Intel Arc A730M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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We compared a Mobile platform GPU: 12GB VRAM Arc A730M and a Desktop platform GPU: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A730M 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Lower TDP (80W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 62% (1777MHz vs 1100MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A730M

6.758 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +88%

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Arc A730M

7521

GeForce RTX 3060 +16%

8760

Arc A730M

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jan 2021

Alchemist

Generation

GeForce 30

Mobile

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

300 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1100 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

-

Compute Units

-

3072

Shading Units

3584

192

TMUs

112

96

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

24

RT Cores

28

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

12 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

105.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

211.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

13.52 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

6.758 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

GA106

ACM-G10

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

Generation 12.7

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

6 nm

Process Size

8 nm

21.7 billion

Transistors

12 billion

406 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

170W

-

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

-

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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