Maxwell GPU Surface Book: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Maxwell GPU Surface Book provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 3.69% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
NVIDIA started Maxwell GPU Surface Book sales 1 October 2015. This is a Maxwell architecture notebook card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 1 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 5.01 GHz are supplied.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Maxwell GPU Surface Book: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 706 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Maxwell (2014−2017) | |
| GPU code name | Surface Book | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 1 October 2015 (9 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Maxwell GPU Surface Book's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Maxwell GPU Surface Book's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 384 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 954 MHz | of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU) |
| Boost clock speed | 993 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Maxwell GPU Surface Book: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 5012 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Shared memory | - |
Supported technologies
Technological solutions and APIs supported by Maxwell GPU Surface Book. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
| Optimus | + |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Maxwell GPU Surface Book, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (FL 11_0) | |
| CUDA | + |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Maxwell GPU Surface Book. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.
3DMark Cloud Gate GPU
Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.
3DMark Ice Storm GPU
Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.
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Gaming performance
Let's see how good Maxwell GPU Surface Book is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Average FPS across all PC games
Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:
| Full HD | 23 |
FPS performance in popular games
Full HD
Low Preset
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 7−8 |
Full HD
Medium Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 10−12 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 2−3 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 8−9 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 8−9 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 7−8 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 7−8 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 10−11 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 21−24 | |
| Hitman 3 | 9−10 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 24−27 | |
| Metro Exodus | 6−7 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 9−10 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 14−16 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 40−45 |
Full HD
High Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 10−12 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 2−3 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 8−9 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 8−9 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 7−8 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 7−8 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 10−11 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 21−24 | |
| Hitman 3 | 9−10 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 24−27 | |
| Metro Exodus | 6−7 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 9−10 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 14−16 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 14−16 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 40−45 |
Full HD
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 10−12 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 2−3 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 8−9 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 7−8 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 7−8 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 21−24 | |
| Hitman 3 | 9−10 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 24−27 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 14−16 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 14−16 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 40−45 |
Full HD
Epic Preset
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 9−10 |
1440p
High Preset
| Battlefield 5 | 6−7 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 6−7 |
1440p
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 3−4 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 3−4 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 2−3 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 4−5 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 2−3 | |
| Hitman 3 | 8−9 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 9−10 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 3−4 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 21−24 |
1440p
Epic Preset
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 7−8 |
4K
High Preset
| Battlefield 5 | 2−3 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 2−3 |
4K
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 2−3 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 2−3 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 1−2 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 0−1 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 2−3 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 2−3 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 1−2 |
4K
Epic Preset
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 4−5 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Maxwell GPU Surface Book is Radeon R7 M370, which is slower by 1% and lower by 2 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to Maxwell GPU Surface Book:
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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