AMD Radeon 740M vs Intel UHD Graphics 730

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 740M with 4 pipelines and 256 shaders against the 2 years older Intel UHD Graphics 730 that utilizes 24 pipelines and 192 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
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of UHD Graphics 730 over Radeon 740M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 740M
  • Performs significantly better (up to 3.1x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Shows 2.5x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 10 vs 4 FPS
  • 2.3x higher maximum theoretical performance (1.4 vs 0.6 TFLOPS)
  • Ray-tracing support with 4 dedicated RT cores
  • Achieves 93% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (12K vs 6K)
  • Has 33% more shading units (256 vs 192)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
25
13
12
-
11
-
-
-
The Witcher 3
10
11
-
-
9
-
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
28
19
13
-
13
9
-
-
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
Radeon 740M +208%
1388
Time Spy 1571 608
Solar Bay 5514 -
Port Royal 722 -
Fire Strike 4931 2250
Wild Life Extreme 3115 1516
Night Raid 16642 8988
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
12774
Background Blur 31.6 img/sec 13.7 img/sec
Face Detection 15.3 img/sec 8.19 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.44 Gpixels/sec 0.26 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.56 Gpixels/sec 0.38 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.47 Gpixels/sec 0.25 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.17 Gpixels/sec 0.09 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 47 Gpixels/sec 19.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1815.3 FPS 887.2 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
2941
G2D Mark 778 426
DirectX 11 24 FPS 10 FPS
DirectX 12 16 FPS 7 FPS
GPU Compute 1628 Ops/s 628 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 2190 & 9764 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 -
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 -
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 740M and Intel UHD Graphics 730

General

Vendor Amd Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 4, 2023 January 1, 2021
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 3.0 Generation 12.1
GPU Codename Phoenix Rocket Lake GT1
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores) -
Successor - Radeon 840M -
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 8540U or above - Intel Core i5 11400 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 Processor N250
- Intel Processor N150
- Intel Core i5 14400
- Intel Core i3 14100
- Intel Core i3 13100
- Intel Core i5 13400
- Intel Core i3 12100
- Intel Core i5 12400
- and 1 more
Laptop GPU ranking (122nd and 149th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 800 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 2500-2800 MHz (configurable) 900-1550 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 256 192
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 16 48
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 24
Compute Units (Pipelines) 4 24
Tensor Cores - No
Ray-tracing Cores 4 No
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster -
L2 Cache 2MB shared -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 20-22 GPixel/s 22-37 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 40-45 GTexel/s 43-74 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 740M +133%
1.3-1.4 TFLOPS
0.3-0.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 Ring Bus
TGP 15 W 15 W
Manufacturing TSMC -
Fabrication Process 4 nm 14 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 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1 -

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