Maxwell GPU Surface Book and Radeon HD 8650M - video card comparison

Maxwell GPU Surface Book

Radeon HD 8650M

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

GCN (2011−2017)

GPU code name

Surface Book

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Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

October 2015

January 2013

Boost clock speed

993 MHz

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Core clock speed

954 MHz

650 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

-

900 Million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

384

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

5012 MHz

4500 MHz

Shared memory

-

-

DirectX

12 (FL 11_0)

11.1

CUDA

+

-

Optimus

+

-