GeForce RTX 5080 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 ranking707not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)Blackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code nameSurface BookGB203
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 October 2015 (9 years ago)2025

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 cores38410752
Core clock speed954 MHz2235 MHz
Boost clock speed993 MHz2520 MHz
Manufacturing process technology28 nm0 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data350 Watt
Texture fill rateno data846.7
Floating-point processing powerno data54.19 TFLOPS
ROPsno data128
TMUsno data336
Tensor Coresno data336
Ray Tracing Coresno data84

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 5.0 x16
Lengthno data304 mm
Widthno data3-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 16-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR7
Maximum RAM amount1 GB16 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed5012 MHz2500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data160.0 GB/s
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 data1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

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 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA+9.1

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 16 GB

RTX 5080 has a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) and GeForce RTX 5080. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 5080 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5)
Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
GeForce RTX 5080

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