Intel Arc A730M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

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Intel Arc A730M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Arc A730M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M 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 6 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

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

2432 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1124MHz vs 1100MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A730M +369%

6.758 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

1.439 TFLOPS

Arc A730M

VS

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Mar 2015

Alchemist

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

300 MHz

Base Clock

993 MHz

1100 MHz

Boost Clock

1124 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

3072

Shading Units

640

192

TMUs

40

96

ROPs

16

-

24

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

12 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

105.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.98 GPixel/s

211.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.96 GTexel/s

13.52 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.758 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1439 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

44.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

GM107

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

N16P-GT

Generation 12.7

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

21.7 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

406 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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