AMD Radeon 740M vs Intel UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU)

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 740M with 4 pipelines and 256 shaders against the 1 year and 1 month older Intel UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU) that utilizes 32 pipelines and 256 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 UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU) over Radeon 740M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 740M
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.9x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Shows 2x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 10 vs 5 FPS
  • 75% higher maximum theoretical performance (1.4 vs 0.8 TFLOPS)
  • Ray-tracing support with 4 dedicated RT cores
  • Achieves 49% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (12K vs 8K)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
25
13
12
-
14
-
-
-
The Witcher 3
10
11
-
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
28
19
13
-
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
Time Spy 1571 670
Solar Bay 5514 -
Port Royal 722 -
Fire Strike 4931 2365
Wild Life Extreme 3115 1619
Night Raid 16642 9688
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 31.6 img/sec 18.6 img/sec
Face Detection 15.3 img/sec 12.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.44 Gpixels/sec 0.34 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.56 Gpixels/sec 0.53 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.47 Gpixels/sec 0.32 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.17 Gpixels/sec 0.1 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 47 Gpixels/sec 20.8 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1815.3 FPS 1203.8 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

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 765
Image Segmentation (HP) 2046 1214
Image Super Resolution (Q) 5074 981
Face Detection (HP) 5435 1893
Pose Estimation (Q) 16992 3752
Text Classification (SP) 1469 847
Machine Translation (HP) 1922 1028
Object Detection (SP) 1516 866
Depth Estimation (Q) 7572 2410
Style Transfer (SP) 30182 11417
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 740M and Intel UHD Graphics Xe (32 EU)

General

Vendor Amd Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 4, 2023 January 4, 2022
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 3.0 Generation 12.2
GPU Codename Phoenix Alder Lake GT1
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores) - Radeon RX Vega 7
Successor - Radeon 840M -
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 8540U or above - Intel Core i5 11500H 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 3 N355
- Intel Core i7 12650HX
- Intel Core i9 14900HX
- Intel Core i3 N300
- Intel Processor N200
- Intel Core i3 N305
- Intel Core i9 13900HX
- Intel Core i7 11850H
- and 4 more
Laptop GPU ranking (115th and 132nd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 800 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 2500-2800 MHz (configurable) 1450-1650 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 256 256
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 16 16
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 8
Compute Units (Pipelines) 4 32
Tensor Cores - No
Ray-tracing Cores 4 No
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster -
L2 Cache 2MB shared 1024KB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 20-22 GPixel/s 12-13 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 40-45 GTexel/s 23-26 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
1.3-1.4 TFLOPS
0.7-0.8 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 Ring Bus
TGP 15 W 15 W
Manufacturing TSMC Intel
Fabrication Process 4 nm 10 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 No

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1 1.4a

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