NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) vs AMD FirePro M8900

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General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot rated673
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTerascale 2 (2009−2015)Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code nameBlackcomb XTSurface Book
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date12 April 2011 (12 years old)1 October 2015 (8 years old)
Current price$267 no data

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores960384
Core clock speed680 MHz954 MHz
Boost clock speedno data993 MHz
Number of transistors1,700 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Wattno data
Texture fill rate32.64no data
Floating-point performance1,305.6 gflopsno data

Size and compatibility

Information on FirePro M8900 and Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizelargeno data
Bus supportn/ano data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)no data
Form factorMXM-Bno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

Memory

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB1 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz5012 MHz
Memory bandwidth115 GB/sno data
Shared memory--

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsno data

Technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimusno data+

API support

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)DirectX 12 (FL 11_0), Shader 5.0
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.4no data
OpenCL1.2no data
VulkanN/Ano data
CUDAno data+

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 12 April 2011 1 October 2015
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm

We couldn't decide between FirePro M8900 and Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5). We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro M8900 is a mobile workstation card while Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD FirePro M8900
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