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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