Intel Arc A730M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Arc A730M and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arc A730M 's Advantages
Released 1 years late
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 17% (1290MHz vs 1100MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)
2048 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Arc A730M
6.758 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q
+95%
13.21 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Jan 2021
Alchemist
Generation
GeForce 30 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
300 MHz
Base Clock
780 MHz
1100 MHz
Boost Clock
1290 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
336.0GB/s
Bandwidth
384.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
40
3072
Shading Units
5120
192
TMUs
160
96
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
160
24
RT Cores
40
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
12 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
105.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
103.2 GPixel/s
211.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
206.4 GTexel/s
13.52 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
13.21 TFLOPS
6.758 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.21 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
206.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
80W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
GA104
ACM-G10
GPU Variant
GA104-770-A1
Generation 12.7
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
6 nm
Process Size
8 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
406 mm²
Die Size
392 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
6.6
Shader Model
6.6
