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An individual Drow is probably a lot stronger, meaner and better adept at surviving and either fighting or spellcasting than your average individual surface Elf, for the reasons Luvian pointed out. However, the differences can never be so big that one Drow warrior can vanquish a group of five or six surfacers, like it happens in that battle sometimes. It's just a question of how the Drow and those surface Elves are implemented in the game. The Drow are quite strong because they have to provide a reasonable challenge for your party, which consists of very high-level characters. The surface Elves are probably implemented a bit more 'realisticly', meaning they're of lower level with less HPs, higher THAC0 and AC, etc.
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