PCWorld – August 2019

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light gaming. The Creative workloads are
typically the most processor-intensive,
leaning harder on GPU-intensive tasks like
gaming, as well as photo and video editing.
For a business notebook, the Latitude 7400’s

performance delivered stellar performance

right out of the gate.

PCMark 10 reworks all three benchmarks for

the modern era. Again, typical office tasks like

video calls play a role, but heavy-duty image

manipulation using the

GIMP image-editing

tool as well as more

subtle metrics like app

startup times and

GPU-stressing physics

tests also appear.

PCMark 10 recently

debuted, so our archive

of benchmarks isn’t as

comprehensive as it is

for PCMark 8. In this

modern benchmark

the Latitude 7400 still

does well.

We also stress the

laptop processor in

two ways: via

Cinebench, a Maxon-

developed benchmark

“sprint” that asks every

CPU core and thread

to render a scene as

quickly as possible,

and HandBrake, an

open-source tool used

to convert a

Hollywood movie into

a format that can be

Dell’s Latitude 7400 doesn’t disappoint in the updated PCMark 10
benchmark, though it still lags behind some of its competition.

HP Spectre x360 15(late 2018) (Core i7-8550U)

Huaw(Core i7-8565U)ei Matebook 13

Dell Latitude 7400 2-in-1(Core i7-8565U)

Sam(Core i7-8565U)sung Notebook 9 Pro

Dell New XPS 13 9370

(Core i5-9370)

PCMark 10

(Native resolution)

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

4,691

3,413

4,082

4,299

3,882

Dell’s Latitude 7400 performed very well in our Handbrake video-
conversion test.

Dell New(Core i5-9370) XPS 13 9370

Huawei Matebook 13

(Core i7-8565U)

Dell Latitude 7400 2-in-1

(Core i7-8565U)

HP Spectre x360 13 (2019)

(Core i7-8565U)

HP Spectre x360 13T(Core i7-85500)

Sam(Core i7-8565U)sung Notebook 9 Pro

HandBrake 0.99.0 Encoding (H.246)

(Seconds)

SHORTER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

3,444

4,373

4,907

3,677

3,507

4,264