Microsoft Surface Book

Last Update: 2015-11-10 1:54 PM

first posted: 2015-10-26

announced : 2015/10/06 http://www.microsoft.com/october2015event/en-us (starts 1h15m09s)

main page : http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/devices/surface-book

forum - http://www.surfaceforums.net/forums/microsoft-surface-book.84/

user guide - http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/support/userguides (link to keyboard touchpad is wrong, go through http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/support , http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/support?productId=110680900 , getting started http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/support/getting-started/get-started-with-surface-book?os=windows-10 instead)

video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVfOe5mFbAE

so cute - Making the switch ... from MacBook - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/switch/mac-surface/

update log - https://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/support/install-update-activate/surface-book-update-history?os=windows-10

Good

BAD

Adobe Media Encoder

Pr 2015.0.2 release 9.0.2 (6) build unless noted

10 seconds 4K MP4 to H.264 high bitrate

28 seconds Asus ZenBook Pro UX501 i7-4720HQ 2.6/turbo 3.6 GHz GTX 960M 2GB GDDR5, 16GB, 512GB
36 seconds Microsoft Surface Book i7-6600U 2.6/turbo 3.4 GHz (HD graphics 520 + dGPU), 8GB, 256GB
52 seconds Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro 13 i7-4500 1.80GHz/2.40 GHz (*Pr 2014.2 release 8.2.0 (65) build) 8GB, 256GB
53 seconds MacBook Pro 13" retina 2015 i5-5257U 2.7/turbo 3.1 GHz, 16GB, 256GB
114 seconds Sony VAIO Pro 13 i7-4500 1.80GHz (low @0.79GHz) 8GB, 256GB

 

CPU - Handbrake

http://handbrake.fr/

Handbrake - 2h10m Grandmaster 7.27GB DVD

  fps Model CPU clock RAM OS  
11m03s 354 Surface Book i7-6600U 2.6GHz (Turbo 3.4GHz) 8GB Windows 10 64-bit 0.10.2 Intel QSV
14m26s 270 ThinkPad Yoga 12 i5-5200U 2.2GHz (Turbo 2.7GHz) 8GB Windows 8.1 64-bit 0.10.1 Intel QSV
19m32s 200 ThinkPad Yoga 12 i5-5200U 2.2GHz (Turbo 2.7GHz) 8GB Windows 8.1 64-bit 0.9.8 (use the newer versions instead for work, this is for the purpose of comparison with older results only)
15m46s 247 X1C3 i5-5200U 2.2GHz (Turbo 2.7GHz) 8GB Windows 8.1 64-bit 0.10.1 H.264 (x264)
36m35s 107 MBP13r2015e i5-5257U 2.7GHz (Turbo 3.1GHz) 16GB OS X 10.10.1 0.10.1 H.264 (x264) no Intel QSV
11m03s 353 Asus UX 501 i7-4720HQ 2.6GHz (Turbo 3.6GHz) 16GB Windows 8.1 64-bit 0.10.1 Intel QSV
19m28s   X1 Carbon Gen 2 i5-4200U 1.60GHz (Turbo to ? GHz) 4/8GB Windows 8.1 64-bit  
21m33s 181 X1 Carbon Gen 2 i5-4300U 1.90GHz (Turbo to 2.12-2.17GHz) 8GB Windows 8.1 64-bit Intel 240GB SSD
19m29s 200 ThinkPad S1 Yoga i5-4300U 1.90GHz (Turbo to 2.23-2.33GHz) 8GB Windows 8.1 64-bit Lite-On 256GB SSD
20m56s 186 Sony VAIO Pro 13 i7-4500U 1.80GHz (runing at 1.60GHz even at 86% utilitzation using high performance profile, cannot Turbo to 3.0GHz) 8GB Windows 8.1 64-bit  
16m32s 236 X1 Carbon Touch i7-3667U 2.00GHz (Turbo to 2.95GHz) 8GB Windows 8 64-bit  
21m28s 182 Surface Pro i5-3317U 1.70GHz (Turbo to 2.38GHz) 4GB Windows 8.1 64-bit  
17m00s 229 T430s i5-3320 2.60GHz 4GB Windows 7 32-bit  
10m01s 389 M14R2 i7-3610QM 2.30GHz 16GB Windows 7 HP 64-bit mSATA boot, data on HDD
19m27s 200 T420s i5-2520 2.50GHz 3GB Windows 7 32-bit Intel mSATA boot, not enough room, source on Seagate BackUp Plus FAST STDA4000100 USB 3.0
11m17s 345 W520 i7-2720QM 2.20GHz (Turbo to 2.69-2.97GHz 16GB Windows 8 64-bit (Samsung 840 PRO RAPID mode enabled DXM06B0Q firmware
26m50s 145 T410 i5-M520 2.40GHz 3GB Windows 7 32-bit  

Maxon CineBench

http://www.maxon.net/products/cinebench/overview.html

R15

 

  Surface Book ThinkP Yoga 12 X1 Carbon Gen 3 Dell E7450 MBP13r2015e MBP13r2015e i5-5257U 2.7GHz 16GB RAM Parallels VM Asus UX501 ThinkPad Yoga
OpenGL (fps) 30.58 28.96 28.38 30.91 25.43 25.39 91.86 24.5
Ref. Match 99.6% 98.0% 98.0% 98.0% 99.3% 97.9% 99.6 98%
CPU (cb) 328 230 254 281 302 213 615 226
CPU (Single Core) (cb) 136 79 110 92 124 112 138 81
MP Ratio 2.41x 2.91x 2.30x 3.49x 2.43x 1.90x 4.46x 2.45x

Unigine Heaven 4.0

https://unigine.com/products/heaven/

  Surface Book 1920x1080 High max. 78 °C Surface Book system 3000x2000 TP Yoga 12 Ultra TP Yoga 12 High X1C3 MBP13r2015 High MBP13r2015 Med Asus UX501 high Asus UX501 medium ThinkPad Yoga
FPS 21.0 6.3 7.9 9.0 9.1 10.9 12.2 42.8 47.4 6.1
Score 530 158 200 226 228 276 208 1078 1194 153
Min FPS 14.2 3.2 5.5 4.7 4.7 2.7 2.8 8.2 12.8 3.8
Max FPS 39.6 13.5 13.9 16.1 16.0 20.6 22.1 78.8 82.7 11.5

Unigine Valley 1.0

https://unigine.com/products/valley/

  Surface Book (1280x720 High) Surface Book (1920x1080 High max. 72 °C) Surface Book (3000x2000 High) TP Yoga 12 Ultra TP Yoga 12 High X1C3 MBP13r2015e High MBP13r2015e Med asus UX501 High ThinkPad Yoga
FPS 42.9 23.3 7.8 7.2 8.4 8.8 9.9-10.2 11.8 39.5 3.7
Score 1793 975 326 301 351 367 413-427 493 1653 153
Min FPS 22.3 15.1 4.4 4.3 4.8 5.1 5.1-5.3 6.7 17.7 2.1
Max FPS 70.9 43.1 14.4 11.5 13.5 14.4 17.2 18.1 72.8 6.7

FurMark

http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/

1.17.0.0

720 preset

  Surface Book (max. 73 °C) ThinkPad Yoga 12 (1.15.1.0) X1 Carbon Gen 3 Dell E7450 Asus UX501 X1 Carbon Gen 2 4300U ThinkPad Yoga 4200U X1 Carbon
points 1161 446 446 507 3958 346 413 423
fps 19 7 7 8 65 5 6 7
60000 ms (min:19, max: 21) (min 8, max 9 - huh, and avg 7?) (min:7, max: 11) (min:8, max:10) (min:57, max: 80 - options:DynBkg) (min:6, max:9) (min:7, max:10)  

3D Mark

http://www.3dmark.com/

 

CPU & GPU not recognized, graphics driver not approved

  Score Graphics Physics Combined
Ice Storm 1.2

Surface Book 16551 v1.5.915 64

(TPYoga12 46630 v1.5.884.0)
(X1C3 43935)
(E7450 52816)
(XPS 13 52915 (better than 7% of all results))
(X1C2 39209)
(X1C1 31733)

Surface Book 15576 (68.1/67.36 fps)

(TPYoga12 51287 (221.31/224.69 fps))
(X1C3 47254 (211.51/199.74 fps))
(E7450 59778 (255.57/264.39 fps))
(XPS 13 61463 (262.79/271.83 fps))
(X1C2 44344 (213.93/175.47 fps))
(X1C1 35603 (168/144 fps))

Surface Book 21196 (67.29 fps)

(TPYoga12 35385 (112.33 fps))
(X1C3 35266 (111.96 fps))
(E7450 37523 (119.12 fps))
(XPS 13 35591 (112.99 fps))
(X1C2 27902 (88.58 fps))
(X1C1 22989 (73 fps))

 
Cloud Gate 1.1

Surface Book 7741

(TPYoga12 5099)
(X1C3 5022)
(E7450 5306)
(XPS 13 5246)
(X1C2 4083)
(X1C1 3425)

Surface Book 11236 (46.28/51.72 fps)

(TPYoga12 6478 (28.91/27.47 fps))
(X1C3 6262 (27.85/26.64 fps))
(E7450 28.76/18.42 fps)
(XPS 13 6754 (29.59/29.15 fps))
(X1C2 5066 (22.44/21.63 fps))
(X1C1 4172 (18/19 fps))

Surface Book 3707 (11.77 fps)

(TPYoga12 2923 (9.28 fps))
(X1C3 2967 (9.42 fps))
(E7450 3166 (10.05 fps))
(XPS 13 2945 (9.35 fps))
(X1C2 2432 (7.72 fps))
(X1C1 2106 (7 fps))

 
Fire Strike 1.1

Surface Book 1900

(TPYoga12 717)
(X1C3 696)
(E7450 742)
(XPS 13 752)
(X1C2 531 (7% of all results))
(X1C1 483)

Surface Book 2035 (9.96/7.96 fps)

(TPYoga12 772 (3.6/3.15 fps))
(X1C3 748 (3.51/3.03 fps))
(E7450 788)
(XPS 13 810 (3.85/3.25 fps))
(X1C2 592 (2.75/2.42 fps))
(X1C1 532 (2/2 fps))

Surface Book 5355 (17.00 fps)

(TPYoga12 3786 (12.02 fps))
(X1C3 4172 (13.25 fps))
(E7450 4507)
(XPS 13 4176 (13.26 fps))
(X1C2 3518 (11.17 fps))
(X1C1 2968 (9 fps))

Surface Book 772 (3.59 fps)

(TPYoga12 262 (1.22 fps))
(X1C3 252 1.17fps))
(E7450 276)
(XPS 13 273 (1.27 fps))
(X1C2 182 (0.85 fps))
(X1C1 164 (0.76 fps))

Sky Diver 1.0

Surface Book 6129

(TPYoga12 2562)
(X1C3 2539)
(E7450 2718)
(XPS 13 2774)

Surface Book 6331 (27.63/30.32 fps)

(TPYoga12 2410 (11.45/10.6 fps))
(X1C3 2402 (11.63/10.38 fps))
(E7450 2562 (12.34/11.13 fps))
(XPS 13 2631 (12.89/11.25 fps))

Surface Book 4874 (67.3 fps)

(TPYoga12 4049 (71.63 fps))
(X1C3 3835 (73.98 fps 8 threads))
(E7450 4168 (70.94 fps))
(XPS 13 4076 (70.28 fps))

Surface Book 7196 (29.62 fps)

(TPYoga12 2384 (9.81 fps))
(X1C3 2358 (9.71 fps))
(E7450 2552 (10.51 fps))
(XPS 13 2597)

VMD

http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/

1.9.2 CUDA

DNA

  Surface Book ThinkPad Yoga 12 X1C3 Asus UX501 Asus UX501 CUDA ThinkPad Yoga
fps 59-62 2140 1750 3994 60 3172

Chimera

http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/benchmark/benchmark.html

1.10.2

pythonw crashed during solid rendering, max. out RAM and disk at 100%, have to be terminated in taskmgr

molecule benchmark PDB 1f4h

  Surface Book ThinkPad Yoga 12 (1.10.1) X1 Carbon Gen 3 (1.10.1) MBP13r2015e asus UX501 X1 Carbon Gen 2 (1.8.1) X1 Carbon (1.7) T410 (1.41) W520 (1.52)
null 1526.9 4513.0 4734.8 6120.0 3777.6 2747.2 2942.8    
wireframe 386.5 536.7 353.0 634.2 342.4 370.8 127.6   196.1
stick 11.7 9.0 10.9 5.0 12.6 2.3 1.9 12.2  
ball-stick 11.6 8.8 10.7 5.1 12.6 2.3 1.9 12.3 32.9
ribbon 483.7 533.5 161.0 349.8 219.5 195.5 132.8    
sphere 20.2 16.1 18.8 8.3 22.3 4.4 3.7 14.1  
ops 81.4 90.7 89.6 75.9 106.6 92.4 78.2    
surface (volume) 529 435 259 12422 359 437      
mesh 527 433 292 1043 289 377      
contour 308 271 275 268 303 279      
solid crashed crashed crashed 748 512 560      
recolor 603 306 293 491 251 278      

 

WinSAT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_System_Assessment_Tool

MB/s
Surface Book ThinkPad Yoga 12 X1 Carbon Gen 3 Dell E7450 MBP13r2015e i5-5257U 2.7GHz 16GB RAM Parallels VM ThinkPad Yoga X1 Carbon Gen 2 Helix X1 Carbon W8E32 Taichi T430s T420s
W520 T510 T400/W500
CPU LZW Compression
342.62 223.87 224.28 243.04 210.4 238.02 238.65 206.07 174.59 243.92 267.54 220.56
495.30 171.94 119.46
CPU AES256 Encryption
1792.68 1194.67 1240.40 1290.37 802.01 1235.14 1263.36 100.92 83.69 117.71 129.63     106.00 228.19 77.55 62.17
CPU Vista Compression
883.12 619.26 616.20 664.58 555.69 636.75 637.11 553.80 601.28 650.05 719.58+ 745.99 1311.40 569.76 368.56
CPU SHA1 Hash 1012.66 776.25 915.12 842.94 904.49 773.47 958.79 633.67 545.80 739.87 891.80 653.23 1397.21 420.36 568.14
Uniproc CPU LZW Compression
140.69 92.78 94.20 101.36 105.46 88.0 101.89 83.63 68.99 99.44 107.72 78.42 94.79+ 69.51 61.87
Uniproc CPU AES256 Encryption 502.98 348.78 348.94 374.74 401.22 336.45 375.10 52.10 39.29 60.44 66.43 46.34 59.53 38.03 32.76
Uniproc CPU Vista Compression 365.86 246.50 248.56 267.06 279.36 226.55 263.23 208.13 237.40 243.24 273.65 261.65 251.55+ 207.42 194.03
Uniproc CPU SHA1 Hash 512.41 396.99 396.57 427.02 456.57 383.90 428.47 357.95 304.14 413.22 420.78 319.53 343.79+ 238.53 297.66
Dshow Video Encode Time (s) 1.99885 2.77823 2.78059 2.59370 2.76760 2.70669 2.67998 2.88483 2.75325 2.46806 2.45161 2.61391 1.45114 3.35620 5.31552
Memory Performance 24221.42 15685.87 16124.03 15918.68 20998.80 15798.61 17305.41 12898.00 12785.98 14939.07 15768.97 13239.94 9235.90+ 6194.03 5322.44

GeekBench

http://www.primatelabs.com/geekbench/download/windows/

v3.3.2 x32

performance Surface Book single-core Surface Book multi-core ThinkPad Yoga 12
single core
ThinkPad Yoga 12 multi-core

X1C3
single-core score

X1C3
multi-core score
Dell E7450 single Dell 7450 multi Apple MBP13r (early 2015) single Apple MBP13r (early 2015) multi Asus UX501 single core Asus UX501 multi-core

X1C2
4300U
single-core

X1C2
4300U
multi-core
ThinkPad Yoga
4200U
single
ThinkPad Yoga
4200U
multi
  3370 6991 2686 5364 2738 5411 2846 5661 2908 6133 3299 12089 2770 5289 2560 4777
integer 3353 7826 2649 5913 2688 5948 2880 6331 3009 7090 3384 13871 2716 5975 2454 5282
floating point 3294 7776 2638 5867 2678 5935 2872 6388 3019 7029 3396 14808 2696 5752 2444 5214
memory 3560 3755 2860 3260 3959 3292 2729 2871 2487 2429 2939 3091 3030 2992 3004 2897

PCMark

http://www.futuremark.com/benchmarks/pcmark

PCMark 8 Home

  Surface Book (Accelerated OpenCL) Surface Book (Conventional 2.5.419) ThinkPad Yoga 12 (2.0.228 accelerated 3.0) X1C3 (2.4.304)
Score 2922 2513 3156 3085
Test Duration 39 m 13 s 33 m 07 s 35 m 46 s 35 m 59 s
Web Browsing - JunglePin 0.38424 s 0.38293 s 0.32406 s 0.32439 s
Web Browsing - Amazonia 0.16389 s 0.16361 s 0.13418 s 0.13423 s
Writing 5.86848 s 5.88563 s 4.5 s 4.4 s
Casual Gaming 33.26 fps 33.16 fps 26 fps 26 fps
Video Chat v2 / Video Chat playback 1 v2 30.01 fps 29.99 fps 30 fps 30 fps
Video Chat v2 / Video Chat encoding v2 64.00000 ms 99.00000 ms 82 ms 84 ms
Advanced Photo Editing part 1 0.29573 s 0.58725 s 0.24269 s 0.28395 s

SiSoftware Sandra

http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/

2015-SP1a 21.32.2015.3

  Surface Book 2015 SP3 2147 ThinkPad Yoga 12 2015-SP1a 21.32.2015.3 X1C3 ThinkPad Yoga
4200U**
2014.05.20.28
ThinkPad Yoga
4300U*
X1 Carbon Gen 2
4300U
X1 Carbon W8E32 T430s W7E64 SSD T420s W7E64 SSD W520 W8E64 SSD
Score kPT 9.98 7.63 7.65 3.20 3.95/4.02 3.27 3.98 4.17
4.36 (2012-1845)
4.18 7.04
Aggregate Native Performance GOPS 50.73 40.71 40.81       34.75 49.22 43.19 80.87
Aggregate Multi-Media Native Performance MPix/s 134.36 92.15 92.33       64.88 111.00 98.06 185.78
Cryptographic Bandwidth GB/s 3.735 2.930 2.935       0.763 1.32 1.138 1.937
Aggregate Option Pricing Performance kOPT/s 8.47 6.67 6.65              
Aggregate Scientific Performance GFLOPS 11.88 10.16 10.62              
Aggregate .NET Performance GOPS 15.20 10.86 10.79       10.53 13.14 12.59 22.44
Aggregate Memory Performance GB/s 19.203 18.596 18.435       16.231 10.748 12.341 17.191
Memory Latency ns 44.3 30.4 28.9       55.1 26.6 26.6 29.2
Drive Score IOPS MB/s 489.389 434.360 435.597       396.608 422.204 420.774
(60.298 HDD 2011?)
506.368
Device Score IOPS 12271.3 12624.0 12871.8       10440.2 4162.3 9995.9 15286.9
Aggregate Shader Performance MPix/s (GP (GPU/CPU/APU) 193.89 91.16 89.12       126.61 73.95 32.48 126.40
Aggregate Option Pricing Performance kOPT/s (GP) 244.57 85.75 86.52              
Aggregate Scientific Performance GFLOPS (GP) 109.91 39.48 38.72              
Aggregate Memory Performance GB/s (GP) 6.941 10.212 9.856       6.474 5.850 5.855 11.026

2014 SP1C 20.25 -

* didn't completely finished test first time. mouse crashed on second time.

** Aggregate Memory not reported, OpenCL error 339

PassMark

http://www.passmark.com/

v8 build 1052

* DirectX 10 graphics test (one with tree) seems to hang, esc goes on to next (repeat twice got it going, got message 1680x1050 resolution failed)

  Surface Book ThinkPad Yoga 12 (v8 b1046) X1 Carbon Gen 3 Dell E7450 Asus UX501 X1 Carbon Gen 2 4300U Intel 240GB ThinkPad Yoga 4200U Samsung 128GB X1 Carbon W8E32 (v8) T430s (v7) T420s (v7)
Rating 3212 2026.1 2094.7 2136.7 3423.1 1764.5 1954.7 1558.1 1548.9 1061.1
CPU Mark 4788 3893 3921 4114 8905 3177 3574 2592 4535.0 3099.7
2D Graphics Mark 477.6 513 542 567 587 485.6 575 454 433.0 356.8
3D Graphics Mark 10341* 566 577 594 1205 423.2 519 432 478.2 300.7
Memory Mark 1998 1929 2012 1959 2229 1770 1864 1254 1324.5 948.2
Disk Mark 6929 2814 3088 2786 10362 4442 2527 3451 792.5 462.1

 

IntelBurnTest

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?197835-IntelBurnTest-The-new-stress-testing-program

v2.54

  Surface Book ThinkPad Yoga 12 X1 Carbon Gen 3 Dell XPS 13 5200U MBP13r2015e VM Asus UX501 X1 Carbon Gen 2 4300U ThinkPad Yoga
4200U
X1 Carbon
W8E32 (v2.54)
T430s (v2.53) T420s (v2.53)
Linepack (GFlops) 41.0359-46.9162 32.6463-33.5862 32.4892-36.3534 34.6988-35.6970 30.5470-38.5278 69.7684-75.0862 24.2526-27.5642 29.4538-32.9418 26.6-26.9 ~35-36  ~28-29
time (s) 19.053-21.783 26.615-27.381 24.589-27.513 25.013-25.761 23.201-29.263 11.905-12.812 32.429-36.857 27.135-30.349 33.2-33.5    

Thermal

FLIR i7 thermal camera - http://www.flir.com/thermography/americas/us/view/?id=54156

during IntelBurnTest

front

back

left

right

SSD

Samsung MZFLV256 NVMe

237GB capacity, 216GB free, 20.3GB used, 18.8GB system and reserved, 1.34GB apps and games

CrystalDiskInfo

http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html

both 6.5.2 or 6.6 alpha 1

don't work - disk not found

CrystalDiskMark

http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskMark/index-e.html

5.0.2 x64

(other data from 3.x)

  Surface Book 5.x ThinkPad Yoga 12 X1 Carbon Gen 3 Dell E7450 Dell XPS 13 Asus UX501 Yoga 3.03 X1 Carbon Gen 2 3.02e Helix 3.02e-X1 Carbon Win8E32 3.01-X1 Carbon Win7-64 W520 Intel 520 3.01-Win7-64 T430s Samsung 830
[MB/s] Read Write     Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write
Seq 891.0 303.7     523.4 238.1 529.3 241.6 490.5 264.1 476.9 265.6 1391 1401 503.4 418.0 482.6 318.2 445.8 183.5 429.6 178.1 433.4 247.1 487.9 403.5
512K         439.7 241.6 431.7 240.9 387.7 258.4 385.5 265.1 1004 1264 377.7 402.8 421.9 312.6 339.4 194.1 375.2 177.1 353.5 239.0 342.6 389.2
Seq Q32T1 1574 308.4                                                
4K 40.51 108.1     35.78 103.4 35.83 103.2 23.09 97.25 21.27 97.20 40.20 90.03 33.95 86.38 38.81 99.90 21.42 43.33 19.66 41.43 19.67 48.08 22.34 55.89
4K QD32         391.3 240.9 354.8 240.1 393.1 255.7 386.8 263.5 311.0 316.7 326.8 291.9 201.1 124.1 266.2 167.4 132.7 174.2 229.7 231.6 303.6 151.3
4K Q32T1 402.2 270.2                                                

Anvil's Storage Utilities

http://www.thessdreview.com/daily-news/latest-buzz/anvil-storage-utilities-releases-new-storage-and-ssd-benchmark/

1.1 2014

  Surface Book ThinkP Yoga 12 X1 Carbon Gen 3 Asus UX501 ThinkPad Yoga 128GB Samsung 256GB Lite-On 4200U Intel 240GB 4300U X1C2 128GB Samsung 4200U
  2783.68 4040.50 4072.80 6089.61 2994.40 3499.14 3,292.61 2699.12
Read 2649.75 2049.63 2096.87 3484.81 1899.34 1719.02 1,879.18 1717.11
Write 133.93 1990.87 1975.93 2604.80 1095.05 1780.11 1,413.43 982.01

 

AS SSD

http://alex-is.de/PHP/fusion/downloads.php?download_id=9

1.7.4739.38088

  Surface Book ThinkPad Yoga 12 X1 Carbon Gen 3 Dell XPS 13 Asus UX501 X1 Carbon Gen 2 4200U Samsung 128 ThinkPad Yoga
128GB Samsung MZ7TD128HAFV
ThinkPad Yoga 256GB Lite-On LCS-256M6S X1 Carbon Gen 2 4200U LiteOn 256 LGT-256M6G X1 Carbon Gen 2 4300U Intel 240 Sony VAIO Pro 13 Helix X1 Carbon W8E32 Intel 521 Taichi DH71 W8-64 SanDisk X100 256 T420s W7E64 SSD Crucial m4 256 W520 W8E64 SSD Samsung 840 Pro 256
  Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write
Seq MB/s 1166.76 89.87 506.39 231.20 507.90 230.54 478.43 249.45 1392.53 1102.09 497.32 127.20 507.95 125.24 487.51 412.39 483.63 405.74 502.41 301.85 1103.7 702.45 431.23 191.37 460.82 144.24 425.79 334.97 497.34 236.56 495.07 428.16
4K MB/s 37.53 0.90 32.50 88.29 32.38 88.31 20.70 83.58 35.23 76.57 23.49 68.92 27.64 80.15 31.42 73.90 27.92 59.28 21.08 87.71 28.19 72.68 19.37 46.60 17.71 36.66 19.94 37.80 15.77 47.41 20.96 56.06
4K-64 Thrd MB/s 590.97 40.25 343.04 158.41 287.56 165.22 396.22 125.14 818.06 365.57 312.66 94.40 316.32 97.27 302.24 254.33 214.31 193.71 209.83 213.81 408.85 225.73 260.56 116.36 132.65 131.29 300.55 158.42 177.53 168.36 379.90 247.79
Acc.time ms 0.052 4.333 0.061 0.038 0.055 0.038 0.157 0.040 0.048 0.048 0.032 0.052 0.078 0.042 0.058 0.049 failed failed 0.151 0.231 0.087 .055 0.122 0.362 0.195 0.284 0.134 0.100 0.124 0.522 0.113 0.044
Score 745 50 426 270 371 277 465 234 993 552 386 176 395 190 382 369 291 294 281 332 547 369 323 182 196 182 363 230 243 239 450 347
  1133 835 930 2044 748 777 955 739 754 1183 664 470 780 599 1029

ATTO Disk Benchmark

http://www.attotech.com/products/product.php?sku=Disk_Benchmark

BlackMagic

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/intensity/software

Disk Speed Test

10.5 2015/09/02

cannot run correctly at 200%, text too big. read test starts at 300, then 600, 900, cap at 1100 each time runs

USB 3.0

SSD to internal SSD

max.

293 MBps transfer

314 MBps write

306 MBps read

to/from external Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SATA-III ASMT 2105 SCSI UASP StarTech enclosure http://www.startech.com/HDD/Enclosures/USB-3-SATA-III-Hard-Drive-Enclosure-UASP-Support~S2510BPU33

and Seagate Fast 4TB

http://www.seagate.com/external-hard-drives/portable-hard-drives/performance/backup-plus-fast-hdd/

GPU-Z

http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

0.8.5

Wireless

Marvell AVASTAR Wireless-AC

Netgear Nighthawk R7500 AC2350 (600+1733 Mbps) http://downloadcenter.netgear.com/en/product/R7500 wave 2 Quantenna chipset firmware 1.0.0.46 -> 1.0.0.82 http://downloadcenter.netgear.com/en/product/R7500 -

max. 497Mbps/56.3MBps - download from QNAP 4 (5-8 of 8 bays) SSD (2x 850 Pro 512 + 2x MX100 CT512) RAID6 TVS-871 (i7-4790S, 16GB, QTS 4.1.3 build 20150313) https://www.qnap.com/i/en/product/model.php?II=160

max. 566Mbps/64.7MBps (66.14MBps on server side) - upload to OCZ Vertex 460A + MX200 CT250 + SanDisk XPS240Gx2

Netgear Nighthawk R7000 AC 1900 (600+1300) (firmware V1.0.3.24_1.1.20) 802.11ac http://www.netgear.com/home/products/networking/wifi-routers/R7000.aspx

max. 234Mbps/27.1MBps - download from QNAP 6x Seagate ST3000DM001-9YN1CC4H RAID6 TS-659 Pro II 1GB, QTS 4.1.3 build 20150313) or Synology DiskStation DS1511+ Atom D525 1.8GHz 1GB DSM 5.1-5004 SHR 5x ST2000DL003-9VT166

 

TamoSoft Throughput Test

Ver. 1.0 Build 28

http://www.tamos.com/products/throughput-test/

server: ThinkPad Yoga on Ethernet w/ Belkin GigE USB 3.0

client crashes after few minutes

  Surface Book ThinkPad Yoga 12 X1C3 MBP13r2015e
TCP Up (Mbps) 112.24 82.83 106.29 58.43
TCP Down (Mbps) 120.03 87.14 123.89 78.52
UDP Up (Mbps) 149.07 - Loss 32.7% 72.68 - Loss 0.1% 117.71 - Loss 0.0% 64.45 - Loss 31.4%
UDP Down (Mbps) 149.21 - Loss 78.9% 93.70 - Loss 87.9% 141.09 - Loss: 81.5% 157.95 - Loss 83.7%
Rout-trip time RTT (ms) 2.9 5.2 2.1 3.6

Speedtest

http://www.speedtest.net/

SD

Samsung Pro 64GB MicroSD XC read 90MB/s. write 80MB/s UHS-1 Class 10 MB-MG64DA/DM with SD adapter

<84.4MBps transfer, burst 208MBps write to internal

SunSpider

http://www.webkit.org/perf/sunspider/sunspider.html

1.0.2

ms Surface Book ThinkPad Yoga 12 X1C3 Dell E7450 Apple MBP13r (early 2015) Asus UX501 ThinkPad Yoga S1 X1 Carbon Gen 2 X1 Carbon W8E32 Taichi W8-64 T430s W7E32 HDD T420s W7E32 mSATA W520 W8E64 SSD
Edge 93.9                        
IE

92.6
(11.0.10240.16431 11.0.22)

111.3 124.4 (11.0.9600.17728) 103.7   87.1 105.8 113.5 (11.0.9600.16521 update 11.0.4) 141.7 (10 desktop) 120.6 (10 desktop) 129.9 (10 metro) 183.9 (9) 203.3 (9) 113.0 (10 desktop)
FF 216.9 (42.0) 192.4 192.6 212.7

160.4 (37.0.1)

154.5 (31.6.0 ESR)

170.8 181.2 (28.0 no addons/plugins)
191.2 (27.0.1)
  231.6 (19.0.1) 211.4 (19.0.1) 188.7 (19.0) 203.1 (19.0) 197.7 (19.0.1)
Chrome   213.9 206.6 (42.0.2311.90m) 220.0 180.3 (41.0.2272.118)   194.1   204.8 (25.0.1364.97) 190.2 (25.0.1364.97) 175.3 (25.0.1364.97) 194.7 (25.0.1364.97)

169.2 (25.0.1364.152)

Safari         139.6 (8.0.5)                

JetStream

http://browserbench.org/JetStream/

ms Surface Book Geometric Mean Surface Book Latency Surface Book Throughput
Edge 186.41 ± 28.469 149.22 ± 44.702 221.75 ± 7.7656
IE    

 

FF 42.0 162.67 ± 4.4407 80.454 ± 1.9045 280.28 ± 11.654
Chrome      
Safari      
Vivaldi      

 

CPU-Z

http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html

1.7.4 crashed at 22-25%

HWInfo

http://www.hwinfo.com/

5.06

Monitor - Panasonic MEI96A2 VVX14P048M00

Battery #0 - SMP 51000 mWh, FCC 53190 mWh

Battery #1 - DYN 17902 mWh, FCC 18772 mWh

Spec

Price

education discount 10%

Accessories

Bluetooth

Marvell AVASTAR Bluetooth

Camera

indoor fluorescent lights

DKC-Pro - Digital Kolor Card Pro - digitalimagflow.com (defuncted) http://www.dgkcolortools.com/dkc-pro-multifunction-color-tool.html

click to see full images

front

 

back

Audio

Realtek SST

DPC Latency Checker

http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml

1.3.0

setup failed - InstallDrv: DeleteFile failed with error 0x00000005

Security

TPM 2.0

Sensors

Sdo sensor V2?

Device Manager

it is a very long one

Apps

it is a very long too

Surface App

adjust pen pressure sensitivity

Battery

powercfg /batteryreport

SYSTEM PRODUCT NAME Microsoft Corporation Surface Book
BIOS 88.822.769 09/22/2015
OS BUILD 10240.16545.amd64fre.th1.150930-1750
PLATFORM ROLE Mobile
CONNECTED STANDBY Supported

BATTERY 1 BATTERY 2
NAME X906971 X906980
MANUFACTURER DYN SMP
CHEMISTRY LION LION
DESIGN CAPACITY 17,902 mWh 51,000 mWh
FULL CHARGE CAPACITY 18,945 mWh 53,175 mWh

initial Design Capacity: 68892-68902 mWh, FCC 72308-73241 mWh

playing 2560x1440 videos in VLC - 5 hours
Design Capacity: 68902 mWh - 4h52m45s
FCC 72209 mWh - 5h06m48s

playing DVD (only <6% screen)

to charge back to 100% full

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