New Microsoft Surface Laptop specs leaked in benchmark test
Microsoft’s awesome Surface Laptop should have been refreshed, and we just received some pretty concrete evidence that a new model is coming soon.
An unreleased Surface Laptop 8th Edition with an Intel Panther Lake processor and a 13.8-inch display appeared in two Geekbench 6 listings earlier this week. The listings, which were viewed by Mashable and captured in screenshots by Notebookcheck, were removed Thursday morning.
A cached Google search result always shows one of the laptop’s Geekbench 6 listings.
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Geekbench 6 from Primate Labs is a popular benchmark for measuring device CPU performance. (We run it on every laptop we review.) 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 this before reviewing the device in question.
Microsoft has yet to confirm any new Surface PCs for 2026, although it did announce significant price increases for its current-generation devices earlier this month, citing “recent increases in memory and component costs.” When reached for comment on this week’s Geekbench 6 leak, a company representative said, “Microsoft has nothing more to share at this time.”
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What the leak tells us
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, according to Notebookcheck screenshots. It’s on par with other newer Windows laptops powered by the slightly inferior Core Ultra X7 358H chip, and with the MacBook Air M5 (in multi-core scenarios like video editing).
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The laptop’s full name is “Microsoft Corporation Surface Laptop for Business 13.8in 8th Ed Intel”, which indicates that Microsoft will continue to reserve Intel configurations for business customers. The company initially launched its current Surface Laptop 7 with Qualcomm Snapdragon X-series processors in May 2024; more expensive enterprise models with Intel Core Ultra Series 2 chips arrived in January 2025.
The Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 was available in two sizes and four colors: platinum, sapphire, dune and black.
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This timeline could be reversed for the next generation. Earlier this month, Windows Central reported that Microsoft plans to launch Intel-based Surface Laptops and Surface Pros this spring. Consumer variants of the Snapdragon X2 will likely follow later in the summer, likely due to a supply shortage of these chips.
The new Surface Laptop would feature a similar design, new colors, improved haptics and an optional OLED display, according to Windows Central.
UPDATED: April 30, 2026, 1:39 p.m. EDT This story has been updated with comment from a Microsoft representative.
