RSX-CXD2953 vs Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	712	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Maxwell (2014−2017)	Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name	Surface Book	RSX-CXD2953
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	1 October 2015 (8 years ago)	no data

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 cores	384	no data
Core clock speed	954 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	993 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	no data	300 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
ROPs	no data	8
TMUs	no data	24

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 type	GDDR5	no data
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	no data
Memory bus width	64 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz	no data
Shared memory	-	no data

Supported technologies

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

Optimus

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API compatibility

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

DirectX	DirectX 12 (FL 11_0), Shader 5.0	N/A
OpenGL	no data	ES 1.1
CUDA	+	-

Pros & cons summary

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Chip lithography

28 nm

90 nm

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