Surface Laptop 6 and Surface Pro 10 benchmarks spotted ahead of their reveal

Business or even consumer versions of the Surface Laptop 6 and Surface Pro 10 are expected to be announced in a few weeks on March 21, but the party might have been spoiled a bit. Some leaked benchmarks have already hinted at device performance ahead of that reveal.

Seemingly confirming the rumors that the devices are expected to sport Intel Core Ultra parts under the hood, those benchmarks show we could get Intel Core 5 135U and Intel Core 5 135H variants of these next-generation Surface products. The Surface Laptop 6 could come with the Intel Core 5 135H and the  Surface Pro 10 the Intel Core 5 135U. There are no benchmarks yet for the rumored Qualcomm versions which aren’t too surprising as the Snapdragon X Elite isn’t expected until June.

Anyway, the leaked benchmarks were first noted by the German Blog WinFuture on March 6 and also picked up again by Windows Latest just a few days later. Of course, benchmark listings can easily be manipulated, but there seem to be multiple listings on Geekbench for devices that have the code names OEMML, and OEMHT. OEMML could likely be the Surface Laptop 6, and the OEMHT could be the Surface Pro 10.

The OEMML product sports the 28W Intel Core Ultra 5 135H CPU, which packs in 14 cores and runs at 4.4 GHz. As for the OEMHT product, it packs in a lower-power 15W Intel Core Ultra 5 135U CPU, which has 12 cores and runs at 4.6 GHz maximum.

Looking at the results of the benchmarks, OEMML, or the supposed Surface Laptop 6, puts up a maximum of 1,464 Single-Core score, and a maximum of 8,633 Multi-Core score. OEMHT, or the supposed Surface Pro 10, puts up a maximum 1551 Single-Core score, and a maximum 7,168 Multi-Core score. Both benchmarks were on devices with 8GB RAM. As a reference, last year’s Surface Laptop 5 put up a 1,054 Single-Core score and an 8,266 Multi-Core score, so there are some gains here. As for Surface Pro 9, it’s a 1,638 Single-Core Score, and a 6,982 Mult-Core score, for around the same performance.

Again, benchmarks aren’t truly telling of device performance, but these supposed results could show some nice gains, especially since the Core 5 135H CPU features Intel Arc graphics. When you consider that the Surface Laptop 6 might bring slight design changes to the screen new connectivity and a haptic touchpad, and Surface Pro 10 a new OLED screen, the upgrade to these Intel-based models might be worth it.