GeForce 940MX vs Arc A730M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 940MX and 12GB VRAM Arc A730M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 940MX Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 13% (1242MHz vs 1100MHz)
Lower TDP (23W vs 80W)
Arc A730M Advantages
Released 6 years late
More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)
2688 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 940MX
954
Arc A730M
+608%
6758
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce 940MX
579
Arc A730M
+1192%
7485
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce 940MX
132
Arc A730M
+2978%
4064
Blender
GeForce 940MX
72
Arc A730M
+1838%
1396
Graphics Card
Jan 2016
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce 900M
Generation
Alchemist
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1004 MHz
Base Clock
300 MHz
1242 MHz
Boost Clock
1100 MHz
1001 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
12GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
64bit
Memory Bus
192bit
16.02GB/s
Bandwidth
336.0GB/s
Render Config
384
Shading Units
3072
24
TMUs
192
8
ROPs
96
-
RT Cores
24
64 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
12 MB
Theoretical Performance
9.936 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
105.6 GPixel/s
29.81 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
211.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
13.52 TFLOPS
953.9 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.758 TFLOPS
29.81 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
23W
TDP
80W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GM108
GPU Name
DG2-512
N16S-GTR-S
GPU Variant
ACM-G10
Maxwell
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
6 nm
Unknown
Transistors
21.7 billion
Unknown
Die Size
406 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
