The consumer-facing SKUs won’t be gaming powerhouses, but Microsoft says it’s shooting to play newer games at 1080p at 60 frames per second, a goal the GTX 1660 Ti unit should be able to hit with various titles. (The base model, meanwhile, only uses Intel’s integrated Iris Plus graphics.) Microsoft will also offer 15-inch configurations with an Nvidia Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q GPU-which is better suited for graphics-intensive design work-but only through its commercial channels.

The 13.5-inch model now comes with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q GPU with 4GB of GDDR5 memory in its Core i7 variant, while the 15-inch unit features a GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q with 6GB of GDDR6 memory. The 15-inch model comes with 16GB of RAM by default.įurther Reading Intel’s line of notebook CPUs gets more confusing with 14nm Comet LakeLike its predecessors, the Surface Book 3 is differentiated from other Surface devices by its support for dedicated graphics cards. But you can now pair those Intel processors with up to 32GB of LPDDR4x RAM, a step up from the 16GB LPDDR3 maximum of the Surface Book 2. Unlike Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 3 ultrabook, there are no configurations with AMD chips here. You get the choice of a quad-core Core i5-1035G7 or a quad-core Core i7-1065G7 with the 13.5-inch model, while the 15-inch Surface Book 3 comes with the latter by default. The Surface Book 3 now comes with Intel’s 10 th-gen Core chips-the 10nm Ice Lake ones, not the less-efficient Comet Lake CPUs based on Intel’s older 14nm process. The keyboard has no apparent changes, either, which is largely a good thing. The new models have the exact same dimensions (23mm thick in laptop mode) and weight (3.38-4.2 lbs.) as before, and the display resolutions are still nice and crisp (3000×2000 for the 13.5-inch model, 3240×2160 for the 15-inch one).

It’s nearly identical in design to its predecessor: it still has a ridged “fulcrum” hinge that leaves a slight gap above the keyboard when closed it’s still available with a 13.5- or 15-inch display and that display can still detach completely from the rest of the laptop and work as a giant Windows tablet. The Surface Book 3 immediately slots in as the highest-end notebook in Microsoft’s family of PCs.

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