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AMD Radeon 8040S vs Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores)

Radeon 8040S
VS
Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores)
AMD Radeon 8040S
Strix Halo
Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores)

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 8040S with 16 pipelines and 1024 shaders against the 1 year and 1 month older Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores) that utilizes 64 pipelines and 512 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
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of Arc iGPU (4-Cores) over Radeon 8040S
Reasons to consider the Radeon 8040S
  • 2.9x higher maximum theoretical performance (5.7 vs 2 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Achieves 2.2x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (35K vs 16K)
  • Has 2x more shading units (1024 vs 512)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
Radeon 8040S
vs
Arc iGPU (4-Cores)

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
76
40
31
17
 -
The Witcher 3
53
44
26
14
 -
Counter-Strike 2
84
60
39
15
 -
Far Cry 6
61
49
35
16
 -
Hogwarts Legacy
33
26
20
10
 -
CoD: Modern Warfare III
49
41
31
15
 -
Ghost of Tsushima
33
25
18
10
 -
Cyberpunk 2077
32
29
17
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
65
55
32
17
 -
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 54 -
1080p Ultra 41 -
1440p Ultra 28 -
4K Ultra 13 -
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
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Radeon 8040S +120%
35976
Arc iGPU (4-Cores)
16321
Background Blur 106.8 img/sec 37.6 img/sec
Face Detection 43.8 img/sec 17.2 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.12 Gpixels/sec 0.3 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.17 Gpixels/sec 0.63 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.07 Gpixels/sec 0.94 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.5 Gpixels/sec 0.22 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 163 Gpixels/sec 60 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 5820.4 FPS 3695.9 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 1052 -
DirectX 11 80 FPS -
DirectX 12 47 FPS -
GPU Compute 5138 Ops/s -
Sources: PassMark [5] – 6 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9] – 1 samples
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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
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) - 2902
Image Segmentation (HP) - 5473
Image Super Resolution (Q) - 2967
Face Detection (HP) - 6068
Pose Estimation (Q) - 8220
Text Classification (SP) - 609
Machine Translation (HP) - 1146
Object Detection (SP) - 2766
Depth Estimation (Q) - 6405
Style Transfer (SP) - 26796
Framework - ONNX
Backend - DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 8040S and Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores)

General

Vendor Amd Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 7, 2025 December 14, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Xe LPG
GPU Codename Strix Halo -
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop - Radeon 740M
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro 380 or above - Intel Core Ultra 5 125U or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 480
- AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro 380		 - Intel Core Ultra 7 251HX
- Intel Core Ultra 7 270HX Plus
- Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus
- Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus
- Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus
- Intel Core Ultra 5 225U
- Intel Core Ultra 5 235U
- Intel Core Ultra 7 255U
- and 12 more
Laptop GPU ranking (76th and 97th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1295 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 2800 MHz 1750-2000 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 1024 512
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64 32
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 16
Compute Units (Pipelines) 16 64
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores 16 4
L1 Cache - 768KB shared
L2 Cache 2MB shared -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 90 GPixel/s 28-32 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 179 GTexel/s 56-64 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 8040S +185%
5.7 TFLOPS
Arc iGPU (4-Cores)
1.8-2 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 Ring Bus
TGP 55 W 14 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Die Size 308 mm² -
Max. Temperature 100°C -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
ECC No -

API

DirectX 12.2 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA No -
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1a 2.1

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