On units with a 250-nit display, it might be 100%.In the first major refresh of its XPS 13 models since the release of Windows 8, Dell equips its ultra-lights with Intel's fourth-gen Haswell processors, 1,920-x-1,080 full HD displays, a bigger battery, Intel high-speed wireless and a 10-point multitouch option. For example, brightness on this unit was 40% because it's such a bright display. The settings I use vary depending on the device, because those settings are whatever gives me a comfortable experience. I use the product until the battery runs out, and then I run a battery report in Windows to check how long it took. When I had to boost the thermal settings, that became more like four to five hours. When the thermals were set to optimized, I was able to get just under eight hours of battery life out of it, which is really good. With the Core i7 model gen-over-gen, you'll probably just find a trivial bump in overall performance.īattery life was a mixed bag.
The other thing that changed with 12th-gen is better power management, with big performance cores (P-cores) and little efficiency cores (E-cores).Īs you can see, the Dell with a Core i5-1230U falls just short of the with a Core i7-1185G7 in the PCMark 10 test, and that's with the thermals set to best performance. There's always been a lower-power tier, which was pretty good with 11th-gen. Intel has brought about some changes with 12th-gen, adding the 28W tier. This has been the standard for ultrabooks and most convertibles for ages. Historically, the XPS 13 has come with a 15W processor. You also get a powerful 28W processor in the XPS 13 Plus however, with the regular XPS 13, you get a 9W processor that's boosted to 12W. The XPS 13 Plus has a lot of features that are more traditionally reserved for the regular XPS 13 (this is the first time there's been a Plus model), but at the same time, it has a lot of experimental features, like a borderless touchpad. One of the things I've pointed out throughout this review is the disparity between the Dell XPS 13 and the XPS 13 Plus.
The Dell XPS 13 (2022) comes with Intel's 12th-gen 9W U-series processors, which are cranked up to 12W.Performance: Intel's 12th-gen U9 processors feel like they're lacking
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