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Surface NPU & AI Performance (TOPS) Ranking

Microsoft's Copilot+ PC standard requires an NPU of 40 TOPS or more. This page ranks all 17 NPU-equipped Surface models by AI performance (TOPS) and examines how they measure against that bar.

Highest TOPS
120TOPS
Lowest TOPS
11TOPS
Copilot+ PC Baseline
40+ TOPS
NPU Models
17 Models
Table of Contents(4 items)

Key Highlights Summary

All 17 NPU Models TOPS Ranking

NPU name, TOPS and release year, ordered by performance.

17 models
RankModelNPUAI (TOPS) ▼Year
1Surface Laptop UltraNVIDIA® Tensor Cores & AI Superchip (120 TOPS)120TOPS2026
2Surface Laptop 13-inch (2nd Gen)Qualcomm® Hexagon™ (80 TOPS)80TOPS2026
3Surface Laptop 8 (13.8-inch)Qualcomm® Hexagon™ (80 TOPS)80TOPS2026
4Surface Laptop 8 (15-inch)Qualcomm® Hexagon™ (80 TOPS)80TOPS2026
5Surface Pro 12-inch (2nd Gen)Qualcomm® Hexagon™ (80 TOPS)80TOPS2026
6Surface Pro 12 (13-inch)Qualcomm® Hexagon™ (80 TOPS)80TOPS2026
7Surface Laptop for Business 13.8-inch (Intel)Intel® AI Boost NPU (40+ TOPS)48TOPS2026
8Surface Laptop for Business 15-inch (Intel)Intel® AI Boost NPU (40+ TOPS)48TOPS2026
9Surface Pro 11 for Business (Intel)Intel® AI Boost NPU (40+ TOPS)48TOPS2025
10Surface Pro (12-inch)Qualcomm® Hexagon™ (45 TOPS)45TOPS2025
11Surface Laptop, 13-inch (1st Edition)Qualcomm® Hexagon™ (45 TOPS)45TOPS2025
12Surface Laptop 7 (13.8-inch)Qualcomm® Hexagon™ (45 TOPS)45TOPS2024
13Surface Laptop 7 (15-inch)Qualcomm® Hexagon™ (45 TOPS)45TOPS2024
14Surface Pro 11 (Snapdragon X Elite)Qualcomm® Hexagon™ (45 TOPS)45TOPS2024
15Surface Laptop 6 for BusinessIntel® AI Boost NPU11TOPS2024
16Surface Laptop 6 for Business (15-inch)Intel® AI Boost NPU11TOPS2024
17Surface Pro 10 for BusinessIntel® AI Boost NPU (11 TOPS)11TOPS2024

Condition-Specific Rankings

[1]Source: Geekbench 6 (Processor / OpenCL)

* Where Geekbench has no measured result, scores are estimated from spec change ratios wherever possible. 32-bit models have no data.