Radeon HD 8570 OEM vs Maxwell GPU Surface Book

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking772not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code nameSurface BookOland
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 October 2015 (10 years ago)8 January 2013 (12 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 cores384384
Core clock speed954 MHz730 MHz
Boost clock speed993 MHz780 MHz
Number of transistorsno data950 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data50 Watt
Texture fill rateno data18.72
Floating-point processing powerno data0.599 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data24
L1 Cacheno data96 KB
L2 Cacheno data256 KB

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 3.0 x8
Widthno data1-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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB2 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed5012 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data28.8 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 data1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

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.

DirectX12 (FL 11_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2.131
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2015 8 January 2013
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB

Maxwell GPU Surface Book has an age advantage of 2 years.

HD 8570 OEM, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Maxwell GPU Surface Book and Radeon HD 8570 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Maxwell GPU Surface Book is a notebook graphics card while Radeon HD 8570 OEM is a desktop one.

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