Intel Arc A730M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

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Intel Arc A730M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Arc A730M and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A730M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1178MHz vs 1100MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A730M +72%

6.758 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

3.92 TFLOPS

Blender

Arc A730M +489%

1485

GeForce GTX 980MX

252

Arc A730M

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GeForce GTX 980MX

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jun 2016

Alchemist

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

300 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1100 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

3072

Shading Units

1664

192

TMUs

104

96

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

24

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

12 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

105.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

75.39 GPixel/s

211.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

13.52 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.758 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

GM204

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

Generation 12.7

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

21.7 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

406 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

148W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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