Microsoft is working on Surface Laptop Studio 2, a convertible computer that will continue the legacy of the Surface Laptop Studio original and that will maintain both its design and its possibilities of use. Everything seems to indicate that the most important changes that this team will bring will focus on the hardware, and according to a recent leak, the generational leap that it will mark in this regard.
That generational leap will be marked by two big keys, the processor and the graphics card. Surface Laptop Studio 2 will be configured with Intel Raptor Lake-H processorsand according to a recent leak, the most powerful configuration will peak at an Intel Core i7-13800H, a chip that has 6 high-performance cores with HyperThreading and 8 high-efficiency cores, for a total of 20 threads.
The jump compared to the Core Gen11 that the first model used is enormous, and it can be seen in a first filtered performance test that we can see in the attached graph. Surface Laptop Studio 2 doubles the performance at the CPU level in multithreading if we compare it with the Surface Laptop Studio, and it far exceeds it in single thread.
To this we must also add that the Surface Laptop Studio 2 is going to use a GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile, a next-generation graphics solution based on the Ada Lovelace architecture that will have 3,072 shaders, 96 texturing units, 96 tensor cores, 32 raster units, 24 RT cores, 128-bit bus and 8 GB of 16 GHz GDDR6 memory. graphics card will be compatible with all the technologies introduced by Ada Lovelace, including DLSS 3 and frame generation.
The Surface Laptop Studio 2 will feature the same display as 14.4 inches that we saw in the original model, and this one will have a 120 Hz refresh rate (adaptive). We don’t have details on screen resolution, but we imagine it will be 2,400 x 1,600 pixels. For the rest, this equipment will come configured with up to 64 GB of RAM memory and with a PCIe Gen4 SSD of up to 2 TB capacity.
If all goes according to plan, the launch should happen between the second and third quarter of this year, although nothing is confirmed yet, so that term could change. The retail price is unknown, but the cost of the base configuration is likely to stay more or less at the same level as what we saw on the original Surface Laptop Studio.
