AMD Radeon 740M vs Adreno X1-85
AMD Radeon 740M
Phoenix
Adreno X1-85
Adreno X1
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
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
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 resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 25 13 12 - |
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| The Witcher 3 | 10 11 - - |
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| Counter-Strike 2 | 28 19 13 - |
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| Far Cry 6 | 20 18 11 - |
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| Hogwarts Legacy | 12 9 - - |
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| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 19 19 14 9 |
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| Ghost of Tsushima | 12 9 - - |
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| Cyberpunk 2077 | 10 9 - - |
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| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 18 17 12 - |
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| 1080p High | 17 | - |
| 1080p Ultra | 14 | - |
| 1440p Ultra | 10 | - |
| 4K Ultra | - | - |
| Margin of Error | High | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 1571 | 1695 |
| Solar Bay | 5514 | 10596 |
| Port Royal | 722 | - |
| Fire Strike | 4931 | 6134 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 3115 | 6152 |
| Night Raid | 16642 | 28868 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| 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 |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 778 | 518 |
| DirectX 11 | 24 FPS | 19 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 16 FPS | 10 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 1628 Ops/s | 1958 Ops/s |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| 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 |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon 740M and Adreno X1-85General
| 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)
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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