PC World - USA 2020-07)

JULY 2020 PCWorld 43

WHICH XPS 13 WINS ON
PERFORMANCE
Before we get too far down the rabbit hole of
laptop performance, you need to ask yourself
what you’re doing. If you are mostly running
Microsoft Office, Google Chrome or Zoom,
the differences between the three laptops
here are mostly
meaningless. All three
exceed your needs, and
you can honestly skip the
rest of this section.
Note that this
argument applies mostly
to the top Core i7
versions, as lower-end
versions such as the Core
i7-10510U only have four
cores and the weaker
graphics. Intel’s Core
i5-1035G1 also has weaker

Dell’s XPS 13 2-in-1 (top) on top of a Dell XPS 13 7390 (bottom).

graphics than the Core

i7-1065G7 versions.

If, however, you

know you need more

single-core

performance, more

multi-core performance,

or better graphics for

gaming, keep reading.

CPU performance

breaks down into

multi-core performance

and single-core

performance. Photoshop is mostly single-core,

for instance, while video editing is mostly

multi-core. GPU performance drives graphics

in activities such as gaming, and GPU-

accelerated tasks such as converting your

video project.

Both the XPS 13 2-in-1 7390 and the XPS

The XPS 13 7390 can give you up to a 6-core Core i7-10710U CPU inside.