26 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2020
REVIEW
The Surface Pro 7 delivers decent performance here,
but we suspect some slight throttling may be at work.
When it comes to graphics benchmarks, the
differences become clear. We saw some rather
significant differences in GPU frame rate in our
3DMarkSkyDivertest,whichdeveloperULtoutsas
abenchmark for gaming machines.
Though the Surface Laptop 3 for Business and the
Surface Pro 7 share a common CPU and GPU platform,
the differences in this benchmark are stark. Why? Using
Intel’s Power Gadget widget, we traced the GPU power
and frequency as it ran the benchmark. The Surface Pro
7 seems to throttle the GPU pretty hard in this particular
test. Though the SP7’s GPU occasionally spikes to a
peak speed of 3.7GHz, it tends to run at prolonged
Two identical processors, two nearly identical scores
