Arc A730M vs Matrox Millennium G550 PCIe

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated201
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data23.70
ArchitectureG500 (2001−2005)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameCondorDG2-512
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date26 November 2001 (23 years ago)2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 no data

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 coresno data3072
Core clock speed125 MHz1100 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2050 MHz
Number of transistors10 million21,700 million
Manufacturing process technology180 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data80 Watt
Texture fill rate0.25393.6
Floating-point processing powerno data12.6 TFLOPS
ROPs296
TMUs2192
Tensor Coresno data384
Ray Tracing Coresno data24

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 sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 1.0 x1PCIe 4.0 x16
Length112 mmno data
Width1-slotno 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 typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount32 MB12 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed166 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth2.656 GB/s336.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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 Connectors2x DVIPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX8.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGL1.54.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 32 MB 12 GB
Chip lithography 180 nm 6 nm

Arc A730M has a 38300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 2900% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Matrox Millennium G550 PCIe and Arc A730M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Matrox Millennium G550 PCIe is a desktop card while Arc A730M is a notebook one.


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