98 TECH ADVISOR • JULY 2020REVIEW
Samsung’s Galaxy Book S actually tops the Microsoft Surface
Pro X, an arguably more powerful machine, in this benchmark2.79secondsfortheX1Carbon,and5.4secondsfor
Samsung’sPC.Anothernumberseemedsignificant:
whiletheX1CarboncouldplaybackH.264-encoded
videoata full 30 framespersecond,Samsung’s Galaxy
BookScouldn’tgetpast24.6fps.
We use the PCMark 8 Creative benchmark to
evaluate how laptops like the Galaxy Book S will
perform inphotoediting,videoediting,light
gaming,andmore.TheGalaxyBookSpostedone
of thelowest scores.
A similartest,theWebXPRT3 benchmark,runs
onawebpagetomeasurehowwellthelaptopcan
performinsomelighteditingandmultimediatasks.
Again,theSamsungGalaxyBook S performs a bit
slowerthanthe SurfaceProX.