GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q vs Arc A730M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking203not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency23.32no data
ArchitectureGeneration 12.7 (2022−2023)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameDG2-512AD107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date2022 (2 years ago)3 January 2023 (1 year 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 cores30722560
Core clock speed1100 MHz1140 MHz
Boost clock speed2050 MHz1605 MHz
Number of transistors21,700 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology6 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate393.6128.4
Floating-point processing power12.6 TFLOPS8.218 TFLOPS
ROPs9632
TMUs19280
Tensor Cores38480
Ray Tracing Cores2420

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 sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 amount12 GB6 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth336.0 GB/s168.0 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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentPortable 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 Model6.66.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 6 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 35 Watt

Arc A730M has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RTX 4050 Max-Q, on the other hand, has a 50% more advanced lithography process, and 128.6% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Arc A730M and GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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Intel Arc A730M
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