Arc Graphics 112EU Mobile vs Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking712not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)Xe-LPG (2023)
GPU code nameSurface BookMeteor Lake GT1
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 October 2015 (9 years ago)14 December 2023 (less than a year 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 cores384896
Core clock speed954 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed993 MHz2200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology28 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data65 Watt
Texture fill rateno data123.2
Floating-point processing powerno data3.942 TFLOPS
ROPsno data24
TMUsno data56

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 dataRing Bus

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed5012 MHzSystem Shared
Shared memory-+

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 Connectorsno dataPortable Device Dependent

Supported technologies

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

Optimus+-

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX 12 (FL 11_0), Shader 5.012 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2015 14 December 2023
Chip lithography 28 nm 10 nm

Arc Graphics 112EU Mobile has an age advantage of 8 years, and a 180% more advanced lithography process.

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NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5)
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Intel Arc Graphics 112EU Mobile
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