AMD Radeon 740M vs AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 740M and AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient 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, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon 740M

AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 740M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 8 month(s) later
5x more core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 300 MHz
2.5x more boost clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1011 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 14 nm

Launch date	4 Jan 2023 vs 23 April 2018
Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 300 MHz
Boost clock speed	2500 MHz vs 1011 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 14 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 740M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient

Name	AMD Radeon 740M	AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient
PassMark - G2D Mark	811
PassMark - G3D Mark	3209
Geekbench - OpenCL	10125
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		880

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 740M	AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 3.0	GCN 5.0
Code name	Phoenix	Raven
Launch date	4 Jan 2023	23 April 2018
Place in performance rating	236	1309
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2500 MHz	1011 MHz
Compute units	4
Core clock speed	1500 MHz	300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	14 nm
Pipelines	256
Pixel fill rate	20.00 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	40.00 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	15 Watt
Transistor count	25390 million	4,940 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	System Dependent
Memory bus width	System Shared
Memory clock speed	System Shared
Memory type	System Shared