The details about chipset on Microsoft’s Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 have emerged and now you can include this information to base your decision to go for a particular Surface Book or Surface Pro 4 model. It seems that in case of Surface Book there is not much difference between two processors. Only major difference is the clocking speed being higher in case of i7 vs i5 processor. In case of Surface Pro 4 however there may be significant difference between the performance and thing like Battery life between the models.
Core i5-6300U models may be a good choice in both cases considering Performance vs Price vs Reliability metrics.
Surface Book:
- 6th Gen 2.6-GHz Intel Core i7-6600U processor with Intel HD graphics 520
- 6th Gen 2.4-GHz Intel Core i5-6300U processor with Intel HD graphics 520
Intel has a comparison chart of the two chips on its site.
Surface Pro 4:
- 6th Gen 2.2-GHz Intel Core i7-6650U processor with Intel Iris graphics 540
- 6th Gen 2.4-GHz Intel Core i5-6300U processor with Intel HD graphics 520
- 6th Gen 900-MHz Intel Core m3-6Y30 processor with Intel HD graphics 515
You can compare these three chips on Intel’s site, here.
Coming to GPU while not everything is clear, it is a Maxwell based GPU with GDDR5 memory. It’s an “8M” and has a 1GB GDDR5 frame buffer.
You can pre-order the devices by going to Microsoft Store or you can choose other retailers.
