Intel Arc A730M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

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Intel Arc A730M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Arc A730M and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A730M 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 14% (1100MHz vs 967MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 120.0GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A730M +160%

6.758 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

2.599 TFLOPS

Arc A730M

VS

GeForce GTX 870M

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Mar 2014

Alchemist

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

300 MHz

Base Clock

941 MHz

1100 MHz

Boost Clock

967 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

120.0GB/s

Render Config

-

3072

Shading Units

1344

192

TMUs

112

96

ROPs

24

-

24

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

12 MB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

105.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.08 GPixel/s

211.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.3 GTexel/s

13.52 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.758 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.599 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

108.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

GK104

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

N15E-GT-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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