MARCH 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 17Surface Laptop 3 (Core i7). We didn’t have a Surface
Pro 7 tablet to test, but the Surface Laptop 3 (Core i7)
uses the same Ice Lake processor.
For our test suite, we first chose the PCMark 10
Apps benchmark, which restricts testing to the three
main Office apps (Word, Excel and PowerPoint, plus
the EdgeHTML version of Microsoft Edge.) It’s about
as real-world as you can get. Remember, Qualcomm
claimed that it could perform as well as a Core i5 with
its 8cx in this test. Our results put it a notch lower on
the totem pole.
The web-based complement to the PCMark
benchmarking suite is WebXPRT 3 by Principled
Technologies, which runs a series of JavaScript and
HTML benchmarks to determine how well the SurfaceThe Surface Pro X keeps up here, but
still can’t top its aging competition