Microsoft Surface Pro 3 Review

Name: Microsoft Surface Pro 3 Review
Brand: Microsoft

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, May 29, 2014, 12:00 PM EDT

Cinebench R11.5’s GPU benchmark uses a 3D scene depicting a car chase, which measures the performance of a graphics card using OpenGL. The CPU and GPU have to process a large amount of geometry (nearly 1 million polygons) and textures, as well as a variety of effects, such as bump maps, transparency, lighting and more. Results are reported in frames per second.

Cinebench R15 OpenGL Test

3D Rendering

The ThinkPad X1 Carbon put up a slightly better score than the Surface Pro 3 here, but one again, Microsoft's latest flagship convertible device finishes near the top of the charts.

3DMark Cloud Gate

More DirectX Testing

The Surface Pro 3 just barely squeaked past the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbone here in terms of its overall Cloud Gate score, though the ThinkPad's Physics and Game Test 1 scores were slightly higher.

Tags: Intel, Mobile, Microsoft, Core, tablet, Surface Pro, HiDPI

Marco Chiappetta

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