AMD Radeon 8040S vs Intel Arc 140T
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AMD Radeon 8040S
Strix Halo
Intel Arc 140T
Arrow Lake iGPU
We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 8040S with 16 pipelines and 1024 shaders against the Intel Arc 140T that utilizes 8 pipelines and 1024 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
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
Reasons to consider the Radeon 8040S
- Performs significantly better (up to 41%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Shows 56% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 28 vs 18 FPS
- Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
- 19% higher maximum theoretical performance (5.7 vs 4.8 TFLOPS)
Reasons to consider the Intel Arc 140T
- Features 128 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 76 40 31 17 |
53 28 21 12 |
| The Witcher 3 | 53 44 26 14 |
42 33 23 12 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 84 60 39 15 |
48 33 22 10 |
| Far Cry 6 | 61 49 35 16 |
37 35 24 11 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 33 26 20 10 |
19 14 - - |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 49 41 31 15 |
31 29 21 11 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 33 25 18 10 |
21 18 13 - |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 32 29 17 - |
23 19 11 - |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 65 55 32 17 |
38 36 22 12 |
| 1080p High | 54 | 35 |
| 1080p Ultra | 41 | 27 |
| 1440p Ultra | 28 | 18 |
| 4K Ultra | 13 | 10 |
| Margin of Error | High | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | - | 3769 |
| Solar Bay | - | 14421 |
| Port Royal | - | 1966 |
| Fire Strike | - | 8568 |
| Wild Life Extreme | - | 6618 |
| Night Raid | - | 38478 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 106.8 img/sec | 90 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 43.8 img/sec | 39.5 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 1.12 Gpixels/sec | 1.21 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 1.17 Gpixels/sec | 1.52 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 1.07 Gpixels/sec | 2.41 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.5 Gpixels/sec | 0.51 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 163 Gpixels/sec | 161.8 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 5820.4 FPS | 9155.9 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1052 | 833 |
| DirectX 11 | 80 FPS | 47 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 47 FPS | 30 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 5138 Ops/s | 2892 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon 8040S
No benchmark results yet
Intel Arc 140T
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-04-16 -> Lello75 | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 42034 |
| 📘 2025-09-19 (JacoIsHere) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 42182 |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | - | 5224 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | - | 10501 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | - | 6436 |
| Face Detection (HP) | - | 15277 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | - | 19008 |
| Text Classification (SP) | - | 1566 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | - | 2969 |
| Object Detection (SP) | - | 6172 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | - | 14526 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | - | 62049 |
| Framework | - | ONNX |
| Backend | - | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon 8040S and Intel Arc 140TGeneral
| Vendor | Amd | Intel |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | January 7, 2025 | January 6, 2025 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Generic | Generic |
| Segment | Mid-range | Entry-level |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.5 | Xe+ |
| GPU Codename | Strix Halo | Arrow Lake iGPU |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop | - Radeon 860M |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro 380 or above | - Intel Core Ultra 5 235H or above |
| Used in CPUs | - AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 480 - AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro 380 |
- Intel Core Ultra 5 235H - Intel Core Ultra 7 255H - Intel Core Ultra 7 265H - Intel Core Ultra 9 285H |
Laptop GPU ranking (77th and 95th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1295 MHz | 300 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2800 MHz | 2250-2350 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 1024 | 1024 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 64 | 64 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 32 | 32 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 16 | 8 |
| Tensor Cores | No | 128 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 16 | 8 |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | 4MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 90 GPixel/s | 72-75 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 179 GTexel/s | 144-150 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x8 |
| TGP | 55 W | 35 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 308 mm² | - |
| Max. Temperature | 100°C | 110°C |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | System Shared |
| ECC | No | - |
API
| DirectX | 12.2 | 12.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | No | No |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | No |
| DisplayPort | 2.1a | 2.1 |
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