MAY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 27periods at 267MHz. The Surface Laptop 3’s typical
speed is 283MHz, and with much longer prolonged
‘spikes’ of 3.35GHz to 3.75GHz. This translates to
better prolonged graphics performance.
The gist of this result is that quasi-modern games
like Grand Theft Auto V will play, though you’ll have to
dial down the resolution down to 720p or so and turn
off most of the advanced graphics options off. The Iris
Plus graphics integrated into Intel’s Core i7-1065G7
provides decent GPU performance, almost (but not
quite) to the point of a low-end discrete GPU.
As noted above, we definitely see some throttling
going on within the Ice Lake GPU, resulting in aThe chart is distorted by the agonizingly slow performance of
the Microsoft Surface Go, but the Surface Pro 7 is still superior.
Better cooling on the Surface Laptop 3 helps its prevail