Oct 22, 2015 the surface book, unlike surface pro 4, is an entirely different animal. Oct 19, 2015 according to a source who has managed to open up system information on nvidias control panel on the surface book, the notebook is listed with a 64bit wide gpu, 1024mb of memory and 324 cuda. Microsoft is putting a compatibility hold on its windows 10 may 2019 update for some of its surface book 2 laptops due to an issue where the discrete nvidia gpu can vanish from. Yet the detail of which has been suspiciously absent. I write comments on the german computerbase hardware forumcommunity and just revealed in an article that the surface book nvidia gpu added to the pricier versions of the surface book is equivalent to the gtx 940m chip from nvidia, limited to 1gb of gddr5 vram only though, which will be sufficient for old game titles such as. The actual gpu is described by microsoft to be a custom maxwell processor, but looking at gpuz on the.
I got a surface book recently and have been loving it ever since, using it every day for digital drawing and games. Nov 22, 2016 it depends on the app and if it supports hardware acceleration by the gpu. This surface packs in an intel quadcore i78650u processor, 16gb of ram, a 512gb ssd, and separate graphics processing using a nvidia geforce gtx 1050 gpu with 2gb of video ram. On october 26, 2016, microsoft announced an updated surface book with a new nvidia geforce gtx 965m gpu and additional battery life over the original. Apr 26, 2016 a firmware update is available to improve the performance of the nvidia geforce display adapter in the surface book. Other than that, the strikingly similar design carries on to the surface books sequel. Only intel hd graphic card is detected on device manager menu. We recommend that you select yes to help ensure that your drivers have been signed by a publisher that has verified their authenticity. Zany design and detachable screen aside, one of the main reasons for that is that it manages to squeeze a discrete gpu into a laptop the size and. For more information about surface book update history, see surface book update history. It seems to go away if i just detach and reconnect. Details of nvidia gpu in microsoft surface book revealed.
The tablet is rigid enough to resist any twisting or depressions on even a minor scale. This is the major connections component of the keyboard. Per notebookcheck, the 940m is roughly equivalent to the currently available iris pro. Microsoft didnt announce the model name of the geforce processor as they have built a custom gpu for surface book working with nvidia. Here is one killer selling point of surface book that no one. Take a closer look at how surface book 2 is the ultimate laptop for running office apps and demanding graphics software, and writing and navigating with surface pen and touch.
Oct 16, 2019 the surface book 2 comes equipped with an nvidia gtx 1050 gpu, a step up from the previous models gtx 965m and a common chip for entrylevel gaming systems and faster productivity machines. The surface book 2 15 has equivalent build quality, a better keyboard, similar touchpad quality, and far better dedicated graphics with the nvidia 1060 6gb versus the radeon 560 4gb. Surface book gpu comparable to 940m, includes 1gb ram enthusiasts leak surface book gpu specs, and they look familiar sean ridgeley oct 20, 2015 at 11. The surface book is purported to be the most powerful laptop ever created with the best nvidia gpu ever sold and yet the performance is miserable in fusion360 such that i need to just move back to my. Unveiled by microsoft devices cvp panos panay to an audience of hundreds of press and analysts in new york, the surface book features a maxwell architecture powered geforce gpu nestled snugly into a detachable keyboard base. Nvidia gpu on board the microsoft surface book uncovered by tim harmer comments 22. While all surface books come with a keyboard, microsofts highestend models have all shipped with a discrete gpu. Sure, thats a nice bonus over integrated graphics, but the gpu really plays to other applications that need more. Similarly impressive is the gpu s placement and what that means for the laptop the chipset is situated in the surface book s keyboard dock. Using i5 and i7 without any indication of the clock rate, tdp, or model number is erroneous. Microsoft surface book comes with 384 cuda cores hinting at. New color now available in platinum and the new matte black. The chip is really designed for poweruser productivity scenarios.
In its marketing materials, the software giant said that the device has the full power of. If microsoft uses a standalone graphics processor in its next generation surface book, i would expect it to be based on the upcoming gp108 chip rather than on gp106 or even gp107. This is how surface books crazy hinge works the verge. Nvidia posted an article on its blog yesterday specifically for the surface book, but that did not help matters either. With the discrete graphics chip in tow, the surface book can play rocket league at 30 frames per. It seems that roughly, 5mv of undervolt is equivalent to about 1 point on. The custom nvidia graphics card in the new surface book isnt really intended for gaming, but dont let that stop you. I found that this new system cant find the nvidia graphic card geforce gtx 965m.
Nov 10, 2015 with surface book, there is more of an opportunity here. I just got a brand new super expensive microsoft surface book and fusion360s performance is awful. Framerates are average and game settings are as follows. Microsoft didnt announce the model name of the geforce processor as they have built a custom gpu for surface book working. If you want a oneofakind notebook, then the surface book is the first to offer a dedicated nvidia gpu in the keyboard dock. So, as of now, id assume the geforce gtx 960m is the most probable gpu on the surface book, until microsoft or nvidia comes out with the exact name. How to force apps to run on the dgpu on my surface book quora. The surface book 2 was released in 2017 with a couple of generation skips. The spectre x360 15 is, therefore, the faster machine than the surface book on processorintensive tasks, and roughly equivalent in graphics to the standard surface book models with discrete gpu. Microsoft surface book 2 specs powerhouse performance surface. Nvidias current pascal gpu didnt make it into the new surface book but microsoft. The original surface book is still a compelling laptop, even in the face of. New pro design its the thinnest surface pro ever at just 7. Surface book, microsofts first laptop, highlights visual.
This means were looking at a gm108 core inside the book, built on a. Microsoft surface book nvidia geforce gpu details emerge. Microsofts new surface book laptop sports geforce gpu. The gpu board is home to the nvidia n16slg custom geforce gpu as well as 1gb worth of ram. Oct 21, 2015 the surface book doesnt hold up to its stated battery performance of 12 hours at least in the model with the dedicated gpu. It will be on an app by app basis there is no way in windows, mac os, or linux to automate gpu functions for a specific app. If you have an i7 surface book, there are two main motivations to undervolt your cpu. Mosiso keyboard cover compatible with microsoft surface laptop 2 2018, surface laptop 2017, surface book 21. Microsoft promised performance improvements but we are disappointed. Microsoft surface book with performance base gtx 965m. Nov 05, 2015 the discrete gpu or dgpu found in select surface book models is an nvidia geforce. The surface book 2 comes equipped with an nvidia gtx 1050 gpu, a step up from the previous models gtx 965m and a common chip for entry. Microsoft launched the surface pro 4 tablet hybrid and surprised us with the new surface book 2in1 at an event on 6 th october.
The base of this updated surface book is also thicker than the original. Oct 20, 2015 the specifications indicate that the gpu inside the surface book is a slightly underclocked variant of nvidias geforce 940m. If you want a oneofakind notebook, then the surface book is the first to offer a dedicated nvidia gpu in the keyboard dock to power an equally unique 3. Microsofts surface book has a custom gtx 950mlike gpu microsoft surface book. Microsoft has worked with amd and qualcomm to coengineer new surface processors. The discrete gpu or dgpu found in select surface book models is an nvidia geforce. The specifications indicate that the gpu inside the surface book is a slightly underclocked variant of nvidias geforce 940m. Ive been having some problems with the surface book gpu not registering correctly. We all know microsoft surface book can be bought with a discrete gpu.
Surface book gpu comparable to 940m, includes 1gb ram tweaktown. My surface book 2 is sleek, fast, innovative, and i hate it digital. As someone who uses both windows 10 and macos regularly, microsoft has finally done it and created a true windows alternative to the macbook pro 15. Awful gpu performance on surface book autodesk community. This comparison is with the ipad air since it has similar specifications and at. Testing conducted by microsoft in april 2020 using preproduction software and preproduction configurations of surface jones. Mar 07, 2017 microsoft has trimmed the price on its highestend surface book flagships by ditching the discrete gpu, but its core i5 hardware is now the same price whether you buy a gpu or not. Microsofts surface book has a custom gtx 950mlike gpu microsoft surface book vs. One of the main interest among those who planning to buy surface book is the actual performance of the discrete gpu. Oct 06, 2015 microsoft has taken aim at apples macbook line with its own 2in1 surface book, a. The surface book uses a gpu built into the keyboard when its docked, so the tablet wont become detachable until windows finishes up whatever its working on and switches over to the tablets. Microsoft surface book 2 keyboard dock base microsoft.
Nvidia gpu on board the microsoft surface book uncovered. Like the surface pro 4, the new surface book uses metaloxide technology probably sharps igzo as a replacement for. Nov 10, 2015 the actual gpu is described by microsoft to be a custom maxwell processor, but looking at gpuz on the surface book pretty clearly shows it to be about equivalent to the gt 940m. The gpu in the surface book isnt just about gaming, pcworld adds. Compatibility problem of nvidia graphic card on surface. Microsoft surface book 2 keyboard dock base replacement. Meanwhile, the dedicated nvidia gpu in the surface book far exceeds both to provide the better gaming experience. Microsoft launches less expensive flagship surface book.
Get the best surface laptop for pc gaming titles like sea of thieves and playerunknowns battlegrounds with the latest intel core processors and nvidia. Microsoft pulls windows 10 may update from some surface book 2. The tiny surface book design secrets microsoft didnt talk. If you opt for the model with the nvidia gpu, you gain access to cuda, which is nvidias parallel computing platform. I updated win10 to a new version, 1709, on my surface book with performance base, last week. Better performance its now 67 percent faster than the surface pro 5th gen. Jan 27, 2020 plugging the display into the keyboard base unlocks even more performance from the dedicated gpu.
The base surface books integrated graphics are delivered by an intel hd graphics 520 processor, built into the silicon of the core i5 or core i7 cpu par for the course for a thin and light notebook, with more than enough power for video decoding and web browsing and entrylevel gaming. Theres an sq1 processor for the surface pro x and a surface ryzen edition processor inside the 15inch surface. Everything you need to know about unleashing the power of surface book 2 can be found right here. I have a surface book with dgpu, how do i tell if its working. At the microsoft windows 10 event on october 26, 2016, microsoft announced a version of the surface book that contained an updated nvidia geforce gtx 965m discrete gpu along with an additional 1 gb of gddr5 video memory meaning the new surface book now has 2 gb of vram instead of 1 gb. Now, full tech specs of this new gpu was revealed and it is almost same as geforce gtx 940m in terms of power and performance. Microsoft surface book 2 specs powerhouse performance. See our dedicated gpu pages for the surface book gpu. While testing halo wars definitive edition on my surface book, i noticed that it wasnt using the powerful discrete nvidia gpu, defaulting instead to the integrated graphics. The surface laptop 2 isnt a gaming system by any means. I cant see it in dxdiag, device manager, and games and 3d applications just report the intel 520. Okay now we have some detailed information of sb gpu. Ibm, intel, interdigital, jabil circuit, konica minolta, lattice semiconductor.
This update addresses graphical issues that you may encounter in several popular games and applications. Hidden beneath the keyboard is a customized nvidia geforce gpu that. Microsoft unveiled surface book, the software giants first laptop computer, tuesday. Using another major comment microsoft made during surface book introduction perhaps help us get the real performance of the gpu. The surface books nvidia gpu is reportedly a geforce 940m.
Microsoft has only mentioned that it is a nvidia geforce graphics processor and they didnt reveal any technical specifications of it. The skylake version, not yet released, should be substantially faster. Love it or hate it, microsoft surface book is a versatile 2in1 hybrid machine that packs impressive hardware and portability, even though it will still cost you quite a bit. Tech specs of custom nvidia gpu in microsoft surface book. You will learn how to replace repair the gpu board. Up to 10% increased performance if you run heavily threaded loads that drive the total package power over 15w from more than 30 seconds at a time. Similarly impressive is the gpus placement and what that means for the laptop the chipset is situated in the surface books keyboard dock. The new gpu is a maxwellbased gpu, and was designed to deliver the best performance in ultrathin form factors such as the surface book keyboard dock. I cant seem to tell if the gpu on the surface book is active or not. The surface books best hidden feature is its upgradability.
Microsoft surface book keyboard gpu board replacement. You can buy only botom part in casre of your keyboard part not working. How to max out the intel hd graphics on surface book and. Microsoft updates surface line with meaningful additions forbes. How to max out the intel hd graphics on surface book and surface pro 4. The first time you use the directx diagnostic tool, you might be asked whether you want to check if your drivers are digitally signed. Our browsing test flips through a few websites, a video, and. Just how fast is the surface book compared to the macbook. Ive compared game performance, across a few titles, using an 840m from which the 940m is rebranded, the surface books integrated gen9 hd 520, and the discrete surface book gpu. Trying to increase dedicated vram on surface laptop need help hey all, ive got here a surface laptop with an intel 7200u, intel hd 620, 8 gb ddr3 ram, and running windows 10 pro.
A firmware update is available to improve the performance of the nvidia geforce display adapter in the surface book. With a distinct lack of gameready graphics hardware in most inch laptops, that immediately caught the attention of pc gamers. Nvidia geforce gtx 960m graphics card for the surface book. Nvidia gpu sometimes not recognized by surface book. Microsoft surface book 2 keyboard dock base with 2gb nvidia gpu microsoft surface book intel core i5, 8gb ram, 128gb, used. The surface book doesnt hold up to its stated battery performance of 12 hours at least in the model with the dedicated gpu. Gpurelated oddities, and the general tendency for surface devices to exhibit early. Far from being just another macbook pro, though, the surface book has.
One of the big selling points of microsofts new surface book laptop is that it offers an optional nvidia graphics card in higherend models. I have been trying to test its limits graphics wise for games and such, but one thing keeps on worrying me. Here is one killer selling point of surface book that no. Im trying to increase dedicated vram currently set to default 128 mb, and ive tried the first two solutions i could find.
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