Radeon 8040S vs Radeon 760M

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 8040S with 16 pipelines and 1024 shaders against the 2 years and 1 month older Radeon 760M that utilizes 8 pipelines and 512 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
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of Radeon 760M over Radeon 8040S
Reasons to consider the Radeon 8040S
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.2x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 2.2x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 28 vs 13 FPS
  • 2x higher maximum theoretical performance (5.7 vs 2.9 TFLOPS)
  • Achieves 59% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (35K vs 22K)
  • Has 2x more shading units (1024 vs 512)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
76
40
31
17
41
21
17
9
The Witcher 3
53
44
26
14
19
19
9
-
Counter-Strike 2
84
60
39
15
35
23
19
-
Far Cry 6
61
49
35
16
32
24
19
-
Hogwarts Legacy
33
26
20
10
15
12
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
49
41
31
15
28
24
17
10
Ghost of Tsushima
33
25
18
10
19
11
9
-
Cyberpunk 2077
32
29
17
-
14
16
9
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
65
55
32
17
26
23
14
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 54 25
1080p Ultra 41 19
1440p Ultra 28 13
4K Ultra 13 -
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
Radeon 8040S +119%
4502
Time Spy - 2372
Solar Bay - 9378
Port Royal - 975
Fire Strike - 7074
Wild Life Extreme - 4630
Night Raid - 29486
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
35976
22589
Background Blur 106.8 img/sec 57.8 img/sec
Face Detection 43.8 img/sec 28.7 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.12 Gpixels/sec 0.8 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.17 Gpixels/sec 1 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.07 Gpixels/sec 0.82 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.5 Gpixels/sec 0.29 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 163 Gpixels/sec 85.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 5820.4 FPS 2844.5 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
10578
G2D Mark 1052 890
DirectX 11 80 FPS 52 FPS
DirectX 12 47 FPS 25 FPS
GPU Compute 5138 Ops/s 2838 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 6 & 2585 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
376.14
237.24
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 1 & 37 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
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) - 3449
Image Segmentation (HP) - 4098
Image Super Resolution (Q) - 7937
Face Detection (HP) - 12168
Pose Estimation (Q) - 29915
Text Classification (SP) - 2571
Machine Translation (HP) - 3852
Object Detection (SP) - 2687
Depth Estimation (Q) - 14163
Style Transfer (SP) - 59966
Framework - ONNX
Backend - DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 8040S and Radeon 760M

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 7, 2025 January 4, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 3.5 RDNA 3.0
GPU Codename Strix Halo Phoenix
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop - Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores)
Successor - - Radeon 8040S
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro 380 or above - AMD Ryzen 5 7640U or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 480
- AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro 380
- AMD Ryzen 5 230
- AMD Ryzen 5 240
- AMD Ryzen 5 8600G
- AMD Ryzen 5 8645HS
- AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS
- AMD Ryzen 5 8640U
- AMD Ryzen 5 7640U
- AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS
Laptop GPU ranking (77th and 112th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1295 MHz 800 MHz
Boost Clock 2800 MHz 2600-2800 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 1024 512
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64 32
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 16
Compute Units (Pipelines) 16 8
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores 16 6
L1 Cache - 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 90 GPixel/s 42-45 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 179 GTexel/s 83-90 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
5.7 TFLOPS
2.7-2.9 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 55 W 15 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 4 nm
Die Size 308 mm² 178 mm²
Transistor Count - 25.4 billion
Transistor Density - 142.7 MTr/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 2.1
CUDA No -
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1a 2.1

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