NVIDIA started Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) 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.

General info

Some basic facts about Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5): architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	674
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name	Surface Book
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	1 October 2015 (8 years ago)

Technical specs

Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5)'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 (940M, GDDR5)'s performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	384	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	954 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed	993 MHz	of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	of 4 (Radeon 780M)

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5): 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 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	64 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Shared memory	-

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5). You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus

API support

APIs supported by Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5), sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	DirectX 12 (FL 11_0), Shader 5.0
CUDA	+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5). 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

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

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.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) 2076

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.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) 11380

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.

Benchmark coverage: 8%

Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) 123411

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) 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

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	6−7
Battlefield 5	9−10
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	14−16
Far Cry 5	6−7
Far Cry New Dawn	7−8
Forza Horizon 4	10−11
Red Dead Redemption 2	7−8
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	10−11

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	6−7
Battlefield 5	9−10
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	14−16
Far Cry 5	6−7
Far Cry New Dawn	7−8
Forza Horizon 4	10−11
Metro Exodus	5−6
Red Dead Redemption 2	7−8
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	10−11
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	8−9

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	6−7
Battlefield 5	9−10
Far Cry 5	6−7
Far Cry New Dawn	7−8
Forza Horizon 4	10−11
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	8−9

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	6−7
Metro Exodus	2−3
Red Dead Redemption 2	2−3
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	7−8

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	1−2
Far Cry 5	6−7
Far Cry New Dawn	1−2
Forza Horizon 4	3−4

4K
High Preset

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

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3
Far Cry 5	4−5
Far Cry New Dawn	6−7
Forza Horizon 4	1−2

Relative performance

Overall Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.

Radeon 540X 100.82

Maxwell GPU Surface Book 100.55

Radeon R7 M370 100.27

Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) 100

UHD Graphics 32EUs (Alder Lake) 98.36

Iris Graphics 550 98.08

Radeon HD 7770M 97.53

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) is Radeon R7 M370, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 3 positions in our ranking.