In our first gaming benchmark the Surface Laptop Studio does surpass the Surface Book 3, although not by a wide margin on the 1920x1080 resolution. Again, the Surface Book 3 slightly outperforms here. GFXBench 5.0 includes DirectX 12 tests for Aztec Ruins, and as a multi-platform test it is quite a light workload for any laptop with a discrete GPU. Fire Strike is the most demanding of the older test suite, and here the Surface Book with its GTX 1660 Ti slightly outperforms the Surface Laptop Studio, but on Sky Diver and Cloud Gate the tables are turned significantly. We are migrating the laptop suite over to the latest Time Spy test, so for now the Surface Laptop Studio is the only device tested. Please note that we have recently updated the suite with several new games, so until we test more devices there are limited results on those new titles.Īs usual, we will start with some synthetic tests, then move on to gaming results. To see how the Surface Laptop Studio performs in graphical tests it was run through our laptop gaming suite. Built on the 8 nm Samsung process, this Ampere-based GPU brings all the latest RTX features to the Surface Laptop Studio with 80 tensor cores and 20 ray tracing cores and is the first time Microsoft has fitted an RTX GPU into one of their devices since the Surface Book 3 was outfitted with the GTX 1660 Ti. The 128-bit memory bus clearly puts it at a disadvantage compared to the RTX 3060/3070/3080, but the lowered TDP means that it fits into smaller and lighter devices, such as the Surface Laptop Studio. The NVIDIA RTX 3050 Ti was announced earlier this year and features 2560 CUDA cores. Microsoft provided the Core i7 model for review, which comes with the discrete GPU option, so that will be the focus of this review. Microsoft also continues the tradition of the Surface Book by also offering a model without the dGPU, which they have found has been popular in certain segments such as education where the dGPU is not needed. Although not a gaming laptop by any stretch, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop graphics is a stout GPU for a notebook of this size.
As the successor to the Surface Book, the Surface Laptop Studio builds on that heritage by continuing to offer a reasonably powerful GPU in a small form factor laptop.
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