Snapdragon X Elite vs. Apple M3 Pro Battery Test!

Battery test between the Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 with the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite chip and the MacBook Pro with Apple's M3 Pro chip. Both devices specced at their $2000 variants.

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Snapdragon X Elite vs. Apple Silicon M3 Pro Battery Test!

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[gregoryaudet]

bro, test the new lenovo it has the same battery as the macbook

[raresborcea]

A few corrections:
- The Surface has a smaller screen: this is wrong. The two have very different screen ratios. The MacBook has a 16:10 ratio while the Surface has a 3:2 display, which, considering the diagonals, we end up with 568 cm2 total surface on the MacBook vs 567 cm2 on the Surface. Basically the same, probably 1-2 more cm2 for the Surface, considering the notch on the Mac.
- The MacBook having a lager battery <despite> the two sharing the same footprint: yet the MacBook is a bit over 200 grams/0.46 lbs heavier. The footprint is similar, the weight is different, thus the visibly larger battery.

Probably, a fairer comparison would be with the 13.6 inches MacBook Air M3, which this 13.8 inches Surface is actually competing with? With similar prices, similar battery sizes (52.6 vs 54 Wh) and a more similar speaker setup? Even though, in that case, the Mac's screen will be 31+ cm2 smaller, the rest of the specs and, especially, the prices align much better than in the current comparison.

[B.D.F.]

Sounds like capping the frame rate would have made things a little more fair. I wonder how a comparison to an M4 MacBook Pro would turn out.

[fredrickbambino]

The fact that it has a 30% smaller battery and was still able to keep up is mind boggling.

[rekcck]

where can we (asking for a friend) find those robot hands to scrub the hard to reach areas in the shower?

[DavidRamirez-vcdr]

The surface’s design team just decided to make a macbook. Same size trackpad and all

[LoverOfTech]

Huge respect for being able to pull this off 🙌🏿

[mikeylightzx]

Damn PhoneBuff is testing laptops now. Keep up the amazing work! 🎉

[nickeno]

Okay this is a bit unfair. You didn't cap the FPS in the game leading to the mac book doing a BUNCH of more work, even touching 100+ fps while the x elite had trouble staying at 30.

[ryanze]

this is the best test i've seen, not using benchmarking software to estimate battery longevity, but using robot hand and real world applications, really shows what it can be expected for us to do work in these laptops. kudos! subscribed!

[beamboy]

Why not the air.. isn’t the MacBook a different segment and much higher price ?

[YashK_]

Another thing to consider is that the surface pro has touchscreen while the mac doesn't so the surface's screen draws more power

[theboomingbomber]

If you do this again, I have a suggestion for the gaming section. Try to cap the framerate to something that both laptops can run so that both laptops are doing the same work.
Other than that, love the video and I find the results really interesting because I wasn't the X Elite to last nearly as long as it did.

[richi]

Wow surface pro 7 nailed it with 54Wh vs 70Wh 😅

[mohammeds]

The Surface kicked its ass, given the 30% difference in battery size.

[rubindublone]

That's insane! Same battery life with way less battery capacity, sure less power but still probably plenty for daily use

[Lacrua]

I’d imagine performance would’ve been better if the MacBook Pro was using Safari in the first test since it would be using its own software…

[robertsheltonjr]

Wow! This is the best "real world" test that I've seen! I am typing this from a (new) Surface Laptop 7. For my personal use case, the battery life is out of this world, in comparison to any Intel-based laptop I've ever owned. Since I am not likely to switch to MacOS, this is a major win for people like me!

[levimoura]

While the test does show that the Surface has a longer battery life, it's also quite unfair as the workloads were different in some aspects, especially in the gaming round. A framerate cap would've been a better choice for such test

[tejvarun_Otaku]

54Wh VS 70WH and still someone died 💀