Radeon RX Vega 7 vs Radeon 740M

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

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 740M over RX Vega 7
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 resolutions

Games

FPS Table
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
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High - 17
1080p Ultra - 14
1440p Ultra - 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
947
1388
Time Spy 1067 1571
Solar Bay - 5514
Port Royal - 722
Fire Strike 3394 4931
Wild Life Extreme 2013 3115
Night Raid 13085 16642
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX Vega 7 +13%
14408
12774
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
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
2250
2941
G2D Mark 568 778
DirectX 11 16 FPS 24 FPS
DirectX 12 11 FPS 16 FPS
GPU Compute 1215 Ops/s 1628 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6]88 & 2190 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
n/a
102.53
Sources: Blender [9]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
3157
4462
GB6 ML Half Precision
4191
5298
GB6 ML Quantized
2365
3419
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
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX Vega 7 and Radeon 740M

General

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)
RX Vega 7 +29%
1.3-1.8 TFLOPS
1.3-1.4 TFLOPS

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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