Maxwell GPU Surface Book and Radeon HD 7870M - video card comparison
Maxwell GPU Surface Book
Radeon HD 7870M
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Surface Book
Heathrow XT
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
October 2015
April 2012
Interface
-
PCIe 3.0 x16
Boost clock speed
993 MHz
-
Core clock speed
954 MHz
800 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
1,024 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
-
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
640
Power consumption (TDP)
-
45 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
32.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
5012 MHz
4000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
64 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
No outputs
DirectX
12 (FL 11_0)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
-
1.2
OpenGL
-
4.6
Shader Model
-
5.1
Vulkan
-
1.2.131
Optimus
+
-