Microsoft Surface Book 3

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming
Gaming 1%
Tree trunk
Desktop
Desktop 23%
Surfboard
Workstation
Workstation 1%
Tree trunk
PC StatusOverall this PC is performing below expectations (31st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 69 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.
ProcessorWith an extremely low single core score, this CPU can barely handle email and light web browsing. Finally, with a gaming score of 23.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very poor.
Graphics0.66% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot DriveThe boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory16GB 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 VersionWindows 11 is the most recent version of Windows.
Very high background CPU (58%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.
Run History
SystemMicrosoft Surface Book 3  (all builds)
MotherboardMicrosoft Surface Book 3
Memory11.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 4.3 GHz
Display3240 x 2160 - 32 Bit kleuren,
OSWindows 11
BIOS Date20220708
Uptime0 Days
Run DateJan 06 '23 at 16:28
Run Duration158 Seconds
Run User BEL-User
Background CPU 58%

 PC Performing below expectations (31st percentile)

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

Processor BenchNormalHeavyServer
Intel Core i7-1065G7
U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads
Base clock 1.5 GHz, turbo 0.6 GHz (avg)
Performing way below expectations (3rd percentile)
23.8% Poor
Memory 40.9
1-Core 22.3
2-Core 58.7
25% 40.6 Pts
4-Core 38.3
8-Core 59.1
6% 48.7 Pts
64-Core 59.4
4% 59.4 Pts
Poor: 30%
This bench: 23.8%
Great: 70%
Graphics Card Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
Intel Iris Plus G7
Microsoft(1414 0043) 1GB
Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 30.0.101.3118
Relative performance (0th percentile)
0.66% Terrible
Lighting 0.9
Reflection 5.6
Parallax 0.7
1% 2.4 fps
MRender 0.7
Gravity 0.7
Splatting 0.5
0% 0.63 fps
Poor: 6%
This bench: 0.66%
Great: 13%
Drive BenchSequentialRandom 4kDeep queue 4k
Kbg40zns256g TOSHIBA MEMORY 256GB
85GB free (System drive)
Firmware: AEMS0102
SusWrite @10s intervals: 184 177 96 114 148 191 MB/s
Performing way above expectations (90th percentile)
76.6% Very good
Read 112
Write 57.3
Mixed 194
SusWrite 152
98% 129 MB/s
4K Read 5.8
4K Write 5.1
4K Mixed 5.5
947% 5.47 MB/s
Poor: 35%
This bench: 76.6%
Great: 77%
Memory Kit BenchMulti coreSingle coreLatency
Samsung K4UBE3D4AA-MGCL 2x8GB
2 of 2 slots used
16GB Row of chips LPDDR4 4267 MHz clocked @ 3733 MHz
Performing below potential (0th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP
25.6% Poor
MC Read 8.8
MC Write 10.3
MC Mixed 10.8
28% 9.97 GB/s
SC Read 2.9
SC Write 3.6
SC Mixed 4
10% 3.5 GB/s
Latency 198
20% 198 ns
Poor: 67%
This bench: 25.6%
Great: 119%

 System Memory Latency Ladder

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

Typical Surface Book 3 Builds (Compare 1,684 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings
Gaming
Gaming 15%
Surfboard
Desktop
Desktop 60%
Destroyer
Workstation
Workstation 14%
Tree trunk

System: Microsoft Surface Book 3

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