AMD Radeon 740M vs AMD Radeon RX 6500M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 740M and AMD Radeon RX 6500M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

AMD Radeon 740M

AMD Radeon RX 6500M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 740M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 4% higher boost clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 2400 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 6 nm
3.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 50 Watt
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 811 vs 386

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 Jan 2023 vs 4 Jan 2022
Boost clock speed	2500 MHz vs 2400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 6 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 50 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	811 vs 386

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6500M

Around 33% higher core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1500 MHz
3.8x more texture fill rate: 153.6 GTexel/s vs 40.00 GTexel/s
4x more pipelines: 1024 vs 256
2.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7533 vs 3209
3.9x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 39298 vs 10125

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Texture fill rate	153.6 GTexel/s vs 40.00 GTexel/s
Pipelines	1024 vs 256
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	7533 vs 3209
Geekbench - OpenCL	39298 vs 10125

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 740M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 6500M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

811

386

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3209

7533

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

10125

39298

Name	AMD Radeon 740M	AMD Radeon RX 6500M
PassMark - G2D Mark	811	386
PassMark - G3D Mark	3209	7533
Geekbench - OpenCL	10125	39298

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 740M	AMD Radeon RX 6500M
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 3.0	RDNA 2.0
Code name	Phoenix	Navi 24
Launch date	4 Jan 2023	4 Jan 2022
Place in performance rating	236	295
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2500 MHz	2400 MHz
Compute units	4	16
Core clock speed	1500 MHz	2000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	6 nm
Pipelines	256	1024
Pixel fill rate	20.00 GPixel/s	76.80 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	40.00 GTexel/s	153.6 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	50 Watt
Transistor count	25390 million	5400 million
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		307.2 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		9.830 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance		4.915 TFLOPS
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	Portable Device Dependent
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 4.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	2.1	2.2
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	System Dependent	144.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	System Shared	64 bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Memory type	System Shared	GDDR6