Arc A730M vs GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated203
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data23.33
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameGA104DG2-512
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date12 January 2021 (3 years ago)2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores51203072
Core clock speed780 MHz1100 MHz
Boost clock speed1290 MHz2050 MHz
Number of transistors17,400 million21,700 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate206.4393.6
Floating-point processing power13.21 TFLOPS12.6 TFLOPS
ROPs8096
TMUs160192
Tensor Cores160384
Ray Tracing Cores4024

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargemedium sized
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB12 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth384.0 GB/s336.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA8.6-

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 8 nm 6 nm

Arc A730M has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 33.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q and Arc A730M. We've got no test results to judge.


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