Microsoft is working on Surface Laptop Studio 2, a convertible that will continue the Surface Laptop Studio legacy original and that it will retain both its design and possibilities of use. Everything seems to indicate that the most important changes that this team will bring will focus on the hardware and, according to a recent leak, the generational jump that it will mark in this regard.

The generation leap will be marked by two big keys, the processor and the graphics card. Surface Laptop Studio 2 will be configured with Intel Raptor Lake-H processorsand according to a recent leak, the most powerful configuration will top out at the Intel Core i7-13800H, a chip that has 6 high-performance cores with HyperThreading and 8 high-efficiency cores, for a total of 20 threads.

The jump over the Core Gen11 used by the first model is huge, and it can be seen in the first filtered performance test, which we can see in the attached graph. Surface Laptop Studio 2 doubles CPU-level performance when multithreading if we compare it to the Surface Laptop Studio, it far surpasses it in a single thread.

We also have to add that the Surface Laptop Studio 2 will use a GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile, a next-generation graphics solution based on the Ada Lovelace architecture that will have 3,072 shaders, 96 texturing units, 96 tensor cores, 32 raster units, 24 RT cores, a 128-bit bus, and 8 GB of 16 GHz GDDR6 memory. be compatible with all technologies introduced by Ada Lovelace, including DLSS 3 and frame generation.

The Surface Laptop Studio 2 will have the same display as the 14.4 inches which we saw in the original model and this one will have a Refresh rate 120 Hz (adaptive). We don’t have details on the screen resolution, but we assume it will 2400 x 1600 pixels. For the rest, this device will be configured with up to 64 GB of RAM and a PCIe Gen4 SSD with a capacity of up to 2 TB.

If all goes according to plan, the launch should happen between the second and third quarters of this year, although nothing is confirmed yet so the date may change. The retail price is unknown, but the cost of the base configuration is likely to remain more or less the same as we saw on the original Surface Laptop Studio.