Radeon 860M vs Radeon 840M
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AMD Radeon 860M
Krackan Point
AMD Radeon 840M
Krackan Point
We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 860M with 8 pipelines and 512 shaders against the Radeon 840M that utilizes 4 pipelines and 256 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 860M
- Performs significantly better (up to 66%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 2.1x higher maximum theoretical performance (3.1 vs 1.5 TFLOPS)
- Achieves 63% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (22K vs 14K)
- Has 2x more shading units (512 vs 256)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 41 24 20 11 |
25 14 12 - |
| The Witcher 3 | 19 18 11 - |
11 12 - - |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 39 26 19 9 |
27 20 14 - |
| Far Cry 6 | 31 26 16 9 |
21 17 12 - |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 16 12 10 - |
11 - - - |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 28 27 17 12 |
22 19 14 9 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 16 12 9 - |
13 10 - - |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 19 13 - - |
10 10 - - |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 29 22 15 - |
16 18 11 - |
| 1080p High | 26 | 17 |
| 1080p Ultra | 20 | 14 |
| 1440p Ultra | 14 | 10 |
| 4K Ultra | - | - |
| Margin of Error | Low | High |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 2604 | 1699 |
| Solar Bay | 11094 | 6960 |
| Port Royal | 1046 | 553 |
| Fire Strike | 6772 | 5303 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 5124 | 2671 |
| Night Raid | 29064 | 22563 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 57.2 img/sec | 31.8 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 30.5 img/sec | 16.8 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 0.83 Gpixels/sec | 0.46 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 1.16 Gpixels/sec | 0.58 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 0.93 Gpixels/sec | 0.42 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.35 Gpixels/sec | 0.18 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 97.8 Gpixels/sec | 52.5 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 3933.5 FPS | 2048.6 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 920 | 870 |
| DirectX 11 | 37 FPS | 32 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 25 FPS | 17 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 2437 Ops/s | 1697 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon 860M
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-08-17 (flauzwerfer) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 24017 |
| 📘 2026-08-17 (flauzwerfer) | Steel Nomad Light | 2476 |
| 📘 2026-07-04 -> Starjack36 | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 24971 |
Radeon 840M
No benchmark results yet
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) | 2022 | 1988 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 3987 | 2184 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 6657 | 4788 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 10337 | 6857 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 28437 | 17396 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 2326 | 1628 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 4011 | 2053 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 1995 | 1825 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 12031 | 8471 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 56710 | 31032 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon 860M and Radeon 840MGeneral
| Vendor | Amd | Amd |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | January 7, 2025 | January 7, 2025 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Generic | Generic |
| Segment | Mid-range | Entry-level |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.5 | RDNA 3.5 |
| GPU Codename | Krackan Point | Krackan Point |
| Rival Equivalent | - Intel Arc 140T | - Intel Arc 130T |
| Successor | - Radeon 8040S | - |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 or above | - AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 or above |
| Used in CPUs | - AMD Ryzen AI 7 450 - AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 |
- 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 (101st and 108th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 600 MHz | 400 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 3000 MHz | 2900 MHz |
| Shading Units | 512 | 256 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 32 | 16 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 16 | 8 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 8 | 4 |
| Tensor Cores | No | No |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 8 | 4 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | 1MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 48 GPixel/s | 23 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 96 GTexel/s | 46 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
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 | 233 mm² | 195 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 34 billion | - |
| Transistor Density | 145.92 MTr/mm² | - |
| Max. Temperature | 100°C | 100°C |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | System Shared |
| ECC | No | No |
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| 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 | 2.1 |
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