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Radeon 840M vs Radeon 780M

Radeon 840M
VS
Radeon 780M
AMD Radeon 840M
Krackan Point
AMD Radeon 780M
Phoenix

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 840M with 4 pipelines and 256 shaders against the 2 years and 1 month older Radeon 780M that utilizes 12 pipelines and 768 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

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of Radeon 780M over Radeon 840M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 780M
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2.9x higher maximum theoretical performance (4.3 vs 1.5 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 60% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 16 vs 10 FPS
  • Achieves 2.3x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (32K vs 14K)
  • Has 3x more shading units (768 vs 256)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
Radeon 840M
vs
Radeon 780M

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
25
14
12
-
52
26
22
11
The Witcher 3
11
12
-
-
26
26
13
-
Counter-Strike 2
27
20
14
-
44
31
21
9
Far Cry 6
21
17
12
-
39
29
21
10
Hogwarts Legacy
11
-
-
-
22
15
11
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
22
19
14
9
34
29
19
12
Ghost of Tsushima
13
10
-
-
21
15
10
-
Cyberpunk 2077
10
10
-
-
19
20
10
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
16
18
11
-
36
31
20
9
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 17 33
1080p Ultra 14 25
1440p Ultra 10 16
4K Ultra - -
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 840M
1319
Radeon 780M +102%
2661
Time Spy 1699 2787
Solar Bay 6960 11525
Port Royal 553 1579
Fire Strike 5303 7885
Wild Life Extreme 2671 5305
Night Raid 22563 33367
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Radeon 840M
14025
Radeon 780M +133%
32713
Background Blur 31.8 img/sec 86.4 img/sec
Face Detection 16.8 img/sec 35.8 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.46 Gpixels/sec 1.03 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.58 Gpixels/sec 1.36 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.42 Gpixels/sec 1.41 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.18 Gpixels/sec 0.41 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 52.5 Gpixels/sec 132.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 2048.6 FPS 4470.7 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
Radeon 840M
3674
Radeon 780M +84%
6762
G2D Mark 870 885
DirectX 11 32 FPS 65 FPS
DirectX 12 17 FPS 30 FPS
GPU Compute 1697 Ops/s 3577 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 1020 & 12072 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Radeon 840M
120.67
Radeon 780M +117%
262.43
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 12 & 182 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon 840M
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Radeon 780M
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-10-01 -> RennsportGeekbench 6 OpenCL27852
📘 2026-10-01 -> RennsportGeekbench 7 OpenCL23850
📘 2026-10-01 -> RennsportGeekbench 7 OpenCL28775
📘 2026-08-17 -> RennsportGeekbench 6 OpenCL32197
📘 2026-02-26 (iFraan)Geekbench 6 OpenCL28558
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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
Radeon 840M
4884
Radeon 780M +86%
9091
GB6 ML Half Precision
Radeon 840M
6067
Radeon 780M +123%
13510
GB6 ML Quantized
Radeon 840M
3946
Radeon 780M +72%
6786
Image Classification (SP) 1988 3860
Image Segmentation (HP) 2184 5435
Image Super Resolution (Q) 4788 10580
Face Detection (HP) 6857 12855
Pose Estimation (Q) 17396 34716
Text Classification (SP) 1628 2578
Machine Translation (HP) 2053 3897
Object Detection (SP) 1825 3078
Depth Estimation (Q) 8471 14989
Style Transfer (SP) 31032 78608
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 840M and Radeon 780M

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 7, 2025 January 4, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.5 RDNA 3.0
GPU Codename Krackan Point Phoenix
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc 130T - Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
Successor - - Radeon 8050S
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 or above - AMD Ryzen 7 7840U 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 H 255
- AMD Ryzen 7 8745HS
- AMD Ryzen 7 250
- AMD Ryzen 7 260
- AMD Ryzen 9 270
- AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme
- AMD Ryzen 7 8700G
- AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
- and 6 more
Laptop GPU ranking (108th and 99th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 800 MHz
Boost Clock 2900 MHz 2700-2800 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 256 768
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 16 48
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 4 12
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores 4 12
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 86-90 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 46 GTexel/s 130-134 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 840M
1.5 TFLOPS
Radeon 780M +187%
4.1-4.3 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 -

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 2.1
CUDA No -
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1 2.1

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7 (21.2%)
26 (78.8%)
Total votes: 33

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