Clearly, the G3 has no problem handling modern games in spite of its somewhat
low synthetic benchmark scores.
Not exact matches
On Geekbench 3, a
synthetic benchmark that measures overall performance, the Surface 3 scored a solid 3,351, which is well above the tablet category average (2,404) but
lower than the Intel Core M 5Y10 - powered T300 Chi (4,319), the A8X - powered iPad Air 2 (4,547) and the Core i5 - 4300U - powered Surface Pro 3 (5,665).
How the Meltdown and Spectre chip flaws will impact cloud computing (TechRepublic) Mitigations for two critical architectural flaws in CPUs can cause performance degradation, but real - world impact is
lower than
synthetic benchmarks.
Geekbench is also a relatively limited
synthetic benchmark, and doesn't tell you the flip side of the coin that while performance may be similar, you are getting it at a
lower price point in a more energy efficient package that puts out less heat.