


All test results are the standard 10-minute test except for the last. I ran Cinebench on my Surface Laptop 4 a couple of times. They did not specify on which power mode it got those results from, for the benefit of the doubt we are going to assume it's Recommended, which is the setting the laptop will run on out of the box. Notebookcheck's test on the i7-1185G7 version reveals that it scored 5139 points on Cinebench r23. I'm planning to buy a DELL M.2 2230 512GB SSD (a rebranded Toshiba BG4) later on.

I did not test the GPU performance, from tests done by Notebookcheck it can be expected that the Intel Xe 96 GPU will perform significantly better than the Vega 6, but I have a desktop for playing games. The i7 has better single-core performance, but I don't consider it to be worth the price difference. Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 13.5 Laptop (AMD Ryzen 5 4680U/ 16GB/ 256GB SSD/ Win11) vs HP Victus 15-Fa0117TX Laptop (12th Gen Core i5/ 16GB/ 512GB SSD/ Win11 Home/ 4GB Graph) Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 13.5 Laptop (AMD Ryzen 5 4680U/ 16GB/ 256GB SSD/ Win11) vs HP 15s-fr4000TU Laptop (11th Gen Core i5/ 8GB/ 512GB SSD/ Win11 Home) Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 13.5 Laptop (AMD Ryzen 5 4680U/ 16GB/ 256GB SSD/ Win11) vs Infinix INBook Y1 Plus Neo X元0 Laptop (Intel Celeron N5100/ 8GB/ 512GB SSD/ Win 11 Home) Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 13.5 Laptop (AMD Ryzen 5 4680U/ 16GB/ 256GB SSD/ Win11) vs Asus Vivobook Pro 16 K6602HC-N1902WS Gaming Laptop (11th Gen Core i9/ 16GB/ 512GB SSD/ Win11/ 4GB Graph) Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 13.5 Laptop (AMD Ryzen 5 4680U/ 16GB/ 256GB SSD/ Win11) vs Samsung Galaxy Book2 Pro 360 13 Laptop (12th Gen Core i5/ 16GB/ 512GB SSD/ Win11) Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 13.TL DR: From my tests running Cinebench r23, the AMD Ryzen 5 4680U 16GB RAM 256GB SSD version is at least on par with the i7-1185G7 16GB RAM 512GB SSD version, if not better, on multi-core performance while being hundreds of dollars cheaper, even after factoring in the costs of buying another SSD to upgrade it from 256GB to 512GB.
