Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) vs Quadro P6000
Aggregated performance score
Quadro P6000 outperforms Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) by a whopping 971% based on our aggregated benchmark results.
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in performance ranking | 102 | 674 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 18.87 | no data |
| Architecture | Pascal (2016−2021) | Maxwell (2014−2018) |
| GPU code name | GP102 | Surface Book |
| Market segment | Workstation | Laptop |
| Release date | 1 October 2016 (7 years ago) | 1 October 2015 (8 years ago) |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $5,999 | no data |
| Current price | $989 (0.2x MSRP) | no data |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.
Detailed specifications
General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 3840 | 384 |
| Core clock speed | 1506 MHz | 954 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 1645 MHz | 993 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 11,800 million | no data |
| Manufacturing process technology | 16 nm | 28 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 250 Watt | no data |
| Texture fill rate | 394.8 | no data |
| Floating-point performance | 12,634 gflops | no data |
Form factor & compatibility
Information on Quadro P6000 and Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | no data |
| Length | 267 mm | no data |
| Width | 2" (5.1 cm) | no data |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1 x 8-pin | no data |
| SLI options | + | no data |
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 | 384 Bit | GDDR5 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 24 GB | 1 GB |
| Memory bus width | 384 Bit | 64 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 9016 MHz | 5012 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | Up to 432 GB/s | no data |
| Shared memory | no data | - |
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 Connectors | DVI-D DP DP DP DP 3-pin Stereo | no data |
| Number of simultaneous displays | 4 | no data |
| Multi-display synchronization | Quadro Sync II | no data |
Supported technologies
Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
| Optimus | no data | + |
| ECC (Error Correcting Code) | + | no data |
| 3D Vision Pro | + | no data |
| Mosaic | + | no data |
| High-Performance Video I/O6 | + | no data |
| nView Desktop Management | + | no data |
API compatibility
List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 12 | DirectX 12 (FL 11_0), Shader 5.0 |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | no data |
| OpenGL | 4.5 | no data |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | no data |
| Vulkan | + | no data |
| CUDA | 6.1 | + |
Gaming performance
Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.
Average FPS across all PC games
Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:
| Full HD | 290−300
+936%
| 28
−936%
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Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 39.10 | 3.65 |
| Recency | 1 October 2016 | 1 October 2015 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 24 GB | 1 GB |
| Chip lithography | 16 nm | 28 nm |
The Quadro P6000 is our recommended choice as it beats the Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) in performance tests.
Be aware that Quadro P6000 is a workstation card while Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) is a notebook one.
Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.
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