Microsoft Surface Book 2

Performance Results


Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 15% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 72.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	14.7% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	128% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

CPU throttled at 90% by Windows. Ensure maximum processor state is set to 100% via Settings > System > Power & sleep > Additional power settings > Change plan settings > Change advanced power settings > Processor power management > Maximum processor state.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

System	Microsoft Surface Book 2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Microsoft Surface Book 2
Memory	4.5 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	3000 x 2000 - 32 Bit colors, 2880 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20190821
Uptime	0.7 Days
Run Date	Dec 22 '19 at 19:32
Run Duration	110 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%
CPU Throttled	90%

PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8650U 42,414 User benchmarks, average bench 52% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.1 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	72.5% Very good	Memory 70.4 1-Core 109 2-Core 228 74% 136 Pts	4-Core 412 8-Core 524 60% 468 Pts	64-Core 518 32% 518 Pts
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 72.5% Great: 71%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1050 (Mobile) 160,694 User benchmarks, average bench 23% Microsoft(1414 0024) 2GB Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 26.21.14.3086 Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	14.7% Very poor	Lighting 16.3 Reflection 20 Parallax 14.4 13% 16.9 fps	MRender 4.19 Gravity 32.9 Splatting 24.5 18% 20.5 fps
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 14.7% Great: 25%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung MZFLW256HEHP-000MV 256GB 6,615 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 147GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXB72M0Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 321 324 326 321 295 321 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	128% Outstanding	Read 883 Write 331 Mixed 327 SusWrite 318 102% 465 MB/s	4K Read 36.6 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 36.5 157% 59 MB/s	DQ Read 827 DQ Write 328 DQ Mixed 455 369% 537 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 128% Great: 145%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix H9CCNNNBJTALAR-NUD 2x4GB 14,211 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 2 of 2 slots used 8GB Row of chips LPDDR3 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	62.1% Good	MC Read 22.5 MC Write 24.6 MC Mixed 19.2 63% 22.1 GB/s	SC Read 15.2 SC Write 25.1 SC Mixed 18.5 56% 19.6 GB/s	Latency 100 40% 100 ns
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 62.1% Great: 80%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 9%

Tree trunk

Desktop 54%

Yacht

Workstation 9%

Tree trunk

System: Microsoft Surface Book 2

CPU
Core i7-8650UIntelBench 52%, 42,414 samples	3,311x
Core i5-7300UIntelBench 45%, 24,421 samples	421x
Core i5-8350UIntelBench 52%, 19,808 samples	194x

GPU
UHD Graphics 620 (Mobile Kaby Lake R)IntelBench 5%, 420,154 samples	2,769x
GTX 1060 (Mobile)NvidiaBench 47%, 177,775 samples	419x
HD 620 (Mobile Kaby Lake)IntelBench 5%, 387,149 samples	415x

SSD
MZFLW512HMJP-000MV 512GBSamsungBench 114%, 5,563 samples	960x
MZFLW256HEHP-000MV 256GBSamsungBench 105%, 6,615 samples	867x
HFS256GD9TNG-62A0A 256GBBABench 97%, 2,238 samples	612x

RAM
H9CCNNNCLGALAR-NUD 2x8GBHynixBench 60%, 11,327 samples	1,783x
2x8GBSamsungBench 62%, 17,576 samples	1,003x
H9CCNNNBJTALAR-NUD 2x4GBHynixBench 61%, 14,211 samples	988x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $64	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16