NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book vs Apple M1 Max 32-Core GPU vs Apple M1 8-Core GPU
NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book
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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.
Apple M1 Max 32-Core GPU
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The Apple M1 Max 32-Core-GPU is an integrated graphics card by Apple offering all 32 cores in the M1 Max Chip. The 4,096 ALUs offer a theoretical performance of up to 10.4 Teraflops.
The graphics card has no dedicated graphics memory but can use the fast LPDDR5-6400 unified memory with a 512 bit bus (up to 400 GBit/s).
The GPU clocks between 389 and 1296 MHz and offers no short term boost (389, 486, 648, 778, 972, 1296 MHz steps according to Powermetrics). The GPU is intended to use Apple Metal 2 API and could still be based on the older PowerVR architectures (last used in the Apple A10).
The Apple M1 Max is manufactured in the modern 5nm process at TSMC and offers an excellent energy efficiency.
Apple M1 8-Core GPU
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The Apple M1 GPU is an integrated graphics card offering 8 cores (1 deactivated core in the entry MacBook Air) designed by Apple and integrated in the Apple M1 SoC. According to Apple it is faster and more energy efficient as competing products (like the Tiger Lake Xe GPU). The peak performance of the high end variant is 2.6 teraflops and thanks to the unified memory architecture it should have fast access to the RAM.
The Apple M1 is manufactured in the modern 5nm process at TSMC and should offer an excellent energy efficiency. According to internal tools, the M1 GPU uses under load approximately 10 Watt (11.5 Watt package power including the RAM).
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| Codename | Surface Book | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Architecture | Maxwell | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pipelines | 384 - unified | 32 - unified | 8 - unified | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Core Speed | 954 - 993 (Boost) MHz | 1296 MHz | 1278 MHz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Memory Speed | 5012 MHz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Memory Bus Width | 64 Bit | 512 Bit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | LPDDR5-6400 | LPDDR4X-4266 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Max. Amount of Memory | 1024 MB | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shared Memory | no | no | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| API | DirectX 12 (FL 11_0), Shader 5.0, OpenGL 4.5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| technology | 28 nm | 5 nm | 5 nm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Features | GPU Boost 2.0, Optimus, PhysX, CUDA, GeForce Experience | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of Announcement | 01.10.2015 | 10.11.2020 | 10.11.2020 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Theoretical Performance | 10.4 TFLOPS FP32 | 2.6 TFLOPS FP32 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Memory Bandwidth | 400 GB/s | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power Consumption | 44 Watt | 10 Watt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Link to Manufacturer Page | www.apple.com |
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Benchmarks
Cinebench R15 OpenGL 64 Bit + NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book
GFXBench T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16 + Apple M1 Max 32-Core GPU
Average Benchmarks NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book → 100% n=2
Average Benchmarks Apple M1 Max 32-Core GPU → 185% n=2
Average Benchmarks Apple M1 8-Core GPU → 178% n=2
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
1 This benchmark is not used for the average calculation
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.
League of Legends: Wild Rift
2020
Borderlands 3
2019
PUBG Mobile
2018
World of Tanks Blitz
2018
Metal Gear Solid V
2015
F1 2014
2014
Thief
2014
Metro: Last Light
2013
BioShock Infinite
2013
Tomb Raider
2013
Sleeping Dogs
2012Average Gaming NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book → 100%
Average Gaming 30-70 fps → 100%
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| low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | ||||
| League of Legends: Wild Rift | 60 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Call of Duty Mobile | 60 | 60 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Genshin Impact | 60 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Armajet | 60 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Borderlands 3 | 66 | 54 | 47 | 40 | 33 | 20.6 | 48 | 29 | 20 | ||||||||||||
| Total War: Three Kingdoms | 247 | 129 | 82 | 60 | 39 | 20 | 98 | 35 | 22 | 15 | |||||||||||
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 140 | 104 | 97 | 88 | 61 | 33 | 69 | 32 | 30 | 38 | |||||||||||
| PUBG Mobile | 39 | 40 | 42 | ||||||||||||||||||
| World of Tanks Blitz | 59 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Rise of the Tomb Raider | 39.6 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | < 30 fps < 60 fps < 120 fps ≥ 120 fps | | | | | | | < 30 fps < 60 fps < 120 fps ≥ 120 fps | 1 2 | 1 1 1 | 1 2 | 1 2 | 2 1 | 2 1 | < 30 fps < 60 fps < 120 fps ≥ 120 fps | 2 2 | 1 2 | 2 3 2 | 1 3 3 | | |
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