Intel Arc A370M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q

Comparative analysis of Intel Arc A370M and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

Intel Arc A370M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Arc A370M

Around 36% higher core clock speed: 1550 MHz vs 1140 MHz
Around 28% higher boost clock speed: 2050 MHz vs 1605 MHz
Around 2% higher texture fill rate: 131.2 GTexel/s vs 128.4 GTexel/s
2.4x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 85 Watt

Core clock speed	1550 MHz vs 1140 MHz
Boost clock speed	2050 MHz vs 1605 MHz
Texture fill rate	131.2 GTexel/s vs 128.4 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 85 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 3 month(s) later
2.5x more pipelines: 2560 vs 1024
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 6 nm
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 4 GB

Launch date	2023 vs 30 Mar 2022
Pipelines	2560 vs 1024
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 6 nm
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 4 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Arc A370M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q

Name	Intel Arc A370M	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	167.171
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1470.844
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	10.937
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	71.258
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	482.549
PassMark - G2D Mark	724
PassMark - G3D Mark	5115
Geekbench - OpenCL	29747
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	3443

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Arc A370M	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 12.7	Ada Lovelace
Code name	DG2-128	AD107
Launch date	30 Mar 2022	2023
Place in performance rating	333	not rated
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2050 MHz	1605 MHz
Core clock speed	1550 MHz	1140 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	4 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	1,050 GFLOPS (1:4)	128.4 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	8.397 TFLOPS (2:1)	8.218 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	4.198 TFLOPS	8.218 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1024	2560
Pixel fill rate	65.60 GPixel/s	51.36 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	131.2 GTexel/s	128.4 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	85 Watt
Transistor count	7200 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	Portable Device Dependent
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	3.0	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.6	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	6 GB
Memory bandwidth	112.0 GB/s	168.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	96 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6