The Dell Latitude 13 7390 2-in-1 Review
by Brett Howse on April 12, 2018 8:00 AM ESTGPU Performance
As a business laptop, gaming performance isn’t going to be a priority, and with the Intel UHD Graphics 620, that’s a good thing. The GPU does what it needs to for office scenarios though, with great media playback capabilities, low power usage, and support for three monitors.
Since this laptop isn’t aimed at gaming at all, we’ll just look at a couple of synthetic tests.
3DMark
GFXBench
There’s not much to say about the integrated GPU that’s not already been said. Intel’s integrated GPU is fine for desktop tasks, great for media playback, and improving year-over-year, but only able to be leveraged in 3D situations in the least stressful situations.
Storage Performance
The one area where the Spectre and Meltdown patches have really impacted performance is in I/O, so storage performance is impacted heavily, especially high numbers of reads and writes. As of this writing, the Dell unit is patched for Meltdown, but not Spectre v2, but as we saw in our performance testing of the patches, the Meltdown fix has the biggest impact for I/O.
Dell also offers several choices for the SSD, with a 128 and 256 GB SATA option, or 256 / 512 / 1024 GB NVMe. This model has the 512 GB NVMe, which is the PC401 SK Hynix in this particular unit.
Performance is still quite strong, with read speeds that can reach up to over 2600 MB/s, but write speeds are well behind the fastest NVMe drives on the market.
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abei.villafane - Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - link
3.1 pounds Thats about normal. But gets tiring if you're trying to hold it in 1 hand and using it midair with the other for more than like 10-15 minutes.skavi - Thursday, April 12, 2018 - link
Are we getting an XPS 15 2in1 review as well?HStewart - Thursday, April 12, 2018 - link
I think they included in part of larger dell announcement - not sure if they have a review on it alone plan.I just receive mind yesterday about 24 hours ago and at first it seem to be noisy, but last night I realize it is not much different than my Y50 coming to noise - but screen is awesome with 4K version and using it sitting on my bed.
2in1 in higher end notebook designed to include gaming is awesome for me. It just seems more portable and easier to used than my Lenovo Y50.
I know some people will not like having the driver for Vega be from Intel - but it makes since on how they have the chipset - it so frustrating to have two drives on the Y50. I understand why they did it and believe they are preparing for Artic Sound changes coming next year or 2020.
piroroadkill - Thursday, April 12, 2018 - link
Where's the AMD version? That's the interesting one...HStewart - Thursday, April 12, 2018 - link
Do you mean XPS 15 2in1 with Vega GPU. Typically AMD CPU at Dell have no real market value - just people want them but never really purchase them.piroroadkill - Friday, April 13, 2018 - link
Nah, I meant this one: http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/2-in-1-laptops/new-...The Inspiron 13 7000 with Raven Ridge... but of course the Latitude is in a different build quality class than an Inspiron (although back in the old days, they were basically the same!)
neo_1221 - Thursday, April 12, 2018 - link
There's a typo in your table on the first page - it says "Core i3-8250U or 8350U" when it should be i5. The High/Model Tested column also lists a 128GB SATA SSD despite you getting the 512GB NVMe model...tipoo - Thursday, April 12, 2018 - link
I'm all for these reviews of more mid range systems, kudos.PeachNCream - Thursday, April 12, 2018 - link
Yes, I'd like to echo tipoo's comment. Please keep it up! Reviews of business and consumer notebooks are a lot more useful to me than the latest gaming laptops.boeush - Thursday, April 12, 2018 - link
Yeah, about the lack of a nub pointer - Brett, you must be like the last surviving dinosaur on Earth who hadn't yet managed to evolve toward touchpad use. I haven't seen anyone using the nub (when available) in a very long time; the touchpads these days are by far superior in convenience and precision. But, the nub keeps getting included in business/workstation-class machines (with us all having no choice but to pay for it), and it's got to be all singularly your fault at this point... :P