General info
The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Ellesmere and NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5). Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.
Technical specs
Choose the best graphics card between AMD Ellesmere and NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.
Memory
Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Ellesmere and NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) can be seen in this section.
Technologies
The difference between AMD Ellesmere and NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) is the additional functionality.
API support
The difference in supported APIs is AMD Ellesmere and NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5). Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.
Gaming performance
Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Ellesmere and NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Ellesmere or NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) good for gaming.
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| Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) | AMD Ellesmere | ||||||
| NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) | |||||||
| Death Stranding (2020) | AMD Ellesmere | ||||||
| NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) | |||||||
| F1 2020 (2020) | AMD Ellesmere | ||||||
| NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) | |||||||
| Gears Tactics (2020) | AMD Ellesmere | ||||||
| NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) | |||||||
| Doom Eternal (2020) | AMD Ellesmere | ||||||
| NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) | |||||||
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| 5 | Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags. |
| May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags. | |
| 30 | Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps) |
| 40 | Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps) |
| 60 | Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps) |
| May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game. | |
| ? | Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation. |
| Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible. | |
| The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results. | |
Advantages of AMD Ellesmere
More pipelines (2304 vs 384)
Finer manufacturing process technology (14 nm vs 28 nm)
Advantages of NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5)
9.88% faster in synthetic tests
So, AMD Ellesmere or NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5)?
Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) .
AMD Ellesmere versus NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) performance benchmarks comparison
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