Microsoft Surface Book 3

Performance Results


Gaming 19% Surfboard	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 18% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (90th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 10 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 67.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	13.4% 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	141% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

CPU throttled at 86% 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

3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

System	Microsoft Surface Book 3 (all builds)
Motherboard	Microsoft Surface Book 3
Memory	26.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 4.3 GHz
Display	3240 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20201106
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 08 '21 at 03:24
Run Duration	110 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	3%
CPU Throttled	86%

PC Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-1065G7 58,314 User benchmarks, average bench 53% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 1.5 GHz, turbo 3.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	67.5% Good	Memory 63.4 1-Core 139 2-Core 269 83% 157 Pts	4-Core 385 8-Core 563 59% 474 Pts	64-Core 546 34% 546 Pts
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 67.5% Great: 70%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel Iris Plus G7 FAQ - How to force Optimus or Switchable discrete GPUs? Microsoft(1414 0043) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 27.20.100.8681 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	13.4% Very poor	Lighting 16.2 Reflection 82.7 Parallax 18.1 13% 39 fps	MRender 13.7 Gravity 17.6 Splatting 18.7 14% 16.7 fps
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 13.4% Great: 13%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kbg40zns512g TOSHIBA MEMORY 512GB 503 User benchmarks, average bench 121% 399GB free (System drive) Firmware: AEMS0102 SusWrite @10s intervals: 686 775 485 361 355 385 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	141% Outstanding	Read 753 Write 452 Mixed 900 SusWrite 508 147% 653 MB/s	4K Read 43.3 4K Write 92.3 4K Mixed 56.8 187% 64.1 MB/s	DQ Read 707 DQ Write 273 DQ Mixed 557 394% 512 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 141% Great: 167%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung K4UCE3Q4AA-MGCL 2x16GB 3,173 User benchmarks, average bench 104% 2 of 2 slots used 32GB Row of chips LPDDR4 4267 MHz clocked @ 3733 MHz Performing below potential (91^st percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	115% Outstanding	MC Read 45.2 MC Write 49.3 MC Mixed 36.1 124% 43.5 GB/s	SC Read 19 SC Write 41.8 SC Mixed 29.7 86% 30.2 GB/s	Latency 118 34% 118 ns
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 116%

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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 15%

Surfboard

Desktop 60%

Destroyer

Workstation 14%

Tree trunk

System: Microsoft Surface Book 3

CPU
Core i7-1065G7IntelBench 53%, 58,314 samples	1,678x
Core i5-1035G7IntelBench 58%, 4,822 samples	3x

GPU
Iris Plus G7IntelBench 9%, 52,498 samples	1,214x
GTX 1660-Ti (Mobile Max-Q)NvidiaBench 57%, 12,899 samples	273x
GTX 1650 (Mobile Max-Q)NvidiaBench 36%, 6,904 samples	151x

SSD
HFM512GDGTNG-87A0A 512GBBench 107%, 1,880 samples	617x
TOSHIBA 1TBKxg60znv1t02Bench 192%, 1,346 samples	480x
TOSHIBA MEMORY 512GBKbg40zns512gBench 121%, 503 samples	218x

RAM
K4UCE3Q4AA-MGCL 2x16GBSamsungBench 104%, 3,173 samples	1,638x
H9HCNNNCPMALHR-NEE 2x8GBHynixBench 102%, 3,263 samples	28x
K4UBE3D4AA-MGCL 2x8GBSamsungBench 104%, 7,828 samples	12x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16