NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition vs Intel Arc A730M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition and 12GB VRAM Arc A730M 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)
GeForce GTX 680MX Mac Edition
2.209 TFLOPS
Arc A730M
+205%
6.758 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2012
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce 600M
Generation
Alchemist
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
300 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1100 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
336.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
3072
128
TMUs
192
32
ROPs
96
-
-
-
-
RT Cores
24
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
12 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
105.6 GPixel/s
92.03 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
211.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
13.52 TFLOPS
2.209 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.758 TFLOPS
92.03 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
122W
TDP
80W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
DG2-512
N13E-GTX2-A2
GPU Variant
ACM-G10
Kepler
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
6 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
21.7 billion
294 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
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
