Radeon RX Vega 7 vs Radeon 740M
AMD Radeon 740M
Phoenix
We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon RX Vega 7 with 7 pipelines and 448 shaders against the 3 years and 1 month newer Radeon 740M 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 RX Vega 7
- 29% higher maximum theoretical performance (1.8 vs 1.4 TFLOPS)
- Has 75% more shading units (448 vs 256)
Reasons to consider the Radeon 740M
- Performs significantly better (up to 47%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
- Ray-tracing support with 4 dedicated RT cores
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | - | 25 13 12 - |
| The Witcher 3 | - | 10 11 - - |
| Counter-Strike 2 | - | 28 19 13 - |
| Far Cry 6 | - | 20 18 11 - |
| Hogwarts Legacy | - | 12 9 - - |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | - | 19 19 14 9 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | - | 12 9 - - |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | - | 10 9 - - |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | - | 18 17 12 - |
| 1080p High | - | 17 |
| 1080p Ultra | - | 14 |
| 1440p Ultra | - | 10 |
| 4K Ultra | - | - |
| Margin of Error | High | High |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 1067 | 1571 |
| Solar Bay | - | 5514 |
| Port Royal | - | 722 |
| Fire Strike | 3394 | 4931 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 2013 | 3115 |
| Night Raid | 13085 | 16642 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 33.7 img/sec | 31.6 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 15.4 img/sec | 15.3 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 0.35 Gpixels/sec | 0.44 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 0.76 Gpixels/sec | 0.56 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 0.69 Gpixels/sec | 0.47 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.21 Gpixels/sec | 0.17 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 54.7 Gpixels/sec | 47 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 1957.6 FPS | 1815.3 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 568 | 778 |
| DirectX 11 | 16 FPS | 24 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 11 FPS | 16 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 1215 Ops/s | 1628 Ops/s |
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) | 1323 | 1608 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 1675 | 2046 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 2919 | 5074 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 4386 | 5435 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 9348 | 16992 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 1024 | 1469 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 1888 | 1922 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 1452 | 1516 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 5272 | 7572 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 19585 | 30182 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX Vega 7 and Radeon 740MGeneral
| Vendor | Amd | Amd |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | January 7, 2020 | January 4, 2023 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Generic | Generic |
| Segment | Entry-level | Entry-level |
| Architecture | Raven | RDNA 3.0 |
| GPU Codename | - | Phoenix |
| Rival Equivalent | - | - Intel Arc iGPU (4-Cores) |
| Successor | - Radeon Graphics iGPU (Ryzen 7000) | - Radeon 840M |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen 5 5500U or above | - AMD Ryzen 5 8540U or above |
| Used in CPUs | - AMD Ryzen 5 7430U - AMD Ryzen 5 7530U - AMD Ryzen 5 5625U - AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 5650U - AMD Ryzen 5 5600G - AMD Ryzen 5 5600U - AMD Ryzen 5 5600H - AMD Ryzen 5 5500U - and 4 more |
- 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 (119th and 114th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 300 MHz | 800 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1500-2000 MHz (configurable) | 2500-2800 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 448 | 256 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 28 | 16 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 8 | 8 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 7 | 4 |
| Tensor Cores | No | - |
| Ray-tracing Cores | No | 4 |
| L1 Cache | - | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | - | 2MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 12-16 GPixel/s | 20-22 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 42-56 GTexel/s | 40-45 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | IGP | PCIe 4.0 x8 |
| TGP | 15 W | 15 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 7 nm | 4 nm |
| Die Size | - | 178 mm² |
| Transistor Count | - | 25.4 billion |
| Transistor Density | - | 142.7 MTr/mm² |
| Max. Temperature | - | 95°C |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | System Shared |
| Memory Size | System RAM Dependent | - |
| Memory Clock | System RAM Dependent | - |
| Effective Memory Speed | System RAM Dependent | - |
| ECC | No | No |
API
| DirectX | 12.1 | 12 |
| Vulkan | - | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.2 | 2.1 |
| Ray Tracing | No | Yes |
| DLSS | No | No |
| DisplayPort | - | 2.1 |
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