The first Copilot+ PC has been tested — and it destroys the MacBook

We’ve heard a lot about Microsoft ’s new Copilot + PCs over the past few days, but we can finally put some hard data to the company’s bold claims. Signal65, a benchmarking and analysis company, put the new Surface Laptop through its paces, and it absolutely wrecks the MacBook Air M3.

In raw performance, the MacBook Air M3 won out in single-core performance in both Cinebench and Geekbench by around 15%. However, in multi-core performance, the Surface Laptop was upwards of 30% faster than the M3. Even more impressive, the Snapdragon X Elite was more than twice as fast as 12th-gen Intel Core i7 chip, and around 5% faster than Intel’s latest Core Ultra 7 155H.

Recommended Videos It’s important to point out that this isn’t a review of a Copilot+ PC, though. The report was compiled by Ryan Shrout, an ex-Intel employee who’s now a part of Signal65, and it was commissioned by Microsoft. Companies like Microsoft will often hire a third-party analysis lab for this sort of performance validation to substantiate its performance claims. That isn’t to say that the report is inaccurate, but just that a wider swath of reviews can target more areas of performance.

In Blender, for example, the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H was around 46% faster, while the Apple M3 was 17% faster. On the flip side, the Snapdragon X Elite managed to match the performance of the Core Ultra 7 155H in Lightroom Classic, despite the Intel chip running a native version of the app.

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