 This guys is the Surface Studio and we're going to see how well it games. So let's jump in. All right guys, thank you very much Thunder E here and we have the Surface Studio in-house. We've had it for a bit of time and you know this video is going to be all about gaming. Now before we start, I want to give a big shout out to our sponsor Ivacy VPN. Definitely check them out. We'll give you more details later. What is the Surface Studio all about? Now this I think is the replacement to the Surface Book, which was a tune one. It was a tablet and a keyboard separately or at least a laptop, but this takes things to a very different level. Now on one hand you can put it into a laptop mode and it's a laptop. It feels like a solid laptop. You know you've got a nice keyboard, great trackpad by the way, or you could put it into what I like to call cinematic gaming mode, which is basically 10th mode, but allows you to just enjoy the real estate, look at content in game, or you could tilt it back down and drop it into tablet mode and use the pen or just view content, whatever you want to do, start writing, you name it. That's cool. That's what Microsoft likes to do with surfaces, but I wanted to see how well the Surface games and how well the Surface is for consumer content. Now I've used it for about a week roughly, and I have to say though, it is quite versatile. Taking it from place to place, whether I'm outside watching content or I'm inside gaming, I've found it to be quite versatile. Now this packs in a lot of performance for what you'd expect. An Intel 11-gen processor. You've also got 32 gigs of RAM. It's about a terabyte of storage in here. You can go up, I believe, to two terabytes, and you've got an RTX 3050 Ti. Now, just to bring the words of my buddy Danny Wingett, we had a discussion and we thought, the 3050 is not so much, right? But I might be wrong. I might be wrong with that assumption of what the 3050 can do, but before we even move forward, let's talk about this display and what we can do for entertainment. It's a 120 hertz display, which means your gaming is going to just look better. And also your viewing content will be great. Speaking of viewing content though, now, if you're thinking of watching shows like say What If or Squid Game, and maybe you're in a different region and you can't access those shows, this is where our sponsor here comes into play, which is Ivacy VPN. Their great service suite has a quick one click access, allowing you to get into the servers you need to. You've got to turn a service worldwide over 365,000 servers. And this allows you to access foreign content anywhere globally. 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So we started off with Shot of the Tomb Raider. Now this is a game that actually we use quite a bit to test and game on a couple of platforms. And on this, it ran pretty well. I mean, you can see it plays well. And the one thing I wanted to see is how gaming performance actually varied using the standard charger for Microsoft or third party charger. Now Microsoft has 120 watt charger, while the third party chargers I use were 100 watt PD chargers from either anchor or speed. Now running Shot of the Tomb Raider doing some benchmarks, I got 37 frames per second for both the standard charger and the third party chargers. When I ran the game at high and I ran the game at medium, I still got 51 for the standard and 51 for third party, which means you can use a third party charger even if you forget your Microsoft charger to game. And that's great. And it takes advantage of those two Thunderbolt ports. There are two downsides to it. One is that it's going to give you indication that you're going to be slow charging, which is fine. The other is that you won't take advantage of fast charging, which the standard charger does at 80% within an hour. So those are the two things you miss. But back to that full gaming experience, what I found just moving from game to game is that this system can actually play games well. So with this and Call of Duty Warzone, Warzone ran at between 49 to about 55 frames per second and it ran well. I mean, honestly, there were limited hiccups and it just was pretty smooth gaming performance overall. We've moved over to Doom Eternal. Doom Eternal was the same, ran Doom Eternal at medium and we got about 110 frames per second, which was great. And again, with that kind of fast space action, when you want that plus taking advantage of that 120 Hertz display really showcases how well it games. And I can't stress enough how much I like to game in the tent or I would say cinematic gaming mode where you're really just jumping into the display and gaming as much as you want to. Microsoft has also talked about Xbox Game Pass and how that's integral to gaming on PCs with Windows 11. So we went ahead, we downloaded Game Pass, installed, we made sure we also downloaded Gears 5. We could play that through the cloud, but wanted to see the performance of the game from Microsoft directly on there. And Gears ran really well. Benchmarks gave me about 62 frames per second on average, but my gaming experience I got up to about 90 frames per second, which was good. Now granted, this was more a limited, not some of the open world areas, but we got a solid gaming experience. So with that said though, it means that this can game pretty well. You know, it can do well with all the games we've downloaded and also can do well with the cloud games like Jedi Fallen Order, which we played off Game Pass cloud, as well as Injustice, which all ran well 1080p gaming. The only one game that didn't run well was Cyberpunk 2077. No one should be surprised about that run about between 21 to 27 frames per second. And it just wasn't that playable. So that's the only thing, but honestly, I don't think anyone would care about that. Temperatures, however, did go up to about 110 degrees. My range was between 108 and 110, which is acceptable, especially for a laptop like this. Sound here was impressive. Microsoft has done a really good job with building a sound system and sound echo chamber that is impressive from tweeters on the side to sorry, from subwoofers on the side to tweeters find through the keyboard, which you have to take a listen. Honestly, it's a great experience. And I think everyone who buys this or is going to use this should you literally put it into tent mode to just take a full advantage of the speaker system. I think overall, for me, this is a solid offering from Microsoft. And I think it's actually a better offering from the surface book line. So I'm glad they've done this. My few caveat here is that number one, Microsoft hasn't added more entries into the GPU. So there's only a 30 50 ti. There's no 30 60 70 or 30 80 variants for that. And pricing surface pricing is always kind of all over the place. So it's something that a lot of people might find, you know, just not appealing. But I like it. And I want to hear your thoughts. What do you guys think of the surface laptop studio? You think I'm wrong? If I am, or if I'm right, whatever you think, leave us thoughts down below. And also check out our sponsor for this video, Ivacy VPN, so you can get your own VPN today. And otherwise, guys, thank you and always enjoy your entertainment.