Smaller display (13.5- vs 15-inch) with a lower resolution (3000 x 2000 vs 3240 x 2160), but a slightly higher dots-per-inch (267 DPI vs 260).NVIDIA GTX 1050 with 2GB video memory instead of an NVIDIA GTX 1060 with 6GB.No fan for the CPU in the tablet half of the Surface Book 2 13.Core i7 with a thermal design point (TDP) of 15W compared to more powerful 20W in the 15-inch.There is a fan in the base for the NVIDIA GTX 1050 GPU.įor storage, at least with the 1TB version, Microsoft is using a Samsung PCIe NVMe solid-state drive (SDD), which is an excellent choice for concerned about performance.Īs summarized, here is how the Surface Book 2 13 with Core i7 differs from the 15-inch variant: That matters less for running a web browser or Windows Store apps and more for CPU-intensive applications like CAD, video and photo rendering, 3D model makers, or crunching large amounts of data in Excel or engineering applications.Īlthough the Surface Book 2 15 also has the same Core i7-8650U processor it has a higher thermal-design point (TDP) at 20W versus just 15W for this 13-inch Surface Book 2.īest Microsoft Surface Book Accessories of 2017 (Image credit: Windows Central)Īs a tradeoff, however, the 13-inch model does not have any fan for the CPU in the tablet area, making it very quiet. Up until now, only more massive laptops with 45W processors were quad-core, but now Ultrabooks with 15W motherboards can get double the cores and threads. The big deal here with the Core i7 processor is it is the brand-new 8th generation version that goes from a dual-core to quad-core.
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