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anything listed here. The MSI GS65 Stealth has a
midrange price, but it’s still a powerful gaming laptop
that’s extra portable. On the ultraportable side is the
Dell XPS 13 2-in-1, included mostly because it shares a
CPU with our unit and gives us an idea of how the Iris
Plus integrated graphics perform. There’s also the
previous Blade Stealth, which shows us not only
whether the new CPU improves on the previous but also
how much better the GTX 1650 is than the MX150.
PRODUCTIVITY & STORAGE TESTS
PCMark 10 and 8 are holistic performance suites
developed by the PC benchmark specialists at UL
(formerly Futuremark). The PCMark 10 test we run
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processing, creating spreadsheets, web browsing, and
videoconferencing. The test generates a proprietary
numeric score; higher numbers are better. PCMark 8,
meanwhile, has a Storage subtest that we use to assess
the speed of the storage subsystem. This score is also
a proprietary numeric score; again, higher numbers
are better.
The integrated
graphics in Ice
Lake provide
better
performance
than you’ll find
in previous
Stealth
models.