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Dell XPS 6-CORE 13'

This is my review of the 2019 XPS 13' running the i7-10170U. This new 6 core CPU has a very strong performance in bursts. The previous generations of this device are very well-reviewed, liked by many people including me, they are not cheap but they're good. Now, everything carries over to this new model; the screen, the keyboard, the chassis... Everything remains the same except; they now have the option for this crazy 6-core, 10th GEN Intel CPUs. These are extremely powerful!








They boost up to 4.7GHz. It's the most powerful CPU that Intel has made for a 15-watt TDP and the fact that Dell fit that CPU into this thin and light 13' device is pretty crazy. It is literally the only13' laptop with a 6-core CPU in the market right now. I saw some benchmarks. The scores are really good. They are not only better than the previous XPS 13' but they are pushing numbers which are very similar to 15' gaming laptops. This thing is really good for burst multi-core performances. Now with these CPUs, the more cores you have, the more power you have and the more power you have, the more heat you get! That's where this device starts to have problems. If you run the benchmarks for running heavy performance of CPUs, after 50-60 seconds the performance starts to drop. Things get hot, clock speed drops and the whole idea of a 6-core CPU in such a small device starts to become less appealing.  It just cannot maintain a high boost clock for a long period of time. Some of that is because of thermal constraints(as it is such a small device) but it is also because it is getting only 15-watts. There are many limitations that Dell has placed to fit this CPU into this chassis.






There are 2 ways to look at this 6-core device. If you compare it to the previous model of the XPS 13: It is better! Even if you take into account all the thermal limitations. But, if you imagine what this device could have been. If they pumped more wattage into it or if they would have reinvented. the thermal system to take advantage of this CPU. It could have been a lot better. Morely because there are other companies that are making 14 or 15' devices that can cool this chip quite well. But, as it stands that if you want a 6-core CPU in a 13', the Dell XPS is the only option. I will say that if you are a developer and your compile-time isn't super-long, I think this is a pretty decent fit if you can afford it. I just don't know if the 6-core CPU is a particularly good fit for this chassis. If you liked my blog tell me in the 

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