Microsoft says new $2,599 laptop with Nvidia chip outperforms MacBooks
Microsoft priced its first Nvidia-powered Surface at $2,599.99 and claimed on stage that it doubles a MacBook Pro M5 on local AI prompts, without publishing how either figure was measured. The chip inside is built on Arm’s architecture, from the Cambridge company Nvidia failed to buy in 2022.
Microsoft has priced its first Nvidia-powered laptop at $2,599.99 and opened pre-orders. It says the Surface Laptop Ultra returns prompts from locally run AI models twice as fast as Apple’s MacBook Pro M5, and generates video six times quicker. It has published no test methodology for either claim.
Executives made the comparison on stage in San Francisco on Wednesday, Bloomberg reported. Microsoft’s own product page carries the price, a processor of up to 20 Nvidia Grace cores, up to 128GB of unified memory and up to 2TB of storage.
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