AMD Radeon 8040S vs Intel UHD Graphics 770
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AMD Radeon 8040S
Strix Halo
Intel UHD Graphics 770
Alder Lake GT1
We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 8040S with 16 pipelines and 1024 shaders against the 3 years and 3 months older Intel UHD Graphics 770 that utilizes 32 pipelines and 256 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 7.5x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 7.1x higher maximum theoretical performance (5.7 vs 0.8 TFLOPS)
- Shows 5.6x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 28 vs 5 FPS
- Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
- Ray-tracing support with 16 dedicated RT cores
- Achieves 4.4x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (35K vs 8K)
- Has 4x more shading units (1024 vs 256)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 76 40 31 17 |
16 - - - |
| The Witcher 3 | 53 44 26 14 |
- - - - |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 84 60 39 15 |
14 10 - - |
| Far Cry 6 | 61 49 35 16 |
10 - - - |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 33 26 20 10 |
- |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 49 41 31 15 |
- - - - |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 33 25 18 10 |
9 - - - |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 32 29 17 - |
- |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 65 55 32 17 |
- - - - |
| 1080p High | 54 | 9 |
| 1080p Ultra | 41 | - |
| 1440p Ultra | 28 | - |
| 4K Ultra | 13 | - |
| Margin of Error | High | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | - | 809 |
| Fire Strike | - | 2899 |
| Wild Life Extreme | - | 1960 |
| Night Raid | - | 11888 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 106.8 img/sec | 17.9 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 43.8 img/sec | 11.6 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 1.12 Gpixels/sec | 0.32 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 1.17 Gpixels/sec | 0.51 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 1.07 Gpixels/sec | 0.31 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.5 Gpixels/sec | 0.1 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 163 Gpixels/sec | 20.2 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 5820.4 FPS | 1156.4 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1052 | 551 |
| DirectX 11 | 80 FPS | 11 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 47 FPS | 9 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 5138 Ops/s | 816 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon 8040S and Intel UHD Graphics 770General
| Vendor | Amd | Intel |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | January 7, 2025 | November 4, 2021 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Generic | Generic |
| Segment | Mid-range | Entry-level |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.5 | Generation 12.2 |
| GPU Codename | Strix Halo | Alder Lake GT1 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop | - |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro 380 or above | - Intel Core i5 12500 or above |
| Used in CPUs | - AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 480 - AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro 380 |
- Intel Core i7 14700HX - Intel Core i7 14650HX - Intel Core i5 14500HX - Intel Core i9 14900KS - Intel Core i9 14900 - Intel Core i7 14700 - Intel Core i5 14600 - Intel Core i5 14500 - and 24 more |
Laptop GPU ranking (76th and 135th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1295 MHz | 300 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2800 MHz | 1350-1650 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 1024 | 256 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 64 | 16 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 32 | 8 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 16 | 32 |
| Tensor Cores | No | No |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 16 | No |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | - |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 90 GPixel/s | 11-13 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 179 GTexel/s | 22-26 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | Ring Bus |
| TGP | 55 W | 15 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Intel |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 10 nm |
| Die Size | 308 mm² | - |
| Max. Temperature | 100°C | 100°C |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | System Shared |
| ECC | No | - |
API
| DirectX | 12.2 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | 1.2 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | No | - |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | No |
| DLSS | No | No |
| DisplayPort | 2.1a | 1.4a |
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