Tested: How fast is the Microsoft Surface Pro 7+ versus the Surface Pro 7?

Microsoft’s Surface Pro 7+ (or Surface Pro 7 Plus) launched unexpectedly, stepping up from the Surface Pro 7’s 10th-gen Intel Ice Lake chips to 11th-gen Tiger Lake Core chips. The question we immediately had was: is the Surface Pro 7+ worth the upgrade?

We’ve been somewhat shocked by the performance we’ve seen from the new model. In this story, we begin to answer two related questions: how much faster is the Surface Pro 7+ compared to the Surface Pro 7, and how much faster is the tablet version of Intel’s 11th-gen Tiger Lake chip versus its predecessor,