Intel Arc Pro A30M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

Comparative analysis of Intel Arc Pro A30M and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Arc Pro A30M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
  • Around 14% higher boost clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1755 MHz
  • Around 1% higher texture fill rate: 128.0 GTexel/s vs 126.4 GTexel/s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 8 nm
  • 2.6x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 130 Watt
  • Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Launch date 8 Aug 2022 vs 4 Jan 2022
Boost clock speed 2000 MHz vs 1755 MHz
Texture fill rate 128.0 GTexel/s vs 126.4 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt vs 130 Watt
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

  • Around 1% higher core clock speed: 1515 MHz vs 1500 MHz
  • 2.3x more pipelines: 2304 vs 1024
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
  • Around 95% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 60490 vs 30987
  • Around 37% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 952 vs 696
  • 2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 11931 vs 5862
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1515 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Pipelines 2304 vs 1024
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 60490 vs 30987
PassMark - G2D Mark 952 vs 696
PassMark - G3D Mark 11931 vs 5862

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Arc Pro A30M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
30987
60490
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
696
952
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
5862
11931
Name Intel Arc Pro A30M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM
Geekbench - OpenCL 30987 60490
PassMark - G2D Mark 696 952
PassMark - G3D Mark 5862 11931
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 6262
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 208.389
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2525.393
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 19.12
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 89.917
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 808.367

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Arc Pro A30M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

Essentials

Architecture Generation 12.7 Ampere
Code name DG2-128 GA106
Launch date 8 Aug 2022 4 Jan 2022
Place in performance rating 196 197

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2000 MHz 1755 MHz
Core clock speed 1500 MHz 1515 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm 8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 1,024 GFLOPS (1:4) 126.4 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 8.192 TFLOPS (2:1) 8.087 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 4.096 TFLOPS 8.087 TFLOPS
Pipelines 1024 2304
Pixel fill rate 64.00 GPixel/s 56.16 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 128.0 GTexel/s 126.4 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 130 Watt
Transistor count 7200 million 12000 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 8-pin
Form factor Dual-slot
Length 242 mm, 9.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU) 300 Watt
Width 112 mm, 4.4 inches

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 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 128.0 GB/s 224.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 64 bit 128 bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6