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Geekbench 4.0 benchmarks (higher is better)

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DeviceCPUSingle coreMulti core
Surface Book 2 15i7-8650U5,03614,237
Surface Book 2 13i7-8650U4,86214,694
XPS 15 (9560)i7-7700HQ4,50313,587
Razer Blade 2017i7-7700HQ4,27713,597
Surface Laptop i7i7-7660U4,7149,535
Surface Pro 2017i7-7660U4,5139,346
Surface Booki7-6600U3,9777,486

Geekbench 4.0 CUDA (higher is better)

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LaptopGPUScore
Razer Blade 2017GTX 1060138,758
Surface Book 2 15GTX 1060132,785
Surface Book 2 13GTX 105075,665
XPS 15GTX 105075,636
Surface BookGTX 965M59,945

Geekbench 4.0 OpenCL (higher is better)

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DeviceGPUCompute score
Surface Book 2 15GTX 1060123,602
Surface Book 2 13GTX 105072,677
Surface BookGTX 965M64,108
Surface Laptop i7Iris 64031,010
Surface Pro 2017Iris 64030,678
Surface BookHD52018,197

CrystalDiskMark (higher is better)

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DeviceReadWrite
Surface Book 2 1TB1,411 MB/s1,202 MB/s
Surface Laptop i7486 MB/s244 MB/s
Surface Pro 20171,284 MB/s963 MB/s
Surface Book 1TB1,018 MB/s967 MB/s
Surface Laptop i5423 MB/s237 MB/s

Gears of War 4 UWP

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LaptopResolutionGraphics presetsV-SyncAverage frame rate
Surface Book 2 15"Medium1620 x 1080Off96 FPS
Surface Book 2 13"Medium1620 x 1080Off65 FPS
Surface Book P. BaseMedium1620 x 1080Off47 FPS
Daniel Rubino
Daniel Rubino
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Daniel Rubino is the Editor-in-chief of Windows Central. He is also the head reviewer, podcast co-host, and analyst. He has been covering Microsoft since 2007 when this site was called WMExperts (and later Windows Phone Central). His interests include Windows, laptops, next-gen computing, and wearable tech. He has reviewed laptops for over 10 years and is particularly fond of 2-in-1 convertibles, Arm64 processors, new form factors, and thin-and-light PCs. Before all this tech stuff, he worked on a Ph.D. in linguistics, performed polysomnographs in NYC, and was a motion-picture operator for 17 years.