Arc Pro A50 vs Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking707not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameSurface BookDG2-128
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date1 October 2015 (9 years ago)8 August 2022 (2 years 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 cores3841024
Core clock speed954 MHz2000 MHz
Boost clock speed993 MHz2350 MHz
Number of transistorsno data7,200 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data75 Watt
Texture fill rateno data150.4
Floating-point processing powerno data4.813 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data64
Ray Tracing Coresno data8

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x8
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB6 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed5012 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data192.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

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 data4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

Supported technologies

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

Optimus+-

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX 12 (FL 11_0), Shader 5.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2015 8 August 2022
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 6 nm

Arc Pro A50 has an age advantage of 6 years, a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 366.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) and Arc Pro A50. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) is a notebook card while Arc Pro A50 is a workstation one.


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