GeForce 940M vs Arc A730M
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
GeForce 940M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)
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
1124
Arc A730M
+501%
6758
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce 940M
507
Arc A730M
+1376%
7485
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce 940M
120
Arc A730M
+3286%
4064
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
512
Shading Units
3072
32
TMUs
192
16
ROPs
96
-
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)
-
Board Design
75W
TDP
80W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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
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
