PC World - USA (2020-01)

88 PCWorld JANUARY 2020

REVIEWS LG GR AM^17

point, so we’d expect

it to lag behind

laptops with

10th-generation

CPUs, such as Dell’s

latest XPS 13 2-in-1.

Same goes

compared to

Microsoft’s spiffy new

AMD Ryzen-powered

Surface Laptop 3.

PCMark, which

simulates a gamut of

productivity tasks, was

actually the exception

to the rule here, as the

LG Gram 17 edged out

several other laptops

including that new XPS

13. However, all the
    laptops here scored
    well over 2,000, which
    is very good.
    The results in
    Cinebench, which
    tests performance
    under quick bursts of
    heavy demand, were
    less successful. The LG
    Gram fell behind other
    laptops—and the new
    XPS 13 especially—in
    multi-threaded
    performance, though

The likely secret to the LG Gram 17’s cool, quiet performance: Throttling under

heavy compute loads.

Dell XPS 13 7390 (Core i7-10710U)

M(Ryzen 7 3780 U SE)icrosoft Surface Laptop 3

Microsoft Surface Laptop 3

(Ryzen 5 3580U SE)

Dell Inspiron 15 7000 Black

Edition (7590) (Core i7-8565U

Lenovo Ideapad S340-151WL

(Core i5-8265U)

LG Gram(Core i7-8565U) 17

LG Gram(Core i7-8565U) 14T990

HandBrake Encode 0.99.0

(Android tablet, Seconds)

SHORTER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

2,635

3,878

3,498

4,157

3,280

4,049

3,654

Short bursts of multi-threaded performance are a weak point for the LG Gram

17, but single-thread results are more respectable.

197

Single threaded Multi threaded

Dell XPS 13 7390(Core i7-10710U) 1,106

Cinebench

(Single/multi threads)

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

Dell Inspiron 15 7000 Black^190

Edition (7590) (Core i7-8565U)^684

Lenovo Ideapad S340-151WL^163

(Core i5-8265U)^698

Microsoft Surface Laptop 3^152

(Ryzen 7 3780 U SE)^695

Microsoft Surface Laptop 3^144

(Ryzen 5 3580U SE)^662

LG Gram 17 173

(Core i7-8565U)^554

LG Gram 14T990^158

(Core i7-8565U)^533