AMD Radeon 740M vs AMD Radeon HD 7850M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 740M and AMD Radeon HD 7850M 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 HD 7850M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 740M

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 8 month(s) later
2.2x more core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 675 MHz
1481.5x more texture fill rate: 40.00 GTexel/s vs 27 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 28 nm
2.7x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 40 Watt
Around 37% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 775 vs 566
2.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3472 vs 1373

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 Jan 2023 vs 24 April 2012
Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 675 MHz
Texture fill rate	40.00 GTexel/s vs 27 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 40 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	775 vs 566
PassMark - G3D Mark	3472 vs 1373

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7850M

2.5x more pipelines: 640 vs 256

Pipelines	640 vs 256

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 740M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7850M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

775

566

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3472

1373

Name	AMD Radeon 740M	AMD Radeon HD 7850M
PassMark - G2D Mark	775	566
PassMark - G3D Mark	3472	1373
Geekbench - OpenCL	9441

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 740M	AMD Radeon HD 7850M
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 3.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	Phoenix	Heathrow
Launch date	4 Jan 2023	24 April 2012
Place in performance rating	221	223
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2500 MHz
Compute units	4
Core clock speed	1500 MHz	675 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	256	640
Pixel fill rate	20.00 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	40.00 GTexel/s	27 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	25390 million	1,500 million
Floating-point performance		864.0 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	System Dependent	64 GB / s
Memory bus width	System Shared	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	4000 MHz
Memory type	System Shared	GDDR5
Shared memory		0