AMD Radeon 740M vs AMD Radeon VII

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 740M and AMD Radeon VII 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 VII

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 740M

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 7% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Around 43% higher boost clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1750 MHz
92.5x more texture fill rate: 40.00 GTexel/s vs 432.24 GT/s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 7 nm
20x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 300 Watt
Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 811 vs 792

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 Jan 2023 vs 7 February 2019
Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Boost clock speed	2500 MHz vs 1750 MHz
Texture fill rate	40.00 GTexel/s vs 432.24 GT/s
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 300 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	811 vs 792

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon VII

15x more pipelines: 3840 vs 256
5.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 16398 vs 3209
9.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 91678 vs 10125

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	3840 vs 256
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	16398 vs 3209
Geekbench - OpenCL	91678 vs 10125

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 740M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon VII

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

811

792

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3209

16398

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

10125

91678

Name	AMD Radeon 740M	AMD Radeon VII
PassMark - G2D Mark	811	792
PassMark - G3D Mark	3209	16398
Geekbench - OpenCL	10125	91678
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		206.353
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		4659.199
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		21.606
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		69.256
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		499.927
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		11724
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3360
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		11724
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3360
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		2304

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 740M	AMD Radeon VII
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 3.0	GCN 5.1
Code name	Phoenix	Vega 20
Launch date	4 Jan 2023	7 February 2019
Place in performance rating	236	237
Design		AMD Radeon 2nd generation Vega
GCN generation		5th Gen
Launch price (MSRP)		$699
Price now		$699.99
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		32.74
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2500 MHz	1750 MHz
Compute units	4	60
Core clock speed	1500 MHz	1400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	7 nm
Pipelines	256	3840
Pixel fill rate	20.00 GPixel/s	115.26 GP/s
Texture fill rate	40.00 GTexel/s	432.24 GT/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	300 Watt
Transistor count	25390 million	13,230 million
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		3.46 TFLOPs
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		27.7 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance		13.8 TFLOPs
Stream Processors		3840
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count		3
DisplayPort 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		305 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)		750 W
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0
OpenCL	2.1	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	16 GB
Memory bandwidth	System Dependent	1024 GB/s
Memory bus width	System Shared	4096 Bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	2000 MHz
Memory type	System Shared	HBM2
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
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