I benchmarked with a lightweight high-speed notebook PC 'Surface Laptop 5' and compared it with 'Surface Laptop 4'



Since the latest model “ Surface Laptop 5 ” of “Microsoft Surface” released in October 2022 has arrived,

I opened it, ran various benchmarks, and compared it with the previous model “ Surface Laptop 4 ”.

Surface Laptop 5: Fast and light laptop with touchscreen | Microsoft Surface
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/surface-laptop-5/8xn49v61s1bn

Information such as the appearance and included items of Microsoft Laptop 5 is summarized in the following articles.

High-speed mobile PC 'Microsoft Surface Laptop 5' with Intel 12th generation processor & touch screen opened - GIGAZINE



◆ Contents

・ 1: Measure the processing power of CPU and GPU with 'Geekbench 5'
・ 2: Verify game performance with 'FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION Benchmark'
3: Measure performance with 'PassMark PerformanceTest' and compare with Surface Laptop 4

◆ 1: Measure the processing power of CPU and GPU with 'Geekbench 5'
The system information etc. acquired when ' Geekbench 5 ' is started are like this. The OS is Windows 11 Home (64bit), and the installed memory is 32GB (DDR5 SDRAM). The processor is Intel's 12th generation Core processor, Core i7-1255U (2.6 GHz).



The result of the CPU benchmark is that the single core score is ``1199'' (encryption: 3003 / integer arithmetic: 1044 / floating point arithmetic: 1234), the multicore score is ``6676'' (encryption: 6607 / integer arithmetic: 6548 / floating Decimal point operation: 6965). The AMD Ryzen 7 3780U (2.0HGz)-equipped Surface laptop 4, which will be released in the spring of 2021, has a score of 561 for single core and 4096 for multi-core, which is significantly higher.



The benchmark result of GPU (Intel Iris Xe graphics) is '17761' in OpenCL.



In Vulkan it was '16499'.



The Surface laptop 4 was equipped with AMD Radeon graphics, with an OpenCL score of 14745 and a Vulkan score of 17896.

◆ 2: Verify game performance with 'FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION Benchmark'
Next, in order to check the gaming performance, I ran '

FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION Benchmark ' while switching the drawing resolution and graphic quality.



The results are as follows. The operation during the benchmark is also really heavy, and it is basically not suitable for playing heavyweight games.

drawing resolution graphic quality Score evaluation
1920×1080 pixels high quality 1535 difficult to operate
1920×1080 pixels standard quality 1844 difficult to operate
1920×1080 pixels lightweight quality 2900 somewhat heavy
1280×720 pixels high quality 2079 heavy
1280×720 pixels standard quality 3141 usually
1280×720 pixels lightweight quality 4070 usually


◆ 3: Measure performance with 'PassMark PerformanceTest' and compare with Surface Laptop 4
I also tried running '

PassMark PerformanceTest
' which benchmarks with 5 items: CPU, 2D graphics, 3D graphics, memory, and disk.

The overall score is '3428'. This ranks in the top 43% of the scores compiled by PassMark PerformanceTest. However, the world average is 4335, so it is slightly below the average.



Comparing the score with Surface Laptop 4 (top), it looks like this. The score of Surface Laptop 4 is '4712', surpassing Surface Laptop 5.



Surface Laptop 4 also wins the CPU score.



2D graphics are almost double score for Surface Laptop 4.



However, 3D graphics are reversed by Surface Laptop 5.



Surface Laptop 5 also wins memory.



As for the disk, Surface Laptop 5 made a big difference to 4. The total score difference seems to be mainly due to the CPU performance.



Next, we verified the driving time of the battery and whether it was hot enough to be taken out and used on the lap.

・Continued

What is the result of actually measuring the battery duration of 'Microsoft Surface Laptop 5', which is stylish and speedy? -GIGAZINE



in Review,   Hardware, Posted by logc_nt