Surface Laptop Ultra trails MacBook Pro in benchmarks, reviews find

Macworld compared Microsoft's new Surface Laptop Ultra with its Nvidia RTX Spark N1X chip against Apple's MacBook Pro. In Geekbench 7 and Cinebench 2024 the Nvidia chip falls behind the M5 Pro and even the A18 Pro in single-core tests, while battery life reached about 8 hours versus 20 for Apple. The tested $3,699 configuration costs more than a 16-inch MacBook Pro with M5 Pro at $3,599.

• RTX Spark N1X loses to A18 Pro in single-core Geekbench 7
• Nvidia chip is 21% slower than 15-core M5 Pro in multi-core
• Surface Laptop Ultra battery life is about 8 hours vs 20 for MacBook Pro
• $3,699 configuration costs more than $3,599 MacBook Pro 16 with M5 Pro