INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Finally, Microsoft has unveiled its latest devices and innovations at its much anticipated October 2 Event
Ryzen 7 processor (CPU).The Surface Laptop 3 is now available in 13- and 15-inch models
And, as we speculated, Microsoft's light and thin laptop will now boast the coveted 10nm Ice Lake chips, not to mention the
all-but-necessary USB-C ports
Microsoft co-engineered with AMD
chips in the 15-inch Surface Laptop 3 models are processors that consist of custom AMD APUs with Radeon RX Vega graphics processors (GPUs),
and are built on Zen+ and designed to run at 15 watts (W).Specifically crafted for the Surface Laptop 3, these processors essentially take
the graphics core architecture of Xbox One
CPU AMD has ever produced and being the fastest in its class as far as graphics performance have been thrown around, even capable of scaling
shared by Tom's Hardware.Cores / ThreadsBase / Boost (GHz)GraphicsProcessTDPRyzen 7 3780U "Surface Edition"4 / 82.3 / 4.0Radeon RX Vega 11
(11 CU) @ 1.4 GHz12nm / Zen+15WRyzen 5 3580U "Surface Edition"4 / 82.1 / 3.7Radeon RX Vega 9 (9CU) @ 1.3 GH12nm / Zen+15WWhat does this mean
for you?Technical jargon aside, what this simply means for you is this: with that additional graphics core unit, these chips will allow the
Surface Laptop 3 to effortlessly handle demanding content creation tasks and even gaming
In fact, according to The Verge, Microsoft has claimed that the AMD Ryzen 7 Surface Edition will help the Surface Laptop 3 to outperform a
will still offer impressive longevity and blazing-fast charging, Microsoft has also designed it for the consumer market
It supports FreeSync, but it also only comes with WiFi 5 and DDR4-2400 RAM, whereas the Ice Lake chips come with WiFi 6 and support for
LPDDR4X-3733 RAM.Additionally, the Ice Lake configurations are targeted at commercial and business users, which means that if your computing
demands are higher than those of the typical consumer, the AMD Ryzen 7 Surface Edition may not suffice.Of course, you will have to wait and
see until we do a full review of the Surface Laptop 3 touting a AMD Ryzen 7 Surface Edition processor to know exactly how it rivals its
Intel counterpart and the MacBook Pro.
