
Iris Xe Graphics G7 and Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) - video card comparison
Iris Xe Graphics G7
Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5)
Architecture
Gen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Tiger Lake Xe
Surface Book
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
August 2020
October 2015
Boost clock speed
-
993 MHz
Core clock speed
-
954 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
10 nm
28 nm
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
384
Memory type
DDR4
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
-
1 GB
Memory bus width
-
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
5012 MHz
Shared memory
+
-
DirectX
DirectX 12_1
DirectX 12 (FL 11_0), Shader 5.0
CUDA
-
+
Optimus
-
+
Quick Sync
+
-