Intel Arc A730M vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Arc A730M and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A730M 's Advantages

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX550 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 20% (1320MHz vs 1100MHz)

Lower TDP (25W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A730M +150%

6.758 TFLOPS

GeForce MX550

2.703 TFLOPS

Arc A730M

VS

GeForce MX550

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jan 2022

Alchemist

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

300 MHz

Base Clock

1065 MHz

1100 MHz

Boost Clock

1320 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

3072

Shading Units

1024

192

TMUs

32

96

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

24

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

12 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

105.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.12 GPixel/s

211.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.24 GTexel/s

13.52 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.703 TFLOPS

6.758 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

42.24 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

TU117

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

MX550

Generation 12.7

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

12 nm

21.7 billion

Transistors

4.7 billion

406 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

25W

-

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

7.5

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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