Xe DG1 (iDG1LP) Mobile vs Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	712	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Maxwell (2014−2017)	Gen. 12 Xe (2020)
GPU code name	Surface Book	iDG1LPDEV
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	1 October 2015 (9 years ago)	1 March 2020 (4 years 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	96
Core clock speed	954 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	993 MHz	1500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	14 nm

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	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	3 GB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz	no data
Shared memory	-	-

Supported technologies

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

Optimus

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API compatibility

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

DirectX	DirectX 12 (FL 11_0), Shader 5.0	no data
CUDA	+	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	1 October 2015	1 March 2020
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	3 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	14 nm

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