The new CPU and GPU offer a significant increase in performance over the outgoing model.

As the scenes get less complex, the CPU becomes more of a bottleneck. UL’s 3DMark tests a couple of different scenarios, from the very complex Fire Strike down to Ice Storm Unlimited which can be run on smartphones. We’ll start with some synthetics and then move on to gaming workloads. You can of course compare these results against any other system we have tested using our Online Bench. Unfortunately, we’ve not had any mid-range gaming laptops recently to see where the GPU stacks up. We’d love to add some more productivity tests that can leverage the GPU as well, so if you have any feedback please reach out.Īs with the CPU tests, most of the notebooks the Surface Book 3 will be compared against will be Ultrabooks with no GPU. To see how the new Surface Book 3 fares in GPU tests, we’ve run it through our gaming workloads.

so from a TDP standpoint, the Quadro RTX 3000 is the next closest thing available. NVIDIA's notebook GPU stack is notably inconsistent between the GeForce and Quadro families, and the company doesn't have a true Quadro equivalent of the GTX 1660 Ti. That said, on paper the Quadro RTX 3000 is perhaps a bit too powerful for a device like the Surface Book 3 – it's almost certainly running at the lower-end of its TDP range to fit in here – which is a hint that there's more going on. From a hardware perspective the Quadro RTX 3000 is functionally equivalent to the GeForce RTX 2060, with 1920 CUDA Cores, so it is a bit of a surprise that Microsoft didn't make a GeForce RTX 2060 an option. This is an even more powerful GPU than the GTX 1660 Ti, so not only should you see better performance, but you get NVIDIA's RT cores as well. The new Turing-based GPUs don’t offer the ray-tracing hardware found on the RTX series, but are both a big step-up from the outgoing models in all other respects.įor the first time ever, Microsoft is also offering a Quadro option as well, with the Quadro RTX 3000. Meanwhile the bigger 15-inch Book 3 upgrades from the outgoing GTX 1060 to the GTX 1660 Ti. That’s a big upgrade over the outgoing GTX 1050 in the smaller Book. You can still opt for the 13.5-inch model without a GPU, or get it with the GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q. The original Surface Book shipped with a relatively meager GPU in the keyboard base, but Microsoft added the Performance Base as a mid-cycle refresh which redefined the Surface Book category.

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