Radeon 840M vs Radeon 8040S

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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 Radeon 8040S that utilizes 16 pipelines and 1024 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
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of Radeon 8040S over Radeon 840M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 8040S
  • Performs significantly better (up to 3.4x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 3.8x higher maximum theoretical performance (5.7 vs 1.5 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 2.8x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 28 vs 10 FPS
  • Achieves 2.6x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (35K vs 14K)
  • Has 4x more shading units (1024 vs 256)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
25
14
12
-
76
40
31
17
The Witcher 3
11
12
-
-
53
44
26
14
Counter-Strike 2
27
20
14
-
84
60
39
15
Far Cry 6
21
17
12
-
61
49
35
16
Hogwarts Legacy
11
-
-
-
33
26
20
10
CoD: Modern Warfare III
22
19
14
9
49
41
31
15
Ghost of Tsushima
13
10
-
-
33
25
18
10
Cyberpunk 2077
10
10
-
-
32
29
17
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
16
18
11
-
65
55
32
17
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 17 54
1080p Ultra 14 41
1440p Ultra 10 28
4K Ultra - 13
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
Radeon 8040S +241%
4502
Time Spy 1699 -
Solar Bay 6960 -
Port Royal 553 -
Fire Strike 5303 -
Wild Life Extreme 2671 -
Night Raid 22563 -
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
14025
Radeon 8040S +157%
35976
Background Blur 31.8 img/sec 106.8 img/sec
Face Detection 16.8 img/sec 43.8 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.46 Gpixels/sec 1.12 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.58 Gpixels/sec 1.17 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.42 Gpixels/sec 1.07 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.18 Gpixels/sec 0.5 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 52.5 Gpixels/sec 163 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 2048.6 FPS 5820.4 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 8040S +188%
10578
G2D Mark 870 1052
DirectX 11 32 FPS 80 FPS
DirectX 12 17 FPS 47 FPS
GPU Compute 1697 Ops/s 5138 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 1020 & 6 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
120.67
Radeon 8040S +212%
376.14
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 12 & 1 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
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], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 840M and Radeon 8040S

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 7, 2025 January 7, 2025
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.5 RDNA 3.5
GPU Codename Krackan Point Strix Halo
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc 130T - GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 or above - AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro 380 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 AI Max PRO 480
- AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro 380
Laptop GPU ranking (108th and 77th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 1295 MHz
Boost Clock 2900 MHz 2800 MHz
Shading Units 256 1024
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 16 64
Render Output Units (ROPs) 8 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 4 16
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores 4 16
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster -
L2 Cache 1MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 23 GPixel/s 90 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 46 GTexel/s 179 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
1.5 TFLOPS
Radeon 8040S +280%
5.7 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 5.0 x16
TGP 15 W 55 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 4 nm
Die Size 195 mm² 308 mm²
Max. Temperature 100°C 100°C

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
ECC No No

API

DirectX 12 12.2
Vulkan 1.4 1.4
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 2.1
CUDA No No
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1 2.1a

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