Microsoft Surface Laptop 4

Performance Results


Gaming 15% Tree trunk	Desktop 67% Battle cruiser	Workstation 15% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (29th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 71 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 71.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	11% 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	99.6% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (29%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

2 years ago, 2 years ago.

System	Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 (all builds)
Motherboard	Microsoft Surface Laptop 4
Memory	11.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 4.3 GHz
Display	2256 x 1504 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20201204
Uptime	3.7 Days
Run Date	Jul 10 '21 at 16:20
Run Duration	125 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	29%

PC Performing below expectations (29^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 7 Microsoft Surface Edition 378 User benchmarks, average bench 69% FP6, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 2 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (45^th percentile)	71.7% Very good	Memory 32.5 1-Core 135 2-Core 267 72% 145 Pts	4-Core 593 8-Core 860 91% 726 Pts	64-Core 1101 68% 1101 Pts
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 71.7% Great: 86%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX Vega 8 4000 (iGPU) 162,082 User benchmarks, average bench 13% Microsoft(1414 0051) 512MB Ram: 512MB, Driver: 20.40.21.02 Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)	11% Very poor	Lighting 11.3 Reflection 18.7 Parallax 27 9% 19 fps	MRender 12.4 Gravity 19.3 Splatting 19.9 14% 17.2 fps
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 11% Great: 17%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kbg40zns1t02 TOSHIBA MEMORY 1TB 233 User benchmarks, average bench 143% 912GB free (System drive) Firmware: AEGA0101 SusWrite @10s intervals: 410 407 392 471 347 341 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile)	99.6% Outstanding	Read 526 Write 419 Mixed 462 SusWrite 395 101% 450 MB/s	4K Read 17.9 4K Write 75.1 4K Mixed 23.9 98% 39 MB/s	DQ Read 853 DQ Write 272 DQ Mixed 616 440% 580 MB/s
Poor: 82% ↑ This bench: 99.6% Great: 196%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown H9HCNNNCPMMLXR-NEE 2x8GB 2,127 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB LPDDR4 clocked @ 4266 MHz Performing below potential (18^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	66.2% Good	MC Read 26.1 MC Write 21.6 MC Mixed 24.1 68% 23.9 GB/s	SC Read 12.4 SC Write 33.6 SC Mixed 23.5 66% 23.2 GB/s	Latency 240 17% 240 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 66.2% Great: 86%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

SkillBench Score 0: 0R 0G 0B (High Scores)

Measures user input accuracy relative to the given hardware

Score	Hit Rate	Shots	EFps	0.1% Low	Refresh Rate	Screen	Resolution	Monitor
0%	0%	0	9	7	60	31.5"	1280 720	DEL41EB DELL P3221D

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Gaming 20%

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Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 18%

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System: Microsoft Surface Laptop 4

CPU
Core i7-1185G7IntelBench 67%, 9,588 samples	995x
Core i5-1135G7IntelBench 69%, 36,962 samples	294x
Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface EditionAMDBench 63%, 613 samples	287x

GPU
Iris XeIntelBench 14%, 144,774 samples	1,477x
RX Vega 8 4000 (iGPU)AMDBench 13%, 162,082 samples	432x

SSD
SDBPTPZ-512G-1124-WDC 512GBBench 154%, 368 samples	557x
HFM256GDGTNI-82A0A 256GBBench 104%, 496 samples	255x
MZ9LQ512HALU-00000 512GBSamsungBench 115%, 1,535 samples	197x

RAM
53E1G32D2NP-046 8x2GBMicronBench 109%, 5,383 samples	295x
HCNNNCPMMLXR-NEE 8x2GBHynixBench 116%, 4,501 samples	274x
UBE3D4AA-MGCR 8x2GBSamsungBench 108%, 9,706 samples	242x

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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