

That’s power enough for most Windows applications, but you might be surprised to note that it’s effectively no better than the Surface Pro 2, which scored 0.61 with a 1.6GHz Core i5-4200U CPU at the helm. This capable trio helped the Surface Pro 3 along to a result of 0.62 in our benchmarks. We tested the £849 model, which features a 1.9GHz Intel Core i5-4300U, 4GB of DDR3 RAM and a 128GB Samsung PM851 mSATA SSD. Microsoft Surface Pro 3 review: Performance


Microsoft ships the Surface Pro 3 with Windows 8.1’s scaling settings at 150% by default you can drop this down to 100% if you want more room for your palettes and toolbars in applications such as Photoshop or Sony Vegas Pro, but be warned that this makes buttons and icons shrink to extremely fiddly proportions. That isn’t a problem, though: text is still razor-sharp, and photographs are packed with fine detail. When it comes to sharpness, the Surface Pro 3’s 216ppi pixel density isn’t perceptibly better than the 208ppi of the original Surface Pro and Surface Pro 2 – the higher resolution comes, after all, with a larger screen. Microsoft’s screen calibration is some way off with darker tones, however, with the deepest greyscales blending into black. The panel is also able to reproduce an exceptional range of colour: our X-Rite colorimeter measured it as covering 96.2% of the sRGB colour gamut.
