2024 is the year of Windows on ARM, and another new piece of hardware from Microsoft, the “Surface Laptop 6” with the flagship Snapdragon X Elite, has been spotted in four new benchmarks. The Surface Laptop 6 runs the Snapdragon X Elite X1E80100, which was previously spotted in the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge (another Windows on ARM PC).
As Microsoft watcher Zac Bowden previously reported, Microsoft has been working on two new Surface products – the Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6. Windows Latest has already posted benchmarks of the Surface Pro 10 with Snapdragon X Plus. Thanks to new Geekbench listings, we know more about the Surface Laptop 6.
According to Geekbench listings, as many as four devices codenamed “OEMBR OEMBR” have been benchmarked, scoring close to 14,100 in multi-thread tests. It also fetched up to 2,745 in single-core tests, which is impressive. The device is running in a “balanced” state and the numbers may go higher in performance mode.
| System | Platform | Single-Core Score | Multi-Core Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surface Laptop 6 | Windows 11 | 2,714 | 14,078 | |
| Surface Laptop 6 | Windows 11 | 2,745 | 13,970 | |
| Surface Laptop 6 | Windows 11 | 2,730 | 13,788 | |
| Surface Laptop 6 | Windows 11 | 2,613 | 13,788 |
Surface Laptop with Snapdragon X Elite is as powerful as the Apple MacBook Pro with M3 Pro chip. Here’s a table that compares the two devices:
| System | Platform | Single-Core Score | Multi-Core Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MacBook Pro (16-inch, Nov 2023) | macOS | 3040 | 15307 | |
| Surface Laptop 6 | Windows | 2745 | 13970 | |
| MacBook Pro (14-inch, Nov 2023) | macOS | 3125 | 15124 | |
| Surface Laptop 6 | Windows | 2714 | 14078 |
The listings do not mention Microsoft or Surface branding for obvious anti-leak measures.
In fact, the device is shown as running “snapdragon 8cx gen 3 4012 MHz”, which doesn’t even exist.
That’s not the first time Microsoft has faked the CPU in the benchmarks, and it’s all part of the anti-leak measures. The benchmarked device in question is the Surface Laptop 6 running Snapdragon X Elite 12-core chip with 16GB of RAM, NPU, and Windows 11 version 24H2.
“OEMxx” is a codename typically used for all Surface products where the “xx” represents different Surface products:
- OEMBR – Surface Laptop with Qualcomm
- OEMMN – Surface Pro 10
- OEMSA – Surface Laptop SE
- OEMML – Surface Laptop
Microsoft doesn’t want you to know the specs of the Surface Laptop 6, so it even tried to fake the CPU information, which is why you’d see “Snapdragon 8cx gen 3 4012 MHz” in the above benchmark screenshots.
However, it’s the Snapdragon X Elite (X1E80100, specifically) which also powers the Galaxy Book4 Edge.