Radeon 780M vs Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5)

Place in the ranking	707	297
Place by popularity	not in top-100	47
Power efficiency	no data	84.44
Architecture	Maxwell (2014−2017)	RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code name	Surface Book	Phoenix
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	1 October 2015 (9 years ago)	6 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 cores	384	768
Core clock speed	954 MHz	800 MHz
Boost clock speed	993 MHz	2700 MHz
Number of transistors	no data	25,390 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	no data	15 Watt
Texture fill rate	no data	129.6
Floating-point processing power	no data	8.294 TFLOPS
ROPs	no data	32
TMUs	no data	48
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	12

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).

Interface	no data	PCIe 4.0 x8
Width	no data	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

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	GDDR5	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	System Shared
Memory bus width	64 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz	System 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 Connectors

no data

Portable 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.

DirectX	DirectX 12 (FL 11_0), Shader 5.0	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	no data	6.7
OpenGL	no data	4.6
OpenCL	no data	2.1
Vulkan	-	1.3
CUDA	+	-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) 3.69

Radeon 780M 18.29
+396%

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) 2577

Radeon 780M 12785
+396%

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) 2076

Radeon 780M 7977
+284%

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) 11380

Radeon 780M 48105
+323%

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) 123411

Radeon 780M 429810
+248%

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	28 −32.1%	37 +32.1%
1440p	4−5 −450%	22 +450%
4K	2−3 −600%	14 +600%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	10−12 −273%	40−45 +273%
Battlefield 5	8−9 −650%	60−65 +650%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	8−9 −363%	35−40 +363%
Far Cry 5	7−8 −514%	40−45 +514%
Far Cry New Dawn	10−11 −390%	45−50 +390%
Forza Horizon 4	21−24 −448%	110−120 +448%
Red Dead Redemption 2	9−10 −444%	45−50 +444%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	14−16 −329%	60−65 +329%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	10−12 −273%	40−45 +273%
Battlefield 5	8−9 −650%	60−65 +650%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	8−9 −363%	35−40 +363%
Far Cry 5	7−8 −514%	40−45 +514%
Far Cry New Dawn	10−11 −390%	45−50 +390%
Forza Horizon 4	21−24 −448%	110−120 +448%
Metro Exodus	6−7 −950%	60−65 +950%
Red Dead Redemption 2	9−10 −444%	45−50 +444%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	14−16 −286%	54 +286%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	14−16 −180%	40−45 +180%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	10−12 −273%	40−45 +273%
Battlefield 5	8−9 −338%	35−40 +338%
Far Cry 5	7−8 −514%	40−45 +514%
Far Cry New Dawn	10−11 −350%	45−50 +350%
Forza Horizon 4	21−24 −448%	110−120 +448%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	14−16 −93.3%	29 +93.3%

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	3−4 −367%	14−16 +367%
Red Dead Redemption 2	7−8 −329%	30−33 +329%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	3−4 −533%	18−20 +533%
Battlefield 5	6−7 −350%	27−30 +350%
Far Cry 5	4−5 −425%	21−24 +425%
Far Cry New Dawn	6−7 −350%	27−30 +350%
Forza Horizon 4	2−3 −4900%	100−105 +4900%

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	1−2 −300%	4−5 +300%
Red Dead Redemption 2	4−5 −350%	18−20 +350%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3 −450%	10−12 +450%
Battlefield 5	2−3 −350%	9−10 +350%
Far Cry 5	2−3 −400%	10−11 +400%
Far Cry New Dawn	2−3 −350%	9−10 +350%
Forza Horizon 4	2−3 −1150%	24−27 +1150%

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

+0%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla	30−33 +0%	30−33 +0%
Cyberpunk 2077	31 +0%	31 +0%
Hitman 3	35−40 +0%	35−40 +0%
Horizon Zero Dawn	90−95 +0%	90−95 +0%
Metro Exodus	60−65 +0%	60−65 +0%
Watch Dogs: Legion	85−90 +0%	85−90 +0%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla	30−33 +0%	30−33 +0%
Cyberpunk 2077	24 +0%	24 +0%
Hitman 3	35−40 +0%	35−40 +0%
Horizon Zero Dawn	90−95 +0%	90−95 +0%
Watch Dogs: Legion	85−90 +0%	85−90 +0%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla	30−33 +0%	30−33 +0%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	35−40 +0%	35−40 +0%
Cyberpunk 2077	23 +0%	23 +0%
Hitman 3	35−40 +0%	35−40 +0%
Horizon Zero Dawn	53 +0%	53 +0%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	46 +0%	46 +0%
Watch Dogs: Legion	18 +0%	18 +0%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

45−50

+0%