While Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs aren't the first AI PCs we've seen, they are the first laptops that heavily rely on the power and performance of the much more powerful onboard NPU. So now we are faced with an interesting new challenge: How do we test AI PCs?
We'll naturally put them through a thorough review process using the laptops in our daily work and lives, but Laptop Mag also relies on consistently reproducible tests in our mission to find the best laptops and best AI PCs for you. And where that is concerned, the short answer is that, as of now, we only have three viable synthetic benchmark tests built to test NPU performance: Geekbench ML and UL's Procyon AI Image Generation and Procyon AI Computer Vision. Other available test workloads to test an AI PC are prohibitively difficult and time-consuming to set up and run as part of a typical review process.
