Radeon 740M vs Radeon 660M

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 740M with 4 pipelines and 256 shaders against the 1 year and 1 month older Radeon 660M that utilizes 6 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 Radeon 660M over Radeon 740M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 740M
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the Radeon 660M
  • 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
-
27
13
11
-
The Witcher 3
10
11
-
-
9
12
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
28
19
13
-
28
17
13
-
Far Cry 6
20
18
11
-
20
16
9
-
Hogwarts Legacy
12
9
-
-
10
-
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
19
19
14
9
18
15
13
-
Ghost of Tsushima
12
9
-
-
13
-
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077
10
9
-
-
9
9
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
18
17
12
-
17
14
11
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 17 17
1080p Ultra 14 12
1440p Ultra 10 9
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
1388
Time Spy 1571 1514
Solar Bay 5514 6396
Port Royal 722 586
Fire Strike 4931 4879
Wild Life Extreme 3115 2676
Night Raid 16642 18958
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
12774
14065
Background Blur 31.6 img/sec 36 img/sec
Face Detection 15.3 img/sec 16.4 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.44 Gpixels/sec 0.48 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.56 Gpixels/sec 0.65 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.47 Gpixels/sec 0.53 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.17 Gpixels/sec 0.18 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 47 Gpixels/sec 46.5 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1815.3 FPS 2056.5 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
3044
G2D Mark 778 654
DirectX 11 24 FPS 47 FPS
DirectX 12 16 FPS 23 FPS
GPU Compute 1628 Ops/s 1321 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 2190 & 5 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
102.53
92.56
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 12 & 4 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
4462
GB6 ML Half Precision
5298
GB6 ML Quantized
3419
Image Classification (SP) 1608 1465
Image Segmentation (HP) 2046 1706
Image Super Resolution (Q) 5074 4266
Face Detection (HP) 5435 5115
Pose Estimation (Q) 16992 12992
Text Classification (SP) 1469 1116
Machine Translation (HP) 1922 1859
Object Detection (SP) 1516 1574
Depth Estimation (Q) 7572 6538
Style Transfer (SP) 30182 26656
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 740M and Radeon 660M

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 4, 2023 January 1, 2022
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 3.0 RDNA 2.0
GPU Codename Phoenix Rembrandt
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores) -
Successor - Radeon 840M - Radeon 8040S
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 8540U or above - AMD Ryzen 5 6600H 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
- AMD Ryzen 5 150
- AMD Ryzen 5 7535U
- AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS
- AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 6650U
- AMD Ryzen 5 6600U
- AMD Ryzen 5 6600H
Laptop GPU ranking (115th and 116th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 800 MHz 400 MHz
Boost Clock 2500-2800 MHz (configurable) 1800-1900 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 256 384
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 16 24
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 16
Compute Units (Pipelines) 4 6
Ray-tracing Cores 4 6
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 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 29-30 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 40-45 GTexel/s 43-46 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
1.3-1.4 TFLOPS
1.4-1.5 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 15 W 15 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 6 nm
Die Size 178 mm² 208 mm²
Transistor Count 25.4 billion 13.1 billion
Transistor Density 142.7 MTr/mm² 62.98 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 2.0
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1 -

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