Arm-powered Surface Pro 10 with 10 core Snapdragon X Plus SoC leaks — will 16GB RAM be the new baseline?

What you need to know

• Leaked benchmarks have revealed a Snapdragon X Plus variant of the upcoming Surface Pro 10 for consumers.
• The Snapdragon X Plus features 10-cores, with 6 high-performance and 4 efficiency cores.
• The Surface Pro 10 with Arm is expected to be announced on May 20, and feature an OLED display option, 16GB RAM, and a powerful NPU.

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Microsoft is planning to unveil new Surface hardware in the form of an Arm-powered Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 at an event in Seattle on May 20, and now we have our first details about the upcoming Surface Pro that Microsoft’s is expected to unveil. Thanks to a new Geekbench listing, we know at least one upcoming Arm Surface Pro 10 SKU will feature the Snapdragon X Plus, paired with 16GB RAM.

The Snapdragon X Plus is an unannounced SoC from Qualcomm that’s expected so slot in under the Snapdragon X Elite as a “mid-tier” offering. It features a 10-core SoC, with 6 high-performance and 4 efficiency cores.

This Geekbench result is from a Geekbench ML test, which measures DirectML performance. It scored an impressive 2410 on a balanced power plan. The result also lists 16GB as the amount of RAM this configuration has. It’s notable as we’ve not yet seen a single Snapdragon X-based device benchmark with less than 16GB RAM, suggesting this may be the new baseline.

Earlier this year, a report claimed that AI PCs would ship with a baseline of 16GB RAM, but Intel Core Ultra PCs, which also fall under the AI PC umbrella, can be configured with 8GB RAM. Perhaps the original report meant Arm PCs, as so far it seems the base amount of RAM available on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X platform is 16GB. Additionally, the recommended specs for the upcoming Windows 11 AI Explorer lists 16GB RAM, too.