Radeon 8040S vs AI PRO R9700

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRDNA 4.0 (2025)RDNA 3.5 (2024−2025)
GPU code nameNavi 48no data
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date23 July 2025 (recently)6 January 2025 (less than a year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores409616
Core clock speed1660 MHzno data
Boost clock speed2920 MHz2800 MHz
Number of transistors53,900 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology4 nmno data
Power consumption (TDP)300 Wattno data
Texture fill rate747.5no data
Floating-point processing power47.84 TFLOPSno data
ROPs128no data
TMUs256no data
Tensor Cores128no data
Ray Tracing Cores64no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 5.0 x16no data
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 16-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6no data
Maximum RAM amount32 GBno data
Memory bus width256 Bitno data
Memory clock speed2518 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth644.6 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+
Resizable BAR++

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors4x DisplayPort 2.1ano data

API and SDK compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)no data
Shader Model6.8no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.2no data
Vulkan1.3-
DLSS+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 July 2025 6 January 2025

AI PRO R9700 has an age advantage of 6 months.

We couldn't decide between Radeon AI PRO R9700 and Radeon 8040S. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon AI PRO R9700 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon 8040S is a notebook one.

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