Intel Arc A730M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Arc A730M and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arc A730M 's Advantages
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q 's Advantages
Released 1 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 12% (1230MHz vs 1100MHz)
1536 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (35W vs 80W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Arc A730M
6.758 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q
+67%
11.34 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Jan 2023
Alchemist
Generation
GeForce 40 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
300 MHz
Base Clock
735 MHz
1100 MHz
Boost Clock
1230 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
336.0GB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
36
3072
Shading Units
4608
192
TMUs
144
96
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
144
24
RT Cores
36
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
12 MB
L2 Cache
32 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
105.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
59.04 GPixel/s
211.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
177.1 GTexel/s
13.52 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
11.34 TFLOPS
6.758 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
11.34 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
177.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
35W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
AD106
ACM-G10
GPU Variant
GN21-X6
Generation 12.7
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
5 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
22.9 billion
406 mm²
Die Size
188 mm²
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
8.9
6.6
Shader Model
6.8
