PC World - USA (2020-03)

MARCH 2020 PCWorld 63

for, say, more

battery capacity.

The truth is,

none of this matters

in a corporate

environment. The

next test is PCMark

8 using various

simulated Corporate

Drone tasks of word

processing,

browsing, video

conferencing, and

spreadsheeting.

As you can see,

that back-of-the-pack

performance of the

Elite Dragonfly

suddenly looks pretty

good. The truth is the

Elite Dragonfly is just

fine for what 95

PC Mark 8 tells us

it’s all good for the

majority of work

you’d do on a thin-

and-light laptop.

The Dragonfly also

comes in well behind

other technically

slower CPUs in our

Handbrake stress test

too.

Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 7390(Core i7-1065G7)

HP Spectre x360 13 5th Gen(Core i7-1065G7)

HP Spectre x360 13 2019
(Core i7-8565U)
HP Elite Dragonfly
(Core i7-8565U)
HP Spectre x360 13 2017
(Core 7-8550U)
Lenovo IdeaPad 730S(Core i5-8265U)

Dell XPS 13 7390(Core i7-10710)

Dell XPS 13 9380 (Core i7-8565U)

Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 15”
(Ryzen 7 3580U)

PCMark 8 Work 2.0 Conventional
(Native resolution)

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

3,893

3,510

3,632

3,338

3,807

3,431

3,577

3,205

3,017

Dell XPS 13 7390
(Core i7-10710)
Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 15”
(Ryzen 7 3580U)
Dell XPS 13 9380
(Core i7-8565U)
Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 7390(Core i7-1065G7)

HP Spectre x360 13 2019(Core i7-8565U)

HP Elite Dragonfly(Core i7-8565U)

HP Spectre x360 13 2017(Core 7-8550U)

HP Spectre x360 13 5th Gen
(Core i7-1065G7)
Lenovo IdeaPad 730S
(Core i5-8265U)

HandBrake 0.99 Encode
(Seconds)

SHORTER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

2,635

4,302

3,469

4,373

3,280

4,355

3,549

4,399

4,611