![]() ![]() Getting around eight hours of battery life in this benchmark would have been a good result from the Cherry Trail Atom-based Surface 3, considering its size and performance profile, but it disappointingly fell a few hours short.įor intensive gaming the Surface 3 performed decently, but it's unlikely you'll be able to do more than a few hours of consecutive gaming on this tablet without plugging the device into its included 13W micro-USB charger. Microsoft Surface Pro 8, i7-1185G7 (Surface Pro Series) Processor Intel Core i7-1185G74 x 3 - 4.8 GHz, 54 W PL2 / Short Burst, 29 W PL1 / Sustained, Tiger Lake UP3 Graphics adapter. In this benchmark the Surface 3 lasted just as long as the ThinkPad Helix, but fell well short of the Miix 2 8, which is an 8-inch Bay Trail tablet. In our intensive Wi-Fi browsing benchmark, I was again disappointed with the Surface 3's results. Running one of our older video playback benchmarks showed that the Surface 2 outlasted the Surface 3 as well, which isn't too surprising considering the Surface 3's performance increase. ![]() It also performed worse than the other tablets I had tested with, including the similarly-sized Lenovo ThinkPad Helix that features a more powerful Intel Core M processor. ![]() ![]() For starters, the tablet fell three hours short of Microsoft's video playback battery life figure, which indicates the company tested with a lower display brightness than I did. This isn't spectacular for a 10-inch class tablet, where I would like to see at least 10 hours of usage from a full charge, but at the same time I didn't think that seven hours of life was inadequate by any means.įrom our battery life benchmarks, the Surface 3's battery life was disappointing. While I don't think the Surface 3 is the sort of device you'll sit down and use for an entire day, I did achieve around seven hours of typical usage between charges. Despite the Pro 3 coming with a larger battery than the Surface 3, Microsoft claims the Surface 3 will last an hour longer during video playback (10 hours versus 9 hours).ĭuring my time using the Surface 3 over the course of a few weeks, I found the tablet's battery life to be acceptable. The Surface Pro 3 comes with a significantly larger 42 Wh battery, which is needed for the more power hungry Intel Haswell CPU and the slightly larger display. Inside the Surface 3 is a 28 Wh battery, which is fairly average for a tablet of this size. ![]()
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