I ran various benchmarks on Microsoft's 7th generation Surface Laptop



We ran various benchmarks to see what kind of performance the 7th generation Surface Laptop equipped with Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite has.

Introducing the new Copilot+ PC, Surface Laptop (7th Generation) | Microsoft Surface

https://www.microsoft.com/ja-jp/surface/devices/surface-laptop-7th-edition

The appearance information of the 7th generation Surface Laptop is published in the following article. The same model is used for benchmarking, with a screen size of 15 inches.

Photo review of Microsoft's 7th generation Surface Laptop with AI processing-specialized NPU and Snapdragon X Elite - GIGAZINE



◆Specifications
First, I checked the CPU information with

CPU-Z . The CPU is a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite with 12 cores and 12 threads. The GPU is a Qualcomm Adreno GPU X1E80100.



I wanted to check the GPU information in detail using '

GPU-Z ', but I was unable to obtain the information because it said 'This graphics device is not supported.'



When I checked the storage information on '

CrystalDiskInfo ', I found that it was equipped with a 1TB SSD made by Samsung. Other capacities available are 256GB and 512GB.



When I checked the NPU information in the task manager, it said 'Qualcomm Hexagon NPU'.



◆Benchmark
Next, we performed benchmark tests. First, we measured the storage transfer speed with '

CrystalDiskMark '. The results were 3659.83MB/s sequential read, 2937.89MB/s sequential write, 374.96MB/s random read, and 463.13MB/s random write. It's not particularly fast, but it's not slow either.



When we ran '

CrystalMark Retro ', the overall score was '3311', the CPU single-core score was '7520', and the multi-core score was '88490'.



We used

Geekbench 6 Pro to benchmark the CPU and GPU.

First, the CPU benchmark results were a single-core score of 2389 and a multi-core score of 13451.



The detailed score for the SingScore was 2346 for integer operations and 2471 for floating point operations.



Similarly, the multi-core score details were 12345 for integer operations and 15775 for floating point operations.



Next, the GPU benchmark results. The OpenCL score was 18616.



The OpenCL score breakdown looks like this:



Vulkan's score was '21564'.



The Vulkan score breakdown looks like this:



'

Passmark PerformanceTest V11 ' calculates an overall score by performing five types of measurements: CPU, 2D, 3D, memory, and disk. A feature of this software is that it allows you to visually compare the results of previous measurements within the software, so we ran both the x86 version, which has been used extensively in the past, and the ARM version, which has not yet been used much. The score is based on the best value out of three runs.

First, the x86 version. The overall score was 3694, which puts it in the 42% percentile of the overall benchmark results using this software. It's almost in the middle.



Here are the results compared with the past Surface series, Surface Laptop 4, Surface Laptop 5, Surface Go 4, Surface Laptop Go 3, and the ASUS Vivobook S 15, which is the same Copilot+ PC as this machine. Despite being an emulation, it has the same scores as the Laptop 4 and Laptop 5.



The CPU score was '14243', with a percentile of 51%.



Since it is an emulation, the CPU column is written as 'Virtual @ 3.41GHz'. There is a difference in the score compared to the Vivobook, which was also running emulation, but I was not able to tell if this was due to a difference in the x86 conversion layer or what. The Windows version for the 7th generation Surface Laptop was 'Windows 11 version 24H2 (OS build 26100.1000)', and for the Vivobook it was 'Windows 11 version 24H2 (OS build 26100.863)'.



The 2D graphics score was '253', which is in the 18% percentile.



Here's a comparison with other models. Although it doesn't get as high a score as Intel's Iris Xe graphics, it does get a higher score than Intel UHD graphics.



The 3D graphics score was 2581, which is in the 28th percentile.



There wasn't much difference in score between this model and the other models listed here.



Memory score is 2814. Percentile is 55%.



In terms of memory, the score was high, along with the Vivobook, which is also a Copilot+PC.



The disk score is 26628, which is in the 80th percentile, so it's quite high.



When compared with other models, it stands out along with the Vivobook.



Next, the results for the ARM version. The overall score was 3684, with a percentile of 42%, almost the same as when the x86 version was run.



Comparison was only made with the ASUS Vivobook S 15, which also has the same ARM architecture.



The CPU score was '27241', with a percentile of 81%, which is quite high.



The comparison results look like this.



The 2D graphics score was 264, with a percentile of 21%, which is a little low.



It should be equipped with the same Snapdragon X Elite, but there is a difference with the Vivobook.



3D graphics score was '2115', percentile was 25%.



Unlike the 2D, it got almost the same score as the Vivobook.



The memory score was 4249, which is in the 99th percentile, placing it in the top 1%.



The comparison results look like this, with the Vivobook also being a bit pricey.



The disk's score was 26442. The percentile was high at 80%.



The comparison results were as follows.

The requirements for Copilot+ PC include an NPU of 40 TOPS or more, but the NPU is not measured in Passmark PerformanceTest, so unfortunately it cannot be compared.



Next, I ran the '

FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION Benchmark, ' which has long been known as 'All Right Bench.' Note that Windows 11 is not included in the list of supported operating systems.



Below are the results of running 'Light Quality', 'Standard Quality', and 'High Quality' at full screen at four resolutions each. As expected, since this is not a device primarily intended for playing games, the operation is heavy at any resolution other than the minimum.

Quality/Resolution 3840×2160 2560×1440 1920×1080 1280×720
Lightweight quality 1362 (Difficult to operate) 2321 (heavy) 3192(Regular) 5793 (somewhat comfortable)
Average quality 1063 (Difficult to operate) 1812 (Difficult to operate) 2431 (heavy) 4855 (somewhat comfortable)
high quality 781 (Difficult to operate) 1219 (Difficult to operate) 1534 (Difficult to operate) 2275 (heavy)


'We also ran

the Final Fantasy XIV: Golden Legacy benchmark
. This benchmark has five quality settings, and the resolution can be set to any resolution your PC can handle, which means there are a huge number of possible combinations, so we ran it at a resolution of 1920x1080 only.



The results are as follows, with all quality except the highest being 'average.'

Quality/Resolution 1920×1080
Standard Note 5151(Regular)
Standard Desktop 5565(Normal)
High Quality Notes 5109(Normal)
High Quality Desktop 4455(Normal)
Best Quality 3090 (recommended setting change)


We will continue to measure battery life, heat, noise, etc. and compile information.

Continued

I tried running Microsoft's genuine local image generation AI on the Copilot+ PC-certified '7th generation Surface Laptop' and checked whether practical applications such as Photoshop and ATOK work - GIGAZINE



in Review,   Hardware, Posted by logc_nt