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AMD Radeon 840M vs Nvidia N1 (16SM)

Radeon 840M
VS
Nvidia N1 (16SM)
AMD Radeon 840M
Krackan Point
Nvidia N1 (16SM)
GB20B

We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Radeon 840M with 4 pipelines and 256 shaders against the 1 year and 5 months newer Nvidia N1 (16SM) that utilizes 16 pipelines and 2048 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
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
Scores marked with a red asterisk (**) represent initial estimates from early testing.

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of N1 (16SM) over Radeon 840M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 840M
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the Nvidia N1 (16SM)
  • 6.6x higher maximum theoretical performance (9.9 vs 1.5 TFLOPS)
  • Has 8x more shading units (2048 vs 256)
  • Features 64 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
Radeon 840M
vs
N1 (16SM)

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
25
14
12
-
-
The Witcher 3
11
12
-
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
27
20
14
-
-
Far Cry 6
21
17
12
-
-
Hogwarts Legacy
11
-
-
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
22
19
14
9
 -
Ghost of Tsushima
13
10
-
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077
10
10
-
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
16
18
11
-
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 17 -
1080p Ultra 14 -
1440p Ultra 10 -
4K Ultra - -
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
Time Spy 1699 -
Solar Bay 6960 -
Port Royal 553 -
Fire Strike 5303 -
Wild Life Extreme 2671 -
Night Raid 22563 -
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 GPU Compute

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 31.8 img/sec -
Face Detection 16.8 img/sec -
Horizon Detection 0.46 Gpixels/sec -
Edge Detection 0.58 Gpixels/sec -
Gaussian Blur 0.42 Gpixels/sec -
Feature Matching 0.18 Gpixels/sec -
Stereo Matching 52.5 Gpixels/sec -
Particle Physics 2048.6 FPS -
API OpenCL -
Sources: Geekbench [3]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark 870 -
DirectX 11 32 FPS -
DirectX 12 17 FPS -
GPU Compute 1697 Ops/s -
Sources: PassMark [5] – 1020 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Radeon 840M
120.67
N1 (16SM)
n/a
Sources: Blender [9] – 12 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) 1988 -
Image Segmentation (HP) 2184 -
Image Super Resolution (Q) 4788 -
Face Detection (HP) 6857 -
Pose Estimation (Q) 17396 -
Text Classification (SP) 1628 -
Machine Translation (HP) 2053 -
Object Detection (SP) 1825 -
Depth Estimation (Q) 8471 -
Style Transfer (SP) 31032 -
Framework ONNX -
Backend DirectML -
Sources: Geekbench [9]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 840M and Nvidia N1 (16SM)

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Integrated Discrete
Released January 7, 2025 June 1, 2026
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Professional
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Blackwell (N1x)
GPU Codename Krackan Point GB20B
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc 130T -
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 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		 -
Laptop GPU ranking (108th and 18th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 1665 MHz
Boost Clock 2900 MHz 2418 MHz
Shading Units 256 2048
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 16 128
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 24
Compute Units (Pipelines) 4 16
Tensor Cores No 64
Ray-tracing Cores 4 16
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 1MB shared 50MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 23 GPixel/s 58 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 46 GTexel/s 310 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 840M
1.5 TFLOPS
N1 (16SM) +560%
9.9 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 5.0 x16
TGP 15 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
Bus - 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
Radeon 840M
n/a
N1 (16SM)
273.2 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 -
Vulkan 1.4 -
OpenGL 4.6 -
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA No 12.1
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No -
DisplayPort 2.1 -

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