AMD Radeon 740M vs Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU)

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 740M with 4 pipelines and 256 shaders against the 2 years and 5 months older Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU) that utilizes 48 pipelines and 384 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 G4 (48 EU) over Radeon 740M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 740M
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.5x) 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
  • 27% higher maximum theoretical performance (1.4 vs 1.1 TFLOPS)
  • Ray-tracing support with 4 dedicated RT cores
  • Achieves 56% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (12K vs 8K)
Reasons to consider the Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU)
  • Has 50% more shading units (384 vs 256)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
25
13
12
-
12
-
-
-
The Witcher 3
10
11
-
-
-
-
-
-
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
Time Spy 1571 741
Solar Bay 5514 -
Port Royal 722 -
Fire Strike 4931 2345
Wild Life Extreme 3115 1606
Night Raid 16642 10085
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 18.4 img/sec
Face Detection 15.3 img/sec 10.7 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.44 Gpixels/sec 0.3 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.56 Gpixels/sec 0.47 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.47 Gpixels/sec 0.3 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.17 Gpixels/sec 0.1 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 47 Gpixels/sec 21.5 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1815.3 FPS 1269.5 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

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 893
Image Segmentation (HP) 2046 1369
Image Super Resolution (Q) 5074 1052
Face Detection (HP) 5435 2087
Pose Estimation (Q) 16992 3981
Text Classification (SP) 1469 807
Machine Translation (HP) 1922 895
Object Detection (SP) 1516 944
Depth Estimation (Q) 7572 2678
Style Transfer (SP) 30182 13752
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 740M and Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU)

General

Vendor Amd Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 4, 2023 August 15, 2020
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 3.0 Generation 12.1
GPU Codename Phoenix Tiger Lake GT2
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores) -
Successor - Radeon 840M -
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 8540U 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 5 210H
- Intel Core Ultra 5 235HX
- Intel Core Ultra 5 245HX
- Intel Processor U300
- Intel Core i5 13420H
- Intel Core i5 12450H
- Intel Core i3 1125G4
- Intel Pentium Gold 7505
- and 1 more
Laptop GPU ranking (116th and 131st place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 800 MHz 400 MHz
Boost Clock 2500-2800 MHz (configurable) 800-1400 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 256 384
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 16 24
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 12
Compute Units (Pipelines) 4 48
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 10-17 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 40-45 GTexel/s 19-34 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
1.3-1.4 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 146 mm²
Transistor Count 25.4 billion -
Transistor Density 142.7 MTr/mm² -
Max. Temperature 95°C -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Memory Size - System RAM Dependent
Memory Clock - System RAM Dependent
Effective Memory Speed - System RAM Dependent
ECC No No

API

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

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