NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book
The Nvidia Maxwell GPU is a dedicated graphics card in the Microsoft Surface Book laptop. It is based on the Maxwell GM108 chip as the Geforce 940M with 384 shaders. Instead of the DDR3 graphics memory, the Surface Book graphics card features faster GDDR5 memory (both 64 Bit though).
Thanks to the faster graphics memory, the Surface Book Geforce is performing better than the average GeForce 940M . However, the 945M and GTX 950M are still noticeably faster. Demanding games therefore only run in low settings fluently.
More details can be found in our extensive review of the 2015 Microsoft Surface Book with the dedicated Maxwell GPU .
GeForce 900M Series Codename Surface Book Architecture Maxwell Pipelines 384 - unified Core Speed 954 - 993 (Boost) MHz Memory Speed 5012 MHz Memory Bus Width 64 Bit Memory Type GDDR5 Max. Amount of Memory 1024 MB Shared Memory no API DirectX 12 (FL 11_0), Shader 5.0, OpenGL 4.5 technology 28 nm Features GPU Boost 2.0, Optimus, PhysX, CUDA, GeForce Experience Date of Announcement 01.10.2015
Benchmarks Performance Rating - 3DMark 11 + Fire Strike + Time Spy
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3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Score
min: 7424 avg: 7465 median: 7464.5 (8%) max: 7505 Points
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3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Graphics
min: 11340 avg: 11380 median: 11380 (3%) max: 11420 Points
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3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Score
min: 1886 avg: 1919 median: 1919 (3%) max: 1952 Points
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min: 54088 avg: 54397 median: 54397 (7%) max: 54706 Points
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3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance Score
min: 2711 avg: 2736 median: 2736 (4%) max: 2761 Points
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3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance GPU
min: 2548 avg: 2577 median: 2577 (2%) max: 2606 Points
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3DMark 06 3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x1024 +
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Cinebench R10 Cinebench R10 Shading (32bit) + Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Shading (32bit)
min: 5247 avg: 5704 median: 5703.5 (4%) max: 6160 points
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Cinebench R11.5 Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64 Bit + Cinebench R11.5 - Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64 Bit
min: 29.03 avg: 30.3 median: 30.3 (10%) max: 31.49 fps
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Cinebench R15 Cinebench R15 OpenGL 64 Bit + Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 OpenGL 64 Bit
min: 32.35 avg: 35 median: 35 (2%) max: 37.6 fps
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Cinebench R15 OpenGL Ref. Match 64 Bit + Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 OpenGL Ref. Match 64 Bit
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LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - LuxMark v2.0 Room GPU
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LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - LuxMark v2.0 Sala GPU
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ComputeMark v2.1 - ComputeMark v2.1 Result
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* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
Game Benchmarks The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.
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» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.
low med. high ultra QHD 4K Metal Gear Solid V 42 35.9 19.7 13.3 Batman: Arkham Knight 23 14 F1 2014 117 94 76 49 Thief 45.6 28.2 22.3 9.4 Metro: Last Light 59.6 44.7 30.7 15.7 BioShock Infinite 94.2 64.8 56.5 20.8 StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm 258 141.2 74.2 37.5 Tomb Raider 161.5 82.8 55.2 25.8 Sleeping Dogs 112.4 85.6 42.8 10.9 < 30 fps < 60 fps < 120 fps ≥ 120 fps 1 3 3 2 2 2 4 1 2 4 2 6 2
For more games that might be playable and a list of all games and graphics cards visit our Gaming List
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