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AMD Radeon 740M vs Intel Arc iGPU (7-Cores)

Radeon 740M
VS
Intel Arc iGPU (7-Cores)
AMD Radeon 740M
Phoenix
Intel Arc iGPU (7-Cores)

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 740M with 4 pipelines and 256 shaders against the 11 months newer Intel Arc iGPU (7-Cores) that utilizes 112 pipelines and 896 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

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 Arc iGPU (7-Cores) over Radeon 740M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 740M
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the Intel Arc iGPU (7-Cores)
  • 2.8x higher maximum theoretical performance (3.9 vs 1.4 TFLOPS)
  • Achieves 2.1x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (27K vs 12K)
  • Has 3.5x more shading units (896 vs 256)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
Radeon 740M
vs
Arc iGPU (7-Cores)

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 High

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
Time Spy 1571 -
Solar Bay 5514 -
Port Royal 722 -
Fire Strike 4931 -
Wild Life Extreme 3115 -
Night Raid 16642 -
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Radeon 740M
12774
Arc iGPU (7-Cores) +113%
27187
Background Blur 31.6 img/sec 44.2 img/sec
Face Detection 15.3 img/sec 21.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.44 Gpixels/sec 0.92 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.56 Gpixels/sec 1.04 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.47 Gpixels/sec 1.86 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.17 Gpixels/sec 0.32 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 47 Gpixels/sec 115.8 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1815.3 FPS 5380.5 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
G2D Mark 778 -
DirectX 11 24 FPS -
DirectX 12 16 FPS -
GPU Compute 1628 Ops/s -
Sources: PassMark [5] – 2190 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9] – 12 samples
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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
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 1608 2092
Image Segmentation (HP) 2046 5680
Image Super Resolution (Q) 5074 3418
Face Detection (HP) 5435 7436
Pose Estimation (Q) 16992 11114
Text Classification (SP) 1469 732
Machine Translation (HP) 1922 1896
Object Detection (SP) 1516 2158
Depth Estimation (Q) 7572 6898
Style Transfer (SP) 30182 39845
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 740M and Intel Arc iGPU (7-Cores)

General

Vendor Amd Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 4, 2023 December 14, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.0 Xe LPG
GPU Codename Phoenix -
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores) - Radeon 760M
Successor - Radeon 840M - Intel Arc 130V
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 8540U or above - Intel Core Ultra 5 125H 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		 - Intel Core Ultra 5 125H
Laptop GPU ranking (115th and 84th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 800 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 2500-2800 MHz (configurable) 2200 MHz
Shading Units 256 896
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 16 56
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 24
Compute Units (Pipelines) 4 112
Ray-tracing Cores 4 7
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 1344KB shared
L2 Cache 2MB shared -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 20-22 GPixel/s 53 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 40-45 GTexel/s 123 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 740M
1.3-1.4 TFLOPS
Arc iGPU (7-Cores) +179%
3.9 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 Ring Bus
TGP 15 W 28 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 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
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1 2.1

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