Intel Arc 3 A370M vs GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

We compared two discrete laptop graphics cards: the Intel Arc 3 A370M with 128 pipelines and 1024 shaders against the 1 year and 3 months older GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile that utilizes 16 pipelines and 2048 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 3050 Mobile over Arc 3 A370M
Reasons to consider the Intel Arc 3 A370M
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 6 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop
  • Performs significantly better (up to 64%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 88% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 32 vs 17 FPS
  • 69% higher maximum theoretical performance (7.1 vs 4.2 TFLOPS)
  • Has 2x higher memory bandwidth: 192 vs 96 GB/s
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
  • Achieves 86% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (58K vs 31K)
  • Has 2x more shading units (2048 vs 1024)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
49
26
19
11
75
44
34
21
The Witcher 3
39
30
21
11
68
53
38
20
Counter-Strike 2
43
29
22
10
115
80
54
23
Far Cry 6
33
32
22
10
60
52
40
17
Hogwarts Legacy
17
12
9
-
37
28
23
12
CoD: Modern Warfare III
28
26
19
13
48
37
27
16
Ghost of Tsushima
21
16
13
-
37
28
18
10
Cyberpunk 2077
23
17
9
-
36
35
19
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
36
33
18
11
66
62
39
18
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 32 60
1080p Ultra 25 47
1440p Ultra 17 32
4K Ultra 9 16
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
4911
Time Spy 3440 4884
Solar Bay 11659 21596
Port Royal 386 552
Fire Strike 7940 12571
Wild Life Extreme 5456 9400
Night Raid 36305 53685
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
31544
58733
Background Blur 70.6 img/sec 88.6 img/sec
Face Detection 32.2 img/sec 57.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.47 Gpixels/sec 2.53 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.37 Gpixels/sec 3.33 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.15 Gpixels/sec 2.55 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.34 Gpixels/sec 0.76 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 138.8 Gpixels/sec 256.5 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 7194.7 FPS 7465.5 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
9506
G2D Mark 724 493
DirectX 11 29 FPS 71 FPS
DirectX 12 24 FPS 46 FPS
GPU Compute 3014 Ops/s 3868 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 2 & 20037 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
1154.04
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 7 & 1497 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel Arc 3 A370M
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-08-31 (bobschieffer)Geekbench 6 OpenCL61418
📘 2026-08-29 (bobschieffer)Cinebench 20243654
📘 2026-08-13 -> Kushagra_AggarwalSteel Nomad Light5735
📘 2026-01-26 (rar)Geekbench 6 OpenCL68364

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
10038
GB6 ML Half Precision
19152
GB6 ML Quantized
6984
Image Classification (SP) 2580 4349
Image Segmentation (HP) 4626 11416
Image Super Resolution (Q) 4983 8973
Face Detection (HP) 5258 18927
Pose Estimation (Q) 16072 34631
Text Classification (SP) 669 2269
Machine Translation (HP) 1373 3539
Object Detection (SP) 3260 5046
Depth Estimation (Q) 9652 15772
Style Transfer (SP) 47484 75260
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Intel Arc 3 A370M and GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

General

Vendor Intel Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released March 30, 2022 January 1, 2021
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Gaming
Segment Entry-level Mid-range
Architecture Intel Xe-HPG Ampere
GPU Codename ACM-G11 GA107
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 1240P or above -
Laptop GPU ranking (111th and 93rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1150-1550 MHz (configurable) 712-1530 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 1550-2050 MHz (configurable) 1057-1740 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 1024 2048
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64 64
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 40
Compute Units (Pipelines) 128 16
Tensor Cores - 64
Ray-tracing Cores 8 16
L1 Cache 1536KB shared 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 50-66 GPixel/s 42-70 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 99-131 GTexel/s 68-111 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
3.2-4.2 TFLOPS
4.3-7.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 35-50 W (configurable) 35-95 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Fabrication Process 6 nm 8 nm
Die Size 157 mm² 200 mm²
Transistor Count 7.2 billion 8.7 billion
Transistor Density 45.86 MTr/mm² 43.5 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 4 GB 4 GB
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 1500 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 12000 Mbps 12000 Mbps
Bus 64-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
96 GB/s
192 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA - 8.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 2
DisplayPort 2.0 1.4a

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