NVIDIA GeForce MX570 vs Intel Arc A350M vs Intel Arc A730M

NVIDIA GeForce MX570

The Nvidia GeForce MX570 or MX570 A (GN20-S5, Device ID 0x25A6) is an entry-level mobile graphics card for laptops. It is based on the Ampere GA107 chip with 2 GB GDDR6. Compared to the similar GeForce RTX 2050, the MX570 offers 2 GB less VRAM and a lower TDP. Compared to the RTX 3050, the MX570 and RTX 2050 offer a greatly reduced memory bus of only 64 Bit. In theory the MX570 also offers Raytracing and Tensor cores, but the performance for Raytracing will be too low. DLSS however could help in selected games.

The gaming performance of the mobile GeForce MX570 is often clearly restricted by the small amount of VRAM. E.g. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle did not even start due to not enough video memory. Other games see big drop offs in performance when increasing detail settings (even compared to modern iGPUs). Therefore, only older games or low demanding games (like Counter-Strike 2) can be played with high quality mode.

The GA107 chip is manufactured on an 8nm process. The raytracing cores are not usable in the MX570.

Intel Arc A350M

The Intel Arc A350M is a dedicated mobile entry level graphics card for laptops based on Xe HPG microarchitecture. It uses the ACM-G11 chip and offers 6 of the 8 Xe-cores (95 ALUs), 6 of the 8 ray tracing units and a 64-bit memory bus for 4 GB GDDR6 graphics memory. The chip integrates 7.2 billion transistors and the die measures 157 mm2.

The chip also integrates two media engines for VP9, AVC, HEVC, and AV1 8k en- and decoding. The 4 display pipes support up to 4x 4k120 HDR via DMI 2.0B or DisplayPort 2.0 10G. 

The A350M is produced in 6nm at TSMC (N6 process) and supports dynamic power share (using Deep Link) with 12th gen Intel CPUs (Alder Lake).

Intel Arc A730M

The Intel Arc A730M (device ID 5691) is a dedicated mobile lower- mid-range graphics card for laptops based on Xe HPG microarchitecture. It uses the ACM-G10 chip and offers 24 of the 32 Xe-cores (384 ALUs), 24 ray tracing units and a 192-bit memory bus for 12 GB GDDR6 graphics memory. The cores can clock from 300 MHz (low frequency mode) to 1100 MHz (high frequency) or in short bursts 2050 MHz (Turbo). The chip integrates 21.7 billion transistors, uses a BGA2660 package (soldered), and the die measures 406 mm2.

The performance of the Arc A730M is not yet known. The power consumption is similar to a RTX 3060 and therefore we see the performance slightly below a RTX 3060 mobile.

The chip also integrates two media engines for VP9, AVC, HEVC, and AV1 8k en- and decoding. The 4 display pipes support up to 4x 4k120 HDR via DMI 2.0B or DisplayPort 2.0 10G. 

The A730M is produced in 6nm at TSMC (N6 process) and supports dynamic power share (using Deep Link) with 12th gen Intel CPUs (Alder Lake).