NVIDIA GeForce 940M vs Intel Arc A730M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 940M and 12GB VRAM Arc A730M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 940M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

Intel Arc A730M 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 0% (1100MHz vs 1098MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 940M

1.124 TFLOPS

Arc A730M +501%

6.758 TFLOPS

GeForce 940M

VS

Arc A730M

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 900M

Generation

Alchemist

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1020 MHz

Base Clock

300 MHz

1098 MHz

Boost Clock

1100 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

3072

32

TMUs

192

16

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

24

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

12 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.57 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

105.6 GPixel/s

35.14 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

211.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

13.52 TFLOPS

1124 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.758 TFLOPS

35.14 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

DG2-512

N16S-GT1-KB-B

GPU Variant

ACM-G10

Maxwell

Architecture

Generation 12.7

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

21.7 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

406 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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