTX 680M

189

Arc A730M

VS

GeForce GTX 680M

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jun 2012

Alchemist

Generation

GeForce 600M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

300 MHz

Base Clock

719 MHz

1100 MHz

Boost Clock

758 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

3072

Shading Units

1344

192

TMUs

112

96

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

24

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

12 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

105.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.22 GPixel/s

211.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.90 GTexel/s

13.52 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.758 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.038 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

84.90 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

GK104

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

N13E-GTX-A2

Generation 12.7

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

21.7 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

406 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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