GeForce GTX 470M vs Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5)

Place in performance ranking	675	589
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	no data	0.63
Architecture	Maxwell (2014−2018)	Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name	Surface Book	N11E-GT
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	1 October 2015 (8 years old)	1 November 2010 (13 years old)
Current price	no data	$78

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores	384	288
Core clock speed	954 MHz	535 MHz
Boost clock speed	993 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	no data	1,950 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	no data	75 Watt
Texture fill rate	no data	19.7 billion/sec
Floating-point performance	no data	616.3 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) and GeForce GTX 470M 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 size	no data	large
Interface	no data	MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None
SLI options	no 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 type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1536 MB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz	1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	60.0 GB/s
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 Connectors

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No outputs

Technologies

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

Optimus

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API support

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

DirectX	DirectX 12 (FL 11_0), Shader 5.0	12 API
Shader Model	no data	5.1
OpenGL	no data	4.5
OpenCL	no data	1.1
Vulkan	no data	N/A
CUDA	+	+

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance 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.

Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) 3.65

GTX 470M 5.04
+38.1%

GeForce GTX 470M outperforms Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) by 38% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) 2577
+28.7%

GTX 470M 2003

Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) outperforms GeForce GTX 470M by 29% in 3DMark 11 Performance GPU.

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

900p	24−27 −41.7%	34 +41.7%
Full HD	28 −78.6%	50 +78.6%

Performance in popular games

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	6−7 −50%	9−10 +50%
Battlefield 5	9−10 −66.7%	14−16 +66.7%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	14−16 −14.3%	16−18 +14.3%
Far Cry 5	6−7 −83.3%	10−12 +83.3%
Far Cry New Dawn	7−8 −57.1%	10−12 +57.1%
Forza Horizon 4	10−11 −60%	16−18 +60%
Red Dead Redemption 2	7−8 −28.6%	9−10 +28.6%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	10−11 −30%	12−14 +30%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	6−7 −50%	9−10 +50%
Battlefield 5	9−10 −66.7%	14−16 +66.7%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	14−16 −14.3%	16−18 +14.3%
Far Cry 5	6−7 −83.3%	10−12 +83.3%
Far Cry New Dawn	7−8 −57.1%	10−12 +57.1%
Forza Horizon 4	10−11 −60%	16−18 +60%
Metro Exodus	5−6 −40%	7−8 +40%
Red Dead Redemption 2	7−8 −28.6%	9−10 +28.6%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	10−11 −30%	12−14 +30%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	8−9 −37.5%	10−12 +37.5%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	6−7 −50%	9−10 +50%
Battlefield 5	9−10 −66.7%	14−16 +66.7%
Far Cry 5	6−7 −83.3%	10−12 +83.3%
Far Cry New Dawn	7−8 −57.1%	10−12 +57.1%
Forza Horizon 4	10−11 −60%	16−18 +60%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	8−9 −37.5%	10−12 +37.5%

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	6−7 −33.3%	8−9 +33.3%
Metro Exodus	2−3 −50%	3−4 +50%
Red Dead Redemption 2	2−3 −50%	3−4 +50%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	7−8 −14.3%	8−9 +14.3%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	1−2 −200%	3−4 +200%
Far Cry 5	6−7 −33.3%	8−9 +33.3%
Far Cry New Dawn	1−2 −300%	4−5 +300%
Forza Horizon 4	3−4 −100%	6−7 +100%

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	3−4 −33.3%	4−5 +33.3%
Red Dead Redemption 2	2−3 +0%	2−3 +0%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	0−1	1−2

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3 +0%	2−3 +0%
Far Cry 5	4−5 −25%	5−6 +25%
Far Cry New Dawn	6−7 −16.7%	7−8 +16.7%
Forza Horizon 4	1−2 −200%	3−4 +200%