AMD Radeon 740M vs Adreno X1-85

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 740M with 4 pipelines and 256 shaders against the 9 months newer Adreno X1-85 that utilizes 6 pipelines and 1536 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 Adreno X1-85 over Radeon 740M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 740M
  • Ray-tracing support with 4 dedicated RT cores
Reasons to consider the Adreno X1-85
  • Performs significantly better (up to 49%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 3.3x higher maximum theoretical performance (4.6 vs 1.4 TFLOPS)
  • Has 6x more shading units (1536 vs 256)
  • Achieves 91% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (24K vs 12K)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
25
13
12
-
-
The Witcher 3
10
11
-
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
28
19
13
-
-
Far Cry 6
20
18
11
-
-
Hogwarts Legacy
12
9
-
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
19
19
14
9
-
Ghost of Tsushima
12
9
-
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077
10
9
-
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
18
17
12
-
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 17 -
1080p Ultra 14 -
1440p Ultra 10 -
4K Ultra - -
Margin of Error High 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
2067
Time Spy 1571 1695
Solar Bay 5514 10596
Port Royal 722 -
Fire Strike 4931 6134
Wild Life Extreme 3115 6152
Night Raid 16642 28868
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
12774
24387
Background Blur 31.6 img/sec 36.4 img/sec
Face Detection 15.3 img/sec 17.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.44 Gpixels/sec 1.19 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.56 Gpixels/sec 1.3 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.47 Gpixels/sec 1.42 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.17 Gpixels/sec 0.3 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 47 Gpixels/sec 72.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1815.3 FPS 4692.5 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
2981
G2D Mark 778 518
DirectX 11 24 FPS 19 FPS
DirectX 12 16 FPS 10 FPS
GPU Compute 1628 Ops/s 1958 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 2190 & 7 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9] – 12 samples

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
Radeon 740M +105%
4462
GB6 ML Half Precision
5298
GB6 ML Quantized
3419
Image Classification (SP) 1608 1347
Image Segmentation (HP) 2046 2661
Image Super Resolution (Q) 5074 3084
Face Detection (HP) 5435 5354
Pose Estimation (Q) 16992 7719
Text Classification (SP) 1469 292
Machine Translation (HP) 1922 1108
Object Detection (SP) 1516 660
Depth Estimation (Q) 7572 3876
Style Transfer (SP) 30182 12048
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 740M and Adreno X1-85

General

Vendor Amd Qualcomm
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 4, 2023 October 24, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 3.0 Adreno X1
GPU Codename Phoenix Adreno X1
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores) - Apple M4 GPU (10-Core)
Successor - Radeon 840M - Adreno X2-90
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 8540U or above - Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-64-100) or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen 7 7445HS
- AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 215
- AMD Ryzen 3 210
- AMD Ryzen 5 220
- AMD Ryzen Z1
- AMD Ryzen 3 8300G
- AMD Ryzen 5 8500G
- AMD Ryzen 5 8540U
- and 2 more
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-66-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-78-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-80-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-64-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100)
Laptop GPU ranking (115th and 112th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 800 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 2500-2800 MHz (configurable) 1200-1500 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 256 1536
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 16 96
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 4 6
Ray-tracing Cores 4 No
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 192KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 1MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 20-22 GPixel/s 58-72 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 40-45 GTexel/s 115-144 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
1.3-1.4 TFLOPS
Adreno X1-85 +229%
3.7-4.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 IGP
TGP 15 W 30 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 4 nm
Die Size 178 mm² -
Transistor Count 25.4 billion -
Transistor Density 142.7 MTr/mm² -
Max. Temperature 95°C -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
ECC No -

API

DirectX 12 12.1
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 3.2
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA - No
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1 1.4

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