66 PCWorld APRIL 2020REVIEWS MSI PRESTIGE 14
Balanced or High Performance is quite
good—most people probably couldn’t tell
the difference.
We didn’t include the performance of the
laptop set to its Super Battery mode, because
it’s off-the-charts underwhelming at a mere- Set to Super Battery, the laptop feels like
an Atom-based CPU—sluggish.
One limitation to using Cinebench 15 as a
gauge is its short run time. On modern laptop
CPUs it might finish in a minute or so, which
doesn’t properly test performance under a
longer load. For that, we use an older version
of the free HandBrake utility to convert aDell XPS 15 7590Core i9-9980HKDell XPS 13 7390Core i7-10710UDell Inspiron 15 7000
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Ryzen 7 3580UCinebench R15.038
Single-core performanceLONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE20018419017919718118917 7172170152Dell XPS 15 7590Core i9-9980HKMPerformSI Prestige 14 ance
Core i7-10710U
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Core i7-1065G7
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Ryzen 7 3580U
Dell XPS 13 9380Core i7-8565UDell Inspiron 15 7000
Core i7-8565U
HuawX Proei MateBook
Core i7-8550U
HP Spectre x360 13 2019
Core i7-8565U
HP Spectre x360 13 5th gen
Core i7-1065G7HandBrake 0.99 Encode
SecondsSHORTER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE1, 5953,2372,6353,4692,2403,2803,1923,6544,1754,3024,399Single-threaded performance of the Prestige
14’s Core i7 is fine even when set to its default
Balanced mode. Just don’t ask about Super
Battery mode.The Prestige 14 can be quite fast on CPU tasks
when set to its High Performance mode.