Intel Arc A730M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Arc A730M and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 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 4 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)
1792 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 35% (1480MHz vs 1100MHz)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Arc A730M
+78%
6.758 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q
3.789 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Arc A730M
+119%
7485
GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q
3415
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Arc A730M
+162%
4064
GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q
1548
Blender
Arc A730M
+310%
1396
GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q
340
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Jun 2017
Alchemist
Generation
GeForce 10 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
300 MHz
Base Clock
1063 MHz
1100 MHz
Boost Clock
1480 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
192bit
336.0GB/s
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
10
3072
Shading Units
1280
192
TMUs
80
96
ROPs
48
-
-
-
24
RT Cores
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
12 MB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
105.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
71.04 GPixel/s
211.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
13.52 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
59.20 GFLOPS
6.758 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
118.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
80W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
GP106
ACM-G10
GPU Variant
N17E-G1-A1
Generation 12.7
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
16 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
4.4 billion
406 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²
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
6.1
6.6
Shader Model
6.4
