Intel Arc A730M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Arc A730M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arc A730M 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1100MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (80W vs 122W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Arc A730M
+205%
6.758 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
2.209 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Oct 2012
Alchemist
Generation
GeForce 600M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
300 MHz
Base Clock
-
1100 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
336.0GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
3072
Shading Units
1536
192
TMUs
128
96
ROPs
32
-
-
-
24
RT Cores
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
12 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
105.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.01 GPixel/s
211.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
92.03 GTexel/s
13.52 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
6.758 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.209 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
92.03 GFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
122W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
GK104
ACM-G10
GPU Variant
N13E-GTX2-A2
Generation 12.7
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
28 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
406 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.1
-
CUDA
3.0
6.6
Shader Model
5.1
