AMD Radeon 740M vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 740M and AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon 740M

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 740M

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 30% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1156 MHz
Around 70% higher boost clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1471 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 14 nm
14x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 210 Watt
Around 5% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 810 vs 768

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 Jan 2023 vs 14 August 2017
Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 1156 MHz
Boost clock speed	2500 MHz vs 1471 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 210 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	810 vs 768

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

8.3x more texture fill rate: 330.00 GTexel/s vs 40.00 GTexel/s
14x more pipelines: 3584 vs 256
4.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 13175 vs 3184
16.5x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 163998 vs 9954

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	330.00 GTexel/s vs 40.00 GTexel/s
Pipelines	3584 vs 256
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	13175 vs 3184
Geekbench - OpenCL	163998 vs 9954

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 740M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

810

768

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3184

13175

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

9954

163998

Name	AMD Radeon 740M	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
PassMark - G2D Mark	810	768
PassMark - G3D Mark	3184	13175
Geekbench - OpenCL	9954	163998
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		184.405
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1765.06
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		12.606
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		79.32
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		1022.925
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		14462
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3361
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		14462
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3361
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		6875

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 740M	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 3.0	GCN 5.0
Code name	Phoenix	Vega 10
Launch date	4 Jan 2023	14 August 2017
Place in performance rating	220	217
Design		Radeon RX Vega Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$399
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2500 MHz	1471 MHz
Compute units	4	56
Core clock speed	1500 MHz	1156 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	14 nm
Pipelines	256	3584
Pixel fill rate	20.00 GPixel/s	94.00 GP/s
Texture fill rate	40.00 GTexel/s	330.00 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	210 Watt
Transistor count	25390 million	12,500 million
Floating-point performance		10.5 TFLOPs
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		21 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance		10.5 TFLOPs
Render output units		64
Stream Processors		3584
Texture Units		256
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 8-pin
Length		267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)		650 Watt
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12
OpenCL	2.1	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	System Dependent	410 GB/s
Memory bus width	System Shared	2048 bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	1600 MHz
Memory type	System Shared	HBM2
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
FreeSync
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready
ZeroCore