NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M vs Intel Arc A730M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 850M and 12GB VRAM Arc A730M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 80W)

Intel Arc A730M 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1100MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 32.03GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 850M

1.155 TFLOPS

Arc A730M +485%

6.758 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 850M

VS

Arc A730M

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 800M

Generation

Alchemist

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

300 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1100 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

32.03GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

3072

40

TMUs

192

16

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

24

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

12 MB

Theoretical Performance

14.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

105.6 GPixel/s

36.08 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

211.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

13.52 TFLOPS

1155 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.758 TFLOPS

36.08 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

DG2-512

N15P-GT-A1

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

45W

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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