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Radeon 740M vs Radeon 680M

Radeon 740M
VS
Radeon 680M
AMD Radeon 740M
Phoenix
AMD Radeon 680M
Rembrandt

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 740M with 4 pipelines and 256 shaders against the 1 year and 1 month older Radeon 680M that utilizes 12 pipelines and 768 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 Radeon 680M over Radeon 740M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 740M
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the Radeon 680M
  • Performs significantly better (up to 54%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2.6x higher maximum theoretical performance (3.7 vs 1.4 TFLOPS)
  • Achieves 2.2x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (28K vs 12K)
  • Has 3x more shading units (768 vs 256)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
Radeon 740M
vs
Radeon 680M

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
Radeon 740M
1388
Radeon 680M +54%
2140
Time Spy 1571 2327
Solar Bay 5514 9712
Port Royal 722 1008
Fire Strike 4931 6903
Wild Life Extreme 3115 4163
Night Raid 16642 27534
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Radeon 740M
12774
Radeon 680M +124%
28675
Background Blur 31.6 img/sec 73.8 img/sec
Face Detection 15.3 img/sec 30.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.44 Gpixels/sec 0.93 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.56 Gpixels/sec 1.17 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.47 Gpixels/sec 1.17 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.17 Gpixels/sec 0.37 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 47 Gpixels/sec 105 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1815.3 FPS 4640 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
Radeon 740M
2941
Radeon 680M +51%
4444
G2D Mark 778 723
DirectX 11 24 FPS 40 FPS
DirectX 12 16 FPS 21 FPS
GPU Compute 1628 Ops/s 2006 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 2190 & 176 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Radeon 740M
102.53
Radeon 680M +133%
238.39
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 12 & 12 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon 740M
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Radeon 680M
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2025-12-08 (Wahyu)Geekbench 6 OpenCL26880
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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
Radeon 740M
4462
Radeon 680M +31%
5834
GB6 ML Half Precision
Radeon 740M
5298
Radeon 680M +55%
8202
GB6 ML Quantized
Radeon 740M
3419
Radeon 680M +22%
4169
Image Classification (SP) 1608 1976
Image Segmentation (HP) 2046 3138
Image Super Resolution (Q) 5074 6693
Face Detection (HP) 5435 7213
Pose Estimation (Q) 16992 21849
Text Classification (SP) 1469 1497
Machine Translation (HP) 1922 2579
Object Detection (SP) 1516 2154
Depth Estimation (Q) 7572 9635
Style Transfer (SP) 30182 56269
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 740M and Radeon 680M

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) - Radeon RX Vega 8
Successor - Radeon 840M - Radeon 8050S
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 8540U or above - AMD Ryzen 7 6800H 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 7 170
- AMD Ryzen 7 7735U
- AMD Ryzen 7 7736U
- AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS
- AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 6850U
- AMD Ryzen 7 6800U​
- AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS
- AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS
- and 2 more
Laptop GPU ranking (115th and 103rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 800 MHz 400 MHz
Boost Clock 2500-2800 MHz (configurable) 2200-2400 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 256 768
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 16 48
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 4 12
Ray-tracing Cores 4 12
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 20-22 GPixel/s 70-77 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 40-45 GTexel/s 106-115 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 740M
1.3-1.4 TFLOPS
Radeon 680M +164%
3.4-3.7 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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4 (36.4%)
7 (63.6%)
Total votes: 11

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