PC World - USA (2020-09)

40 PCWorld SEPTEMBER 2020

REVIEWS HP ENV Y X360 13

well they manage heat. The less heat from the

CPU or GPU (or ambient temperature), the

higher and longer they can boost clock speeds

and finish a task quickly. To simulate a heavier

load, we run the free utility HandBrake to

encode a 30GB, 1080p file using the Android

Tablet preset. Shorter times are better.

While the performance preset hasn’t

yielded great dividends with other laptops

we’ve tested, when we tried it with the Envy

360 13 we saw a very decent 11-percent

decrease in how long it takes to convert the

file. We also see just how potent the cooler

running Ryzen 5 4500U is: The only laptops in

Dell XPS 15 7590Core i9-998xq0HK

Acer SwRyzen 7 4700Uift 3

HP Envy x360 13 Performance

Ryzen 5 4500U

Dell XPS 13 7390Core i7-10710U

HP Envy x360 13Ryzen 5 4500U

M14 DefaultSI Prestige

Core i7-10710U

MLaptop 3 15”icrosoft Surface

Ryzen 7 3580U

Dell XPS 13 9380Core 7-8565U

Dell XPS 13 9300 Default

Core i7-1065G7

Dell Inspiron 15 7000

Core i7-8665U

Acer SwCore i5-8250Uift 3

HP Spectre x360 13 2019

Core i7-8565U

HP Spectre x360 13 5t h Gen

Core i7-8565U

HandBrake 0.99 Encode

Seconds

SHORTER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

1, 595

2,635

2,542

3,280

1,876

3,192

2,542

3,469

3,654

3,654

3,927

4,302

4,399

Dell XPS 15 7590Core i9-998xq0HK

Dell XPS 13 7390Core i7-10710U

Dell Inspiron 15 7000

Core i7-8665U

Dell XPS 13 9300 Default

Core i7-1065G7

HP Spectre x360 13 5t h Gen

Core i7-8565U

Acer SwRyzen 7 4700Uift 3

Dell XPS 13 9380Core 7-8565U

HP Envy x360 13 Performance

Ryzen 5 4500U

HP Envy x360 13Ryzen 5 4500U

M14 DefaultSI Prestige

Core i7-10710U

HP Spectre x360 13 2019

Core i7-8565U

MLaptop 3 15”icrosoft Surface

Ryzen 7 3580U

Acer SwCore i5-8250Uift 3

Cinebench R15.038

Single-core performance

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

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