RDNA 3.5 AMD Radeon 840M surpasses Radeon 740M in early OpenCL benchmark

AMD's entry-level APU for the Krackan Point lineup, the Ryzen AI 5 340, is now being adopted by laptop makers, with the latest Framework 13 being one of the very first systems to feature it. As it's part of the new APU series, it sports Zen 5 and Zen 5c cores and, most notably, a lower-end RDNA 3.5 GPU, the Radeon 840M.

The Ryzen AI 5 340 has now made its Geekbench debut, offering an idea of how well the iGPU compares against its predecessor. In a particular benchmark run, the Radeon 840M got 14,285 points in the OpenCL test. To compare, the last-gen Radeon 740M gets around 11,000 points.

So, in the OpenCL test, the new Radeon 840M beats the Radeon 740M with over 3,000 points difference. Worth noting that the former is the least capable RDNA 3.5 iGPU in the Krackan Point lineup, featuring only four Compute Units (CUs). The top-end option, the Radeon 890M (Beelink SER9 with AI 9 370 HX curr. $999 on Amazon), in comparison, sports 16 CUs, while the slightly stepped-up Radeon 860M has 8 CUs and gets around 25,450 points in the same test.

Regardless, this higher OpenCL score of the Radeon 840M should eventually lead to better performance in gaming tests when compared to the 740M. This could make the affordable laptops with the Ryzen AI 5 340 somewhat capable of running most AAA games smoothly at the lowest visual preset.

However, it's worth noting that the early Geekbench scores can vary a lot from the scores achieved by the same system after it's launched. It's also unclear how the Ryzen AI 5 340 performs in single and multi-core tests of Geekbench.