PC World - USA (2020-01)

JANUARY 2020 PCWorld 79

We test using a

series of synthetic and

real-world

benchmarks,

beginning with the

PCMark test suite.

We’ve selected three:

the PCMark 8 Work

and Creative tests, as

well as the updated

PCMark 10 benchmark.

Both of the former tests

are somewhat older.

The Work benchmark

focuses on office tasks,

while the Creative

benchmark leans more

heavily into mainstream

gaming, video editing,

and photo processing.

We’d expect to see

substantive gains over

the Surface Laptop 2.

Surprisingly, only the

Creative benchmark

produced those

results. The Work test

is where Intel’s Ice Lake

PCMark 10 is a benchmark tracking everything from how fast apps start up,
to photo editing, to spreadsheets. It’s a good overall marker for everyday PC
performance, and the Surface Laptop 3 (Core i7) comes out on top.

Microsoft Surface Laptop 3

Perf (Core i7-1065G7)

Microsoft Surface Laptop 3

(Core i7-1065G7)

Huaw(Core i5-8265U)ei Matebook 13

MPerf icrosoft Surface Laptop 3 (Ryzen 7 3780U SE)

Acer Sw(Core i7-8565U)ift 3 (2019)

M(Ryzen 7 3780U SE)icrosoft Surface Laptop 3

Microsoft Surface Laptop 3

(Ryzen 7 3780U SE)

Microsoft Surface Laptop 3

(Ryzen 5 3580U SE)

PCMark 10

(Native resolution)

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

4,716

4,140

4,299

4,055

4,481

4,077

4,142

3,977

While the Surface Laptop

3 (Core i7) is about a

midrange performer

overall, it smokes the

Ryzen PCs on our list.

M(Core i7-1065G7)icrosoft Surface Laptop 3

MPerf icrosoft Surface Laptop 3 (Core i7-1065G7)

MPerf icrosoft Surface Laptop 3 (Ryzen 7 3780U SE)

Microsoft Surface Laptop 3

(Ryzen 7 3780U SE)

Huawei Matebook 13

(Core i5-8265U)

Microsoft Surface Laptop 3

Perf (Ryzen 5 3580U SE)

M(Ryzen 5 3580U SE)icrosoft Surface Laptop 3

Acer Sw(Core i7-8565U)ift 3 (2019)

Cinebench RT15.038

(All threads)

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

751

692

722

662

739

691

695

539