Radeon 740M: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The Radeon 740M is the smallest of AMD's Phoenix RDNA 3 integrated GPUs — a 256-core iGPU for budget and business machines, sitting two rungs below the 760M and 780M records this catalog covers. 15 games are benchmarked at 1080p, and 18 catalog models match. This guide frames the littlest RDNA 3 honestly.

Where the Radeon 740M sits in 2026

The composite score of 34.4 ranks #164 of 341 — between the T550 record (36.4), GTX 1050 Max-Q (35.4) and Quadro T500 (35.2) above, and the Quadro P2000 Max-Q (33.9), Quadro M2200 (33.7) and Radeon 660M (32.9) below. Matching a Pascal entry dGPU is the right frame: modern iGPU silicon at the bottom of its own family, outperforming last-decade entry cards.

What the chip brings

The record lists the Phoenix codename, RDNA 3 architecture, a 4 nm process, 256 cores and system-shared memory. Public entries: PassMark 2,961, Time Spy 1,699 and Fire Strike 4,625 — entry-tier figures achieved from the CPU package.

FPS in games at 1080p

At the high preset: legacy titles at 140–240; then Valorant at 75, Counter-Strike 2 at 73, Fortnite at 40, Battlefield 5 and Forza Horizon 4 at 30, Far Cry 5 and Forza Horizon 5 at 21, Resident Evil 4 Remake and The Witcher 3 at 18, Cyberpunk 2077 and Metro Exodus at 14. The two big esports titles are genuinely playable; everything heavier needs lowered settings and expectations.

Laptops that carry it

The 18-model roster is a business-fleet tour: HP ProBook 4 G2ah 14"/16" and ProBook 4 G1a 14"/16", EliteBook 6 G1a 14"/16" (2025–2026, $1,144–$1,300), Acer TravelMate P4, ASUS Vivobook S14, HP OmniBook X Flip ($705), Dell Inspiron 16 5645 and 14 5445 ($650), and the HP Pavilion 16-ag at $483 — the budget entry of the fleet. These are work machines first; the 740M is their after-hours option.

Bottom line

The 740M is the gaming floor of current RDNA 3: 73–75 FPS in CS2 and Valorant at 1080p high, honest 14–21 FPS in the heavy titles. For business-fleet buyers it is a fine bonus on machines bought for other reasons; for gaming-first buyers the same family's 760M and 780M pages show what a few more cores buy. At the $483 Pavilion listing, it is the cheapest current-generation RDNA 3 play in the catalog.