Intel Arc A730M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

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Intel Arc A730M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Arc A730M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition 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 3 months late

Boost Clock1100MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 122W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A730M +205%

6.758 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

2.209 TFLOPS

Arc A730M

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GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Oct 2012

Alchemist

Generation

GeForce 600M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

300 MHz

Base Clock

-

1100 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

3072

Shading Units

1536

192

TMUs

128

96

ROPs

32

-

24

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

12 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

105.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.01 GPixel/s

211.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.03 GTexel/s

13.52 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.758 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.209 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

92.03 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

122W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

GK104

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

N13E-GTX2-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

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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