Maxwell GPU Surface Book and Radeon R3 (Mullins/Beema) - video card comparison

Maxwell GPU Surface Book

Radeon R3 (Mullins/Beema)

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

GCN 1.1 (2014)

GPU code name

Surface Book

Beema/Mullins

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

October 2015

April 2014

Boost clock speed

993 MHz

686 MHz

Core clock speed

954 MHz

350 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

28 nm

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

128

Memory type

GDDR5

-

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

-

Memory bus width

64 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

5012 MHz

-

Shared memory

-

+

DirectX

12 (FL 11_0)

12 (FL 12_0)

CUDA

+

-

Optimus

+

-