{"id":1911228,"date":"2026-04-30T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1911228"},"modified":"2026-04-30T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T14:00:00","slug":"new-microsoft-surface-laptop-specs-leaked-in-benchmark-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1911228","title":{"rendered":"New Microsoft Surface Laptop specs leaked in benchmark test"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An unreleased Microsoft Surface Laptop popped up in benchmark listings. Here’s what they reveal.<\/h1>\n
Surface Laptop 8 with Panther Lake incoming…?<\/div>\n
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\n Haley Henschel is a Chicago-based Senior Shopping Reporter at Mashable who reviews and finds deals on popular tech, from laptops to gaming consoles and VPNs. She has years of experience covering shopping holidays and can tell you what\u2019s actually worth buying on Black Friday and Amazon Prime Day. Her work has also explored the driving forces behind digital trends within the shopping sphere, from dupes<\/a> to 12-foot skeletons<\/a>.\n <\/div>\n

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The current Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 was released back in May 2024.<\/span>Credit: Joe Maldonado \/ Mashable<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Microsoft’s stellar Surface Laptop<\/a> is overdue for a refresh, and we just got some pretty concrete evidence that a new model is coming soon.<\/p>\n

An unreleased Surface Laptop 8th Edition with an Intel Panther Lake<\/a> processor and a 13.8-inch display appeared in two Geekbench 6 listings earlier this week. The listings<\/a>, which were viewed by Mashable and captured in screenshots<\/a> by Notebookcheck<\/a>, were removed by Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

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Primate Labs’ Geekbench 6<\/a> is a popular benchmark for measuring devices’ CPU performance. (We run it on every laptop we review<\/a>.) Geekbench 6 results are automatically uploaded to a public online database unless the user enters a paid license key. Presumably, someone at Microsoft or Intel forgot to do so before benchmarking the device in question. <\/p>\n

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Microsoft hasn’t confirmed any new Surface PCs for 2026 yet, though it announced significant price hikes<\/a> for its current-gen devices earlier this month, citing “recent increases in memory and component costs.” When reached for comment about this week’s Geekbench 6 leak, a rep for the company said, “Microsoft has nothing further to share at this time.”<\/p>\n

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What the leak tells us<\/h2>\n

The mysterious Surface Laptop’s Geekbench 6 results revealed that it runs on a high-end Intel Core Ultra X7 368H chip with Arc B390 graphics and 32GB of RAM, per Notebookcheck’s screenshots. It scores on par with other newer Windows laptops<\/a> powered by the slightly lesser Core Ultra X7 358H chip, and with the M5 MacBook Air<\/a> (in multi-core scenarios like video editing).<\/p>\n

SEE ALSO:<\/span>Memory wars: Microsoft announces big price increases for Surface laptops<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n

The laptop’s full name is “Microsoft Corporation Surface Laptop for Business 13.8in 8th Ed Intel,” indicating that Microsoft will continue to earmark Intel configurations for business customers. The company originally launched<\/a> its current Surface Laptop 7 with Qualcomm Snapdragon X series processors in May 2024; pricier enterprise models with Intel Core Ultra Series 2 chips arrived in January 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 came in two sizes and four colors: platinum, sapphire, dune, and black.<\/span>Credit: Microsoft<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

That schedule might be flipped for the next generation. Earlier this month, Windows Central<\/a> reported that Microsoft is planning on releasing Intel-based Surface Laptops and Surface Pros this spring. Snapdragon X2 variants for consumers will likely follow later in the summer, possibly due to supply shortages of those chips.<\/p>\n

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