AMD Radeon 840M vs Intel Arc 130T

VS
AMD Radeon 840M
Krackan Point
Intel Arc 130T
Arrow Lake iGPU

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 840M with 4 pipelines and 256 shaders against the Intel Arc 130T that utilizes 7 pipelines and 896 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
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 Arc 130T over Radeon 840M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 840M
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the Intel Arc 130T
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.2x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2.6x higher maximum theoretical performance (3.9 vs 1.5 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 80% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 18 vs 10 FPS
  • Achieves 2.6x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (36K vs 14K)
  • Has 3.5x more shading units (896 vs 256)
  • Features 112 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
25
14
12
-
46
26
21
10
The Witcher 3
11
12
-
-
37
29
22
10
Counter-Strike 2
27
20
14
-
40
28
22
-
Far Cry 6
21
17
12
-
34
28
23
11
Hogwarts Legacy
11
-
-
-
19
11
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
22
19
14
9
29
27
20
11
Ghost of Tsushima
13
10
-
-
22
14
11
-
Cyberpunk 2077
10
10
-
-
21
16
11
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
16
18
11
-
34
32
20
13
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 17 31
1080p Ultra 14 23
1440p Ultra 10 18
4K Ultra - 9
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
Arc 130T +120%
2904
Time Spy 1699 3409
Solar Bay 6960 12704
Port Royal 553 1902
Fire Strike 5303 8001
Wild Life Extreme 2671 5990
Night Raid 22563 36940
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
14025
Arc 130T +159%
36282
Background Blur 31.8 img/sec 70.9 img/sec
Face Detection 16.8 img/sec 34.9 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.46 Gpixels/sec 1.13 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.58 Gpixels/sec 1.42 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.42 Gpixels/sec 1.96 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.18 Gpixels/sec 0.45 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 52.5 Gpixels/sec 131.5 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 2048.6 FPS 7360.9 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
Arc 130T +66%
6114
G2D Mark 870 791
DirectX 11 32 FPS 42 FPS
DirectX 12 17 FPS 27 FPS
GPU Compute 1697 Ops/s 2620 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 1020 & 360 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
120.67
Arc 130T +401%
604.09
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 12 & 10 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
Arc 130T +49%
7262
GB6 ML Half Precision
Arc 130T +64%
9964
GB6 ML Quantized
Arc 130T +27%
5008
Image Classification (SP) 1988 3978
Image Segmentation (HP) 2184 8374
Image Super Resolution (Q) 4788 5792
Face Detection (HP) 6857 13023
Pose Estimation (Q) 17396 16149
Text Classification (SP) 1628 1356
Machine Translation (HP) 2053 2594
Object Detection (SP) 1825 4754
Depth Estimation (Q) 8471 12040
Style Transfer (SP) 31032 51653
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 840M and Intel Arc 130T

General

Vendor Amd Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 7, 2025 January 6, 2025
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Xe+
GPU Codename Krackan Point Arrow Lake iGPU
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc 130T - Radeon 840M
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 or above - Intel Core Ultra 5 225H or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen AI 7 345
- AMD Ryzen AI 5 430
- AMD Ryzen AI 7 445
- AMD Ryzen AI 5 435
- AMD Ryzen AI 5 440
- AMD Ryzen AI 5 340
- Intel Core Ultra 5 225H
Laptop GPU ranking (108th and 100th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 2900 MHz 2200 MHz
Shading Units 256 896
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 16 56
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 28
Compute Units (Pipelines) 4 7
Tensor Cores No 112
Ray-tracing Cores 4 7
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster -
L2 Cache 1MB shared 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 23 GPixel/s 62 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 46 GTexel/s 123 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
1.5 TFLOPS
Arc 130T +160%
3.9 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 15 W 35 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Die Size 195 mm² -
Max. Temperature 100°C 110°C

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
ECC No -

API

DirectX 12 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 2.1 2.1

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