Microsoft Surface Book Review > Performance: Benchmarks

Performance: Benchmarks

Let's have a wait at how the Surface Book, equipped with a Core i7-6600U, sixteen GB of RAM, a 512 GB Samsung NVMe SSD and Nvidia GeForce 940M, performs in benchmarks. For all of these benchmarks, the Nvidia GPU was gear up to the preferred graphics processor unless stated otherwise.

In our CPU performance tests, the Surface Book's i7-6600U delivered small operation gains over the concluding generation i7-5600U. In Cinebench and our x264 encoding benchmark, these gains were around seven percent, although in that location was a performance reduction in WinRAR. CPU functioning is still well behind Intel's four-core mobile fries, but if you're coming from a Cadre i5 Broadwell organization similar the XPS 13, expect gains of around 25% in video encoding.

Cheers to the increased memory bandwidth available from DDR4 RAM, the Surface Book dominates the memory bandwidth performance charts.

With an Nvidia GeForce 940M within, the Surface Book records approximately double the performance of the system with only integrated graphics. The GPU isn't the beefiest chip going around, so a terminal-generation GeForce GTX 860M is around 45% faster, only information technology will suffice for most productivity workloads.

Is information technology possible to game on the Surface Book? Well, information technology depends on what sort of games and quality settings you're willing to put upward with.

High-operation games like Metro: Last Light and BioShock Infinite, fifty-fifty though they're not the latest titles, won't run at maximum quality settings on 1080p or the Surface Book's native resolution. But if you're willing to turn down the quality settings to medium and reduce the resolution by around fifty%, games will begin to exist playable.

Lower-intensity titles, including Skyrim (at lower quality settings), the Lego series of games, and Portal 2, can run well on the Surface Book with the dedicated graphics scrap pulling its weight. The Surface Volume definitely isn't a gaming auto, even with the 940M inside, though it's more than capable of the odd casual game than a similar laptop with only Intel'southward integrated graphics within.