{"id":2509,"date":"2013-10-22T19:36:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T19:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/?p=2509"},"modified":"2013-10-22T19:36:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T19:36:24","slug":"futuremark-graphics-benchmark-surface-rt-vs-surface-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/2509-futuremark-graphics-benchmark-surface-rt-vs-surface-2.html","title":{"rendered":"FutureMark graphics benchmark: Surface RT vs Surface 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We know that the new Surface 2 (Nvidia Tegra 4) is faster than the old Surface RT (Tegra 3) but by how much?<\/p>\n<p>I came across the FutureMark 3D Benchmark for Windows RT in the Windows Store and tried it on both.<\/p>\n<p>I could see this was going to be a wipeout from the off. The first test saw a frame rate of 12.9 FPS on RT versus 59.9 on Surface 2. Surface RT first:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/image20.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/image_thumb20.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"321\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then Surface 2:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/image21.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/image_thumb21.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"347\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Surface 2 reported \u201cMaxed out\u201d on the scores. However, on the next test, Ice Storm Extreme, I got a result.<\/p>\n<p>Surface RT: 2065<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/image22.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/image_thumb22.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"302\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Surface 2: 8577<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/image23.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/image_thumb23.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"302\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3D Mark RT says my score is \u201clow for this device\u201d on Surface RT, but \u201ca great score for this device\u201d on Surface 2. Maybe the impact of Windows RT 8.1?<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line: on these tests Surface 2 is around 4 times faster. No wonder it feels snappier to use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know that the new Surface 2 (Nvidia Tegra 4) is faster than the old Surface RT (Tegra 3) but by how much? I came across the FutureMark 3D Benchmark for Windows RT in the Windows Store and tried it on both. I could see this was going to be a wipeout from the off. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/2509-futuremark-graphics-benchmark-surface-rt-vs-surface-2.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FutureMark graphics benchmark: Surface RT vs Surface 2<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154,97],"tags":[586,881],"class_list":["post-2509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tablets","category-windows","tag-microsoft","tag-surface"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}