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MagyarEarly signs of Microsoft Surface Pro and Surface Laptop refreshes surface with Intel Core Ultra 5 processors
Earlier today, we reported on some of Microsoft's possible hardware releases for 2024, including the long-awaited Surface Pro 10. For now, the likes of The Verge and Windows Central disagree about when business and consumer devices will launch. Regardless, both expect the former to start shipping at least two months before the latter.
Now, Roland Quandt has discovered Geekbench listings that appear to relate to at least two forthcoming Surface products. As the screenshots below show, there are dozens of entries for OEMHT and OEMML, which feature Core Ultra 5 135U and Core Ultra 5 135H processors, respectively. Both Meteor Lake parts, latter should prove significantly more powerful than the former thanks to a higher TDP, twice the GPU cores and two additional hyper-threaded CPU cores.
One would expect Geekbench to reflect the theoretical performance advantage for the Core Ultra 5 135H. However, early benchmark results are all over the place and show no discernable advantage for the Core Ultra 5 135H over the Core Ultra 5 135U. With that being said, we would recommend taking early benchmark results like these as indications of how a retail device may perform.
As always, Geekbench does not reveal the intended release names of OEMHT or OEMML. Nonetheless, a Surface Pro 9 5G firmware update that Microsoft published earlier this year suggested that OEMHT would be a new Surface Pro device, with 'OEMML' serving as the codename for an unreleased Surface Laptop. Currently, Microsoft is expected to deliver new consumer Surface Laptop and Surface Pro machines with Snapdragon X Elite processors. Thus, it would seem that OEMHT and OEMML relate to their 'for business' counterparts, release details of which we have covered separately.
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