GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition 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 ranking775not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)Maxwell (2014−2017)
GPU code nameSurface BookGM107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 October 2015 (10 years ago)13 March 2015 (10 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 cores384640
Core clock speed954 MHz993 MHz
Boost clock speed993 MHz1124 MHz
Number of transistorsno data1,870 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data75 Watt
Texture fill rateno data44.96
Floating-point processing powerno data1.439 TFLOPS
ROPsno data16
TMUsno data40
L1 Cacheno data320 KB
L2 Cacheno data2 MB

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 dataMXM-B (3.0)

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 typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB2 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed5012 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data28.8 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs

Supported technologies

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

Optimus+-

API and SDK support

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

DirectXDirectX 12 (FL 11_0), Shader 5.012 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.1.126
CUDA+5.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2015 13 March 2015
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB

Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) has an age advantage of 6 months.

GTX 950M Mac Edition, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) and GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.

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NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5)
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

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