Microsoft Surface Laptop 4

Performance Results

 
Gaming
Gaming 15%
Surfboard
Desktop
Desktop 78%
Battleship
Workstation
Workstation 14%
Tree trunk
PC StatusOverall this PC is performing as expected (42nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 58 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
ProcessorWith a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 81%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics10% 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 Drive131% 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.
Memory8GB 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 VersionAlthough Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.
Very high background CPU (53%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.
Run History
SystemMicrosoft Surface Laptop 4  (all builds)
MotherboardMicrosoft Surface Laptop 4
Memory2 GB free of 8 GB @ 4.3 GHz
Display2496 x 1664 - 32 Bit colors
OSWindows 10
BIOS Date20201204
Uptime0.1 Days
Run DateMay 11 '21 at 09:00
Run Duration110 Seconds
Run User USA-User
Background CPU 53%

 PC Performing as expected (42nd percentile)

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

Processor BenchNormalHeavyServer
AMD Ryzen 7 Microsoft Surface Edition
FP6, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads
Base clock 2 GHz, turbo 3.2 GHz (avg)
Performing above expectations (78th percentile)
81% Excellent
Memory 71.7
1-Core 136
2-Core 237
82% 148 Pts
4-Core 485
8-Core 718
75% 602 Pts
64-Core 647
40% 647 Pts
Poor: 42%
This bench: 81%
Great: 86%
Graphics Card Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
AMD RX Vega 8 4000 (iGPU)
Microsoft(1414 0051) 512MB
Ram: 512MB, Driver: 20.40.21.02
Performing below expectations (24th percentile)
10% Very poor
Lighting 11
Reflection 10.6
Parallax 22.4
9% 14.7 fps
MRender 12.3
Gravity 17.5
Splatting 14.5
12% 14.8 fps
Poor: 8%
This bench: 10%
Great: 17%
Drive BenchSequentialRandom 4kDeep queue 4k
HFM512GDGTNI-82A0A 512GB
443GB free (System drive)
Firmware: 11001C00
SusWrite @10s intervals: 673 666 685 728 733 549 MB/s
Performing as expected (55th percentile)
131% Outstanding
Read 648
Write 552
Mixed 628
SusWrite 672
141% 625 MB/s
4K Read 30.2
4K Write 72.9
4K Mixed 45.3
142% 49.5 MB/s
DQ Read 607
DQ Write 263
DQ Mixed 513
359% 461 MB/s
Poor: 77%
This bench: 131%
Great: 168%
Memory Kit BenchMulti coreSingle coreLatency
Unknown MT53E512M32D2NP-046 2x4GB
2 of 2 slots used
8GB LPDDR4 clocked @ 4266 MHz
Performing below potential (10th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP
68.4% Good
MC Read 27.5
MC Write 22.8
MC Mixed 25.4
72% 25.2 GB/s
SC Read 13.9
SC Write 22.8
SC Mixed 16.6
51% 17.8 GB/s
Latency 97.5
41% 97.5 ns
Poor: 67%
This bench: 68.4%
Great: 94%

 System Memory Latency Ladder

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

Typical Surface Laptop 4 Builds (Compare 1,912 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings
Gaming
Gaming 20%
Surfboard
Desktop
Desktop 77%
Battleship
Workstation
Workstation 18%
Surfboard

System: Microsoft Surface Laptop 4

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