AMD Radeon 840M vs Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores)
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AMD Radeon 840M
Krackan Point
We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 840M with 4 pipelines and 256 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.
Review
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
Reasons to consider the Radeon 840M
- Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores)
- 33% higher maximum theoretical performance (2 vs 1.5 TFLOPS)
- Has 2x more shading units (512 vs 256)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 25 14 12 - |
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| The Witcher 3 | 11 12 - - |
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| Counter-Strike 2 | 27 20 14 - |
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| Far Cry 6 | 21 17 12 - |
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| Hogwarts Legacy | 11 - - - |
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| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 22 19 14 9 |
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| Ghost of Tsushima | 13 10 - - |
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| Cyberpunk 2077 | 10 10 - - |
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| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 16 18 11 - |
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| 1080p High | 17 | - |
| 1080p Ultra | 14 | - |
| 1440p Ultra | 10 | - |
| 4K Ultra | - | - |
| Margin of Error | High | High |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 1699 | - |
| Solar Bay | 6960 | - |
| Port Royal | 553 | - |
| Fire Strike | 5303 | - |
| Wild Life Extreme | 2671 | - |
| Night Raid | 22563 | - |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 31.8 img/sec | 37.6 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 16.8 img/sec | 17.2 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 0.46 Gpixels/sec | 0.3 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 0.58 Gpixels/sec | 0.63 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 0.42 Gpixels/sec | 0.94 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.18 Gpixels/sec | 0.22 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 52.5 Gpixels/sec | 60 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 2048.6 FPS | 3695.9 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 870 | - |
| DirectX 11 | 32 FPS | - |
| DirectX 12 | 17 FPS | - |
| GPU Compute | 1697 Ops/s | - |
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) | 1988 | 2902 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 2184 | 5473 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 4788 | 2967 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 6857 | 6068 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 17396 | 8220 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 1628 | 609 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 2053 | 1146 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 1825 | 2766 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 8471 | 6405 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 31032 | 26796 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon 840M 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 | Entry-level | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.5 | Xe LPG |
| GPU Codename | Krackan Point | - |
| Rival Equivalent | - Intel Arc 130T | - Radeon 740M |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 or above | - Intel Core Ultra 5 125U 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 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 (108th and 98th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 400 MHz | 300 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2900 MHz | 1750-2000 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 256 | 512 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 16 | 32 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 8 | 16 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 4 | 64 |
| Tensor Cores | No | - |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 4 | 4 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 768KB shared |
| L2 Cache | 1MB shared | - |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 23 GPixel/s | 28-32 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 46 GTexel/s | 56-64 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | Ring Bus |
| TGP | 15 W | 14 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 195 mm² | - |
| Max. Temperature | 100°C | - |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | System Shared |
| ECC | No | - |
API
| DirectX | 12 | 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 | 2.1 | 2.1 |
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