AMD Radeon 840M vs Apple M2 Pro GPU (19-core)
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AMD Radeon 840M
Krackan Point
We compared two integrated laptop graphics cards: the Radeon 840M with 4 pipelines and 256 shaders against the 2 years older Apple M2 Pro GPU (19-core) that utilizes 304 pipelines and 2432 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
DeviceFacts Final Score
Overall video card score
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Radeon 840M
- Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the Apple M2 Pro GPU (19-core)
- Performs significantly better (up to 3.9x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 4.5x higher maximum theoretical performance (6.8 vs 1.5 TFLOPS)
- Has 9.5x more shading units (2432 vs 256)
- Achieves 3.5x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (49K vs 14K)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 25 14 12 - |
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| The Witcher 3 | 11 12 - - |
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| Counter-Strike 2 | 27 20 14 - |
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| Far Cry 6 | 21 17 12 - |
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| Hogwarts Legacy | 11 - - - |
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| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 22 19 14 9 |
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| Ghost of Tsushima | 13 10 - - |
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| Cyberpunk 2077 | 10 10 - - |
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| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 16 18 11 - |
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| 1080p High | 17 | - |
| 1080p Ultra | 14 | - |
| 1440p Ultra | 10 | - |
| 4K Ultra | - | - |
| Margin of Error | High | High |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 1699 | - |
| Solar Bay | 6960 | 16218 |
| Port Royal | 553 | - |
| Fire Strike | 5303 | - |
| Wild Life Extreme | 2671 | 12726 |
| Night Raid | 22563 | - |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 31.8 img/sec | 89.7 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 16.8 img/sec | 58 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 0.46 Gpixels/sec | 1.94 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 0.58 Gpixels/sec | 3.26 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 0.42 Gpixels/sec | 2.19 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.18 Gpixels/sec | 0.55 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 52.5 Gpixels/sec | 163 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 2048.6 FPS | 6139.2 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 870 | - |
| DirectX 11 | 32 FPS | - |
| DirectX 12 | 17 FPS | - |
| GPU Compute | 1697 Ops/s | - |
Blender
Blender GPU
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 1988 | 5279 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 2184 | 8089 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 4788 | 15007 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 6857 | 19212 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 17396 | 44046 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 1628 | 2280 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 2053 | 1972 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 1825 | 4941 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 8471 | 22209 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 31032 | 79898 |
| Framework | ONNX | Core ML |
| Backend | DirectML | GPU |
Results were compared using different ML frameworks
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon 840M and Apple M2 Pro GPU (19-core)General
| Vendor | Amd | Apple |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | January 7, 2025 | January 17, 2023 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Generic | Professional |
| Segment | Entry-level | High-end |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.5 | Apple M GPU |
| GPU Codename | Krackan Point | - |
| Rival Equivalent | - Intel Arc 130T | - GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop |
| Successor | - | - Apple M5 Pro GPU (20-core) |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 or above | - Apple M2 Pro or above |
| Used in CPUs | - AMD Ryzen AI 7 345 - AMD Ryzen AI 5 430 - AMD Ryzen AI 7 445 - AMD Ryzen AI 5 435 - AMD Ryzen AI 5 440 - AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 |
- Apple M2 Pro |
Laptop GPU ranking (108th and 70th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 400 MHz | 450 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2900 MHz | 1398 MHz |
| Shading Units | 256 | 2432 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 16 | 152 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 8 | 76 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 4 | 304 |
| Tensor Cores | No | - |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 4 | - |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | - |
| L2 Cache | 1MB shared | - |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 23 GPixel/s | 106 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 46 GTexel/s | 212 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | Custom |
| TGP | 15 W | 35 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 195 mm² | - |
| Transistor Count | - | 26 billion |
| Max. Temperature | 100°C | 94°C |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | System Shared |
| Memory Clock | - | 6400 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | - | 12800 Mbps |
| Bus | - | 256-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | - |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | - |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | - |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | - |
| CUDA | No | - |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | No |
| DLSS | No | No |
| DisplayPort | 2.1 | - |
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