AMD Radeon 740M vs Adreno X1-45
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AMD Radeon 740M
Phoenix
Adreno X1-45
Adreno X1
We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 740M with 4 pipelines and 256 shaders against the 10 months newer Adreno X1-45 that utilizes 3 pipelines and 768 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Radeon 740M
- Performs better (up to 28%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Achieves 28% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (12K vs 9K)
Reasons to consider the Adreno X1-45
- 50% higher maximum theoretical performance (2.1 vs 1.4 TFLOPS)
- Has 3x more shading units (768 vs 256)
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 | 928 |
| Solar Bay | 5514 | 5990 |
| Port Royal | 722 | - |
| Fire Strike | 4931 | 3707 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 3115 | 3225 |
| Night Raid | 16642 | 16550 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 31.6 img/sec | 14.2 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 15.3 img/sec | 6.82 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 0.44 Gpixels/sec | 0.56 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 0.56 Gpixels/sec | 0.65 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 0.47 Gpixels/sec | 0.55 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.17 Gpixels/sec | 0.12 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 47 Gpixels/sec | 26.6 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 1815.3 FPS | 1746.7 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 778 | 348 |
| DirectX 11 | 24 FPS | 13 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 16 FPS | 10 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 1628 Ops/s | 807 Ops/s |
Recent User Tests
Radeon 740M
No benchmark results yet
Adreno X1-45
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2025-03-18 (Rennsport) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 9564 |
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 | - |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 2046 | - |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 5074 | - |
| Face Detection (HP) | 5435 | - |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 16992 | - |
| Text Classification (SP) | 1469 | - |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 1922 | - |
| Object Detection (SP) | 1516 | - |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 7572 | - |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 30182 | - |
| Framework | ONNX | - |
| Backend | DirectML | - |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon 740M and Adreno X1-45General
| 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 M2 GPU (8-core) |
| Successor | - Radeon 840M | - |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen 5 8540U or above | - Qualcomm Snapdragon X (X1-26-100) 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 (X1-26-100) - Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-42-100) - Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-46-100) |
Laptop GPU ranking (116th and 107th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 800 MHz | 280 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2500-2800 MHz (configurable) | 1107-1367 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 256 | 768 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 16 | 48 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 8 | 24 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 4 | 3 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 4 | - |
| 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 | 27-33 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 40-45 GTexel/s | 53-66 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | IGP |
| TGP | 15 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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