AMD Radeon 740M vs GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile

We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Radeon 740M with 4 pipelines and 256 shaders against the 2 years and 9 months older GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile 4 GB that utilizes 16 pipelines and 1024 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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 GTX 1650 Laptop over Radeon 740M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 740M
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Ray-tracing support with 4 dedicated RT cores
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.3x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Includes 4 GB of dedicated GDDR6 memory
  • 2.3x higher maximum theoretical performance (3.2 vs 1.4 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 2x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 20 vs 10 FPS
  • Achieves 3.2x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (40K vs 12K)
  • Has 4x more shading units (1024 vs 256)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
25
13
12
-
53
29
23
14
The Witcher 3
10
11
-
-
40
33
21
9
Counter-Strike 2
28
19
13
-
69
48
33
13
Far Cry 6
20
18
11
-
41
39
26
15
Hogwarts Legacy
12
9
-
-
25
17
13
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
19
19
14
9
35
27
17
13
Ghost of Tsushima
12
9
-
-
22
15
12
-
Cyberpunk 2077
10
9
-
-
24
20
12
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
18
17
12
-
45
42
24
13
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 17 39
1080p Ultra 14 30
1440p Ultra 10 20
4K Ultra - 11
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
3260
Time Spy 1571 3442
Solar Bay 5514 -
Port Royal 722 6905
Fire Strike 4931 9316
Wild Life Extreme 3115 6925
Night Raid 16642 40580
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
12774
40588
Background Blur 31.6 img/sec 74.4 img/sec
Face Detection 15.3 img/sec 42 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.44 Gpixels/sec 1.47 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.56 Gpixels/sec 1.93 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.47 Gpixels/sec 1.81 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.17 Gpixels/sec 0.52 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 47 Gpixels/sec 187 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1815.3 FPS 5347.1 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
6968
G2D Mark 778 384
DirectX 11 24 FPS 50 FPS
DirectX 12 16 FPS 27 FPS
GPU Compute 1628 Ops/s 2750 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6]2190 & 1754 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
102.53
373.69
Sources: Blender [9], [10]12 & 74 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
7029
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
5358
Image Classification (SP) 1608 2866
Image Segmentation (HP) 2046 3745
Image Super Resolution (Q) 5074 6865
Face Detection (HP) 5435 6519
Pose Estimation (Q) 16992 24706
Text Classification (SP) 1469 1793
Machine Translation (HP) 1922 1906
Object Detection (SP) 1516 3498
Depth Estimation (Q) 7572 13936
Style Transfer (SP) 30182 50917
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 740M and GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Integrated Discrete
Released January 4, 2023 April 15, 2020
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Gaming
Segment Entry-level Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.0 Turing
GPU Codename Phoenix TU117
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores) - Radeon RX 5500M
Successor - Radeon 840M -
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 8540U or above - Intel Core i5 10300H 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
-
Laptop GPU ranking (114th and 113th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 800 MHz 1380 MHz
Boost Clock 2500-2800 MHz (configurable) 1560 MHz
Shading Units 256 1024
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 16 64
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 4 16
Tensor Cores - No
Ray-tracing Cores 4 No
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 64KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 1024KB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 20-22 GPixel/s 50 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 40-45 GTexel/s 100 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
1.3-1.4 TFLOPS
3.2 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 15 W 50 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 12 nm
Die Size 178 mm² 200 mm²
Transistor Count 25.4 billion 4.7 billion
Transistor Density 142.7 MTr/mm² 23.5 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature 95°C -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared GDDR6
Memory Size - 4 GB
Memory Clock - 1500 MHz
Effective Memory Speed - 12000 Mbps
Bus - 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 1.2
CUDA - 7.5
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1 1.4

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5 (62.5%)
3 (37.5%)
Total votes: 8

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