AMD Radeon 8040S vs Intel Arc B390

Compared 2 processors: AMD Radeon 8040S, vs Intel Arc B390. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs AMD Radeon 8040S and Intel Arc B390
Games
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, Vulkan
AI/ML
AI workload testing
Professional Apps
3D modeling, video editing, rendering
Energy Efficiency
Power usage in various scenarios
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Games

FPS Table
Game title
1080p (High)
1080p (Ultra)
1440p (Ultra)
4K (Ultra)
Forza Horizon 5
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
70
38
29
20
The Witcher 3
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
68
55
39
19
Counter-Strike 2
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
84
60
42
17
Far Cry 6
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
55
49
37
14
Hogwarts Legacy
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
29
21
16
n/a
COD Modern Warfare 3
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
35
32
26
15
Ghost of Tsushima
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
33
25
21
10
Cyberpunk 2077
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
37
33
18
n/a
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
57
52
35
19
Avg FPS
1080p Highn/a52
1080p Ultran/a41
1440p Ultran/a29
4K Ultran/a14
Deviationn/aLow

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
3DMark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
AMD Radeon 8040S
n/a
Intel Arc B390
4242
Time Spyn/a6595
Solar Bayn/a26399
Port Royaln/a3886
Fire Striken/a16770
Night Raidn/a68498
GeekBench v6
GB6 Compute Score
AMD Radeon 8040S
35976
Intel Arc B390
64546
Background Blur106.8 frames/sn/a
Face Detection43.8 frames/sn/a
Horizon Detection1.12 Gpix/secn/a
Edge Detection1.17 Gpix/secn/a
Gaussian Blur1.07 Gpix/secn/a
Feature Matching0.5 Gpix/secn/a
Stereo Matching163 Gpix/secn/a
Particle Physics5820.4 fpsn/a
APIOpenCLn/a
PassMark
PassMark Graphics
AMD Radeon 8040S
n/a
Intel Arc B390
9029
G2D Markn/a786
DirectX 11n/a70 fps
DirectX 12n/a50 fps
GPU Computen/a3702 Ops/s
Geekbench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
AMD Radeon 8040S
n/a
Intel Arc B390
11871
GB6 ML Half Precision
AMD Radeon 8040S
n/a
Intel Arc B390
20120
GB6 ML Quantized
AMD Radeon 8040S
n/a
Intel Arc B390
7879
Image Classification (SP)n/a5487
Image Segmentation (HP)n/a16864
Horizon Detectionn/a8788
Face Detection (HP)n/a25029
Pose Estimation (Q)n/a18852
Text Classification (SP)n/a2115
Machine Translation (HP)n/a4266
Object Detection (SP)n/a7449
Depth Estimation (Q)n/a22207
Style Transfer (SP)n/a95039
Frameworkn/aONNX
Backendn/aDirectML

Tech Specs

Specs & test comparison

General Info

Manufacturer AMD Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Announced January, 7, 2025 January, 5, 2026
Form Factor Laptop use Laptop use
Use case Universal Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Celestial
Codename Strix Halo Panther Lake

GPU

GPU Frequency n/a 300 MHz
Boost GPU Frequency 2800 MHz 2500 MHz
Shader Units 1024 1536
TMUs 64 48
ROPs 32 24
Execution Units 16 12
Ray Tracing Cores 16 n/a
L1 cache n/a 64 KB/core
L2 cache n/a 16000 KB/core
Instructions per Clock 4 IPC 2 IPC

Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 90 Gpix/sec 60 Gpix/sec
Texture Fill Rate 179 GTex/s 120 GTex/s
FLOPS 11.5 TFLOPS 7.7 TFLOPS

Process

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 5.0
TGP 45-120 W n/a
Process TSMC TSMC
Process tech. 4 nm 3 nm
Max temperature 100 °C 100 °C

Memory

Interface System Shared System Shared
ECC support n/a No

API

DirectX 12 12.1
Vulkan 1.4 1.4
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
DisplayPort 2.1a 2.1
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No

Results

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