SP4 Benchmarks

[GreyFox7]

Lookout! The benchmarks are coming, the benchmarks are coming...

If you run one or see one, post it here.

Test: Erste Eindrücke vom Microsoft Surface Pro 4
The site is in German but some pictures are in English and numbers are numbers

3DMark:


PCMark8:

PCMark8 Home

PCMark8 Office


SSD

 

[hughlle]

Having just run crystalmark myself, that is looking like roughly a 50% Read performance increase and a 35% increase in write. Take into account my drive is probably fragmented and this and that compared to a demo unit with nothing on it.

 

[GreyFox7]

Having just run crystalmark myself, that is looking like roughly a 50% Read performance increase and a 35% increase in write. Take into account my drive is probably fragmented and this and that compared to a demo unit with nothing on it.

Fragmentation on an SSD is inconsequential since we don't have to wait for it to spin.

 

[Anonymous Coward]

So roughly a 30% increase 3DMark/PCMark from i5SP3 to i5SP4, in line with what MSFT said at the event.

2 questions:
- We need to see the i7 benchmarks as MSFT was claiming 80% increase i7 to i7 at the release event.
- Is anyone able to get this i5 or i7 to throttle after repeated runs...

 

[callihan_44]

Im curious if core m will be weak ( considering the complaints for MacBook-Lenovo yoga owners) and if the I-5 can sustain speed without throttling. The storage speed bump up will be nice though for sure.

 

[GreyFox7]

Im curious if core m will be weak ( considering the complaints for MacBook-Lenovo yoga owners) and if the I-5 can sustain speed without throttling. The storage speed bump up will be nice though for sure.

I'm thinking this will be more of a case of Core-M done right ... but we shall see.

I was at a Best Buy and they had one SP4, an i5 model. They had a spot marked off for a Surface Book but didn't have one yet.

Getting a full set of devices under test right now might be a challenge.

 

[jrioux]

Here are early Geekbench results for the i5.

 

[Anonymous Coward]

It is interesting also to see the Geekbench results for the Surface Book.

Surface Book i5 is comparable to the Surface Pro 4 i5.

There is also a listing of Surface Book i7 which shows 3577 single-core and 7401 multi-core.

The i7-6600U being about a 15% increase on the Geekbench vs. the i5. Should be similar for the Pro 4 i7.

Surface Pro - Geekbench Search - Geekbench Browser

 

[jrioux]

I found it interesting that the Geekbench scores for the i5 SP4 are higher than those for the i7 SP3.

 

[Moonsurface]

I found it interesting that the Geekbench scores for the i5 SP4 are higher than those for the i7 SP3.

I ran my SP3 i7 on 3Dmark last week. The mark for the SP4 i5 is 50% better than mine for skydiver I got combine score for Skydiver 1.0 of 2642. with the main advantage to the SP4 being the physics score of the new graphics processor.

I don't game on it so I'm not that bothered, but it does show a substantial increase in performance.

 

[GreyFox7]

Anandtech review with performance data (The Gold Standard)

The Microsoft Surface Pro 4 Review: Raising The Bar

Just one teaser for now... Their tested SP4 is the i5 model.

 

[hughlle]

Based on anandtech the sp4 looks to have cracking g performance and with very little throttling! Great news.

Although very interesting that they opted to benchmark again at the iPhone and the iPad but not one comparison against Air performance.