Microsoft Surface Go also with Pentium Gold and met SSD | Rumor

Microsoft Surface Go 2 is in the works: we talked about it at the end of February with the release of the first specifications, while new rumors published on Twitter in recent days allow us to expand the picture a little. The benchmarks on 3DMark spoke of a processor Intel Core m3-8100Y, and are confirmed; apparently, however, there will also be aless powerful alternative, based on Pentium Gold 4425Y with a frequency of 1.7 GHz.

In both cases we speak of dual-core processors with 4 threads, and based on the 8th generation Amber Lake architecture launched in late 2018 / early 2019, and GPU Intel UHD Graphics 615; the most powerful chip will be associated exclusively with a 256 GB SSD, while the Pentium will have half of it, or 128 GB. It is therefore deduced that the latter configuration is designed to contain costs by sacrificing performance a bit. The variant with Core m3, which among other things here will be offered in its most powerful version (the base clock is 1.1 GHz, but can be increased up to 1.6) could also offer optional 4G LTE connectivity. So to schematize:

• Core m3-8100Y | 1.6 GHz (3.4 GHz boost) | 2 cores / 4 threads | Intel UHD 615 | 256 GB SSD | Also in LTE variant
• Pentium Gold 4425Y | 1.7 GHz (no boost) | 2 cores / 4 threads | Intel UHD 615 | 128 GB SSD