Radeon 840M vs Radeon 740M

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 840M with 4 pipelines and 256 shaders against the 2 years and 1 month older Radeon 740M that utilizes 4 pipelines and 256 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

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
25
14
12
-
25
13
12
-
The Witcher 3
11
12
-
-
10
11
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
27
20
14
-
28
19
13
-
Far Cry 6
21
17
12
-
20
18
11
-
Hogwarts Legacy
11
-
-
-
12
9
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
22
19
14
9
19
19
14
9
Ghost of Tsushima
13
10
-
-
12
9
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077
10
10
-
-
10
9
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
16
18
11
-
18
17
12
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 17 17
1080p Ultra 14 14
1440p Ultra 10 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
1388
Time Spy 1699 1571
Solar Bay 6960 5514
Port Royal 553 722
Fire Strike 5303 4931
Wild Life Extreme 2671 3115
Night Raid 22563 16642
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
14025
12774
Background Blur 31.8 img/sec 31.6 img/sec
Face Detection 16.8 img/sec 15.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.46 Gpixels/sec 0.44 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.58 Gpixels/sec 0.56 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.42 Gpixels/sec 0.47 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.18 Gpixels/sec 0.17 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 52.5 Gpixels/sec 47 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 2048.6 FPS 1815.3 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
3674
G2D Mark 870 778
DirectX 11 32 FPS 24 FPS
DirectX 12 17 FPS 16 FPS
GPU Compute 1697 Ops/s 1628 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 1020 & 2190 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
120.67
102.53
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 12 & 12 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
4884
GB6 ML Half Precision
6067
GB6 ML Quantized
3946
Image Classification (SP) 1988 1608
Image Segmentation (HP) 2184 2046
Image Super Resolution (Q) 4788 5074
Face Detection (HP) 6857 5435
Pose Estimation (Q) 17396 16992
Text Classification (SP) 1628 1469
Machine Translation (HP) 2053 1922
Object Detection (SP) 1825 1516
Depth Estimation (Q) 8471 7572
Style Transfer (SP) 31032 30182
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 840M and Radeon 740M

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 7, 2025 January 4, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 3.5 RDNA 3.0
GPU Codename Krackan Point Phoenix
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc 130T - Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores)
Successor - - Radeon 840M
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 or above - AMD Ryzen 5 8540U 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
- AMD Ryzen 7 7445HS
- AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 215
- AMD Ryzen 3 210
- AMD Ryzen 5 220
- AMD Ryzen Z1
- AMD Ryzen 3 8300G
- AMD Ryzen 5 8500G
- AMD Ryzen 5 8540U
- and 2 more
Laptop GPU ranking (108th and 116th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 800 MHz
Boost Clock 2900 MHz 2500-2800 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 256 256
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 16 16
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 8
Compute Units (Pipelines) 4 4
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores 4 4
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 1MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 23 GPixel/s 20-22 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 46 GTexel/s 40-45 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
1.5 TFLOPS
1.3-1.4 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 15 W 15 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 4 nm
Die Size 195 mm² 178 mm²
Transistor Count - 25.4 billion
Transistor Density - 142.7 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature 100°C 95°C

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
ECC No No

API

DirectX 12 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 2.1 2.1

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