PC World - USA (2020-12)

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not sure whether the performance is the
result of the step down from the top Core
i7-1185G7, or if it’s just the thermal
limitations of the laptop. If we had to guess,
we’d say it’s the latter.
Where it gets interesting is in single-
core Cinebench performance, which
applies to the vast majority of applications
done on a thin-and-light laptop. Any laptop
scoring over 2,000 on this test is going to
do the job.
The Tiger Lake chip in the ZenBook Flip
13 doesn’t disappoint. Its single-threaded
performance is about 9 percent faster than

Cinebench R15.038

Single-core performance

Asus ZenBook Flip 13 UX371 Performance Core i7-1165G7

Asus ZenBook Flip 13 UX371 DefaultCore i7-1165G7

Dell XPS 13 7390Core i7-10710U

Dell Inspiron 15 7000Core i7-8565U

Dell XPS 13 9300 DefaultCore i7-1965G7

Lenovo Slim 7 Ryzen 7 4800 U

Acer Swift 3 Ryzen 7 4700U

Dell XPS 13 9380Core i7-8565U

HP Envy x360 13Ryzen 5 4500U

MSI Prestige 14 DefaultCore i7-10710U

Huawei Matebook X ProCore i7-8550U

Acer Swift 3Core i5-1035G1

Acer Spin 5Core i7-8550U

Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 15”Ryzen 7 3580U

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

216

184

197

183

210

183

190

181

17 7

169

17 7

165

170

152

HandBrake 0.99 Encode

Seconds

Lenovo Slim 7 Ryzen 7 4800 U

Acer Swift 3 Ryzen 7 4700U

HP Envy x360 13Ryzen 5 4500U

Dell XPS 13 7390Core i7-10710U

MSI Prestige 14 DefaultCore i7-10710U

Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 15”Ryzen 7 3580U

Dell XPS 13 9380Core i7-8565U

Dell XPS 13 9300 DefaultCore i7-1965G7

Dell Inspiron 15 7000Core i7-8565U

Asus ZenBook Flip 13 UX371 Performance Core i7-1165G7

Acer Spin 5Core i7-8550U

Huawei Matebook X ProCore i7-8550U

Acer Swift 3Core i5-1035G1

Asus ZenBook Flip 13 UX371 DefaultCore i7-1165G7

SHORTER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

1,737

3,192

2,855

3,469

1,876

3,280

2,973

3,654

3,654

4,175

4,10 0

4,183

4,151

4,489

that of the next laptop down from it. It’s

about 14 percent faster than most of the

fastest laptops in the list, which should lead

to slightly snappier performance.

As a CPU text, Cinebench is fairly

lightweight and takes two minutes or less to

run.It doesn’t tell you what would happen if

you ran the laptop on a heavy, long-running

task. As modern laptops all slow down as

heat builds up, we like to use the free

HandBrake utility to convert a 30GB file for

viewing on a tablet. It’s a very heavy load

and favors laptops with more cores, and

laptops that keep the CPU cooler.