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hey how's it going guys this is Dave 2d so if you've seen some of our recent videos the Dell XPS 13 is my top pick for like the best overall Ultrabook right now it's a fantastic device but if you're trying to do things like 4k video editing or playing some heavier 3d titles it's going to choke and you kind of expect it because it's an ultrabook but Dell recently put out some new configurations that have the iris 540 chip it's an upgraded graphics chip let's take a look so these come in an optional gold color it's a gold anodized ation on all the exterior metal so the top surface the bottom surface the serial number hatch even the screws are cold they didn't mess around doing this it uses a new i7 CPU the 6560 U and it has the iris 540 graphic strip it's still an integrated chip so the basic difference is that the iris chip has double the shader units and some extra video memory everything else is the same so the build quality the screens the ports the keyboard the trackpad that drives all of these are unchanged the overall Windows experience is also unchanged so boot times are about the same the system responsiveness is still about the same but the i5 skylake XPS 13 was already really fast when I was doing some video editing the i-5 in the i7 feel a little different I mean I use Adobe Premiere and the i7 is still a 2 core chip so it's not a big jump in performance so render times that have improved a bit maybe 7 to 10 percent but playback and editing on the timeline isn't that different between the two systems they're both very usable for 1080p footage but for 4k editing it still isn't smooth enough on the new i7 gaming is noticeably better with the new iris graphics chip so for lightweight games at 1080p you can now get over 60 frames per second on lowest graphics settings but the biggest jump in playability is for moderately demanding games so Rainbow six siege was kind of playable on the i-5 model at 35 to 40 frames per second but now it's closer to 50 frames per second with the iris graphics and it's just way more enjoyable to play the extremely demanding games run better but it's still not a good experience overall though it's a noticeable improvement over the HD 520 not quite as good as the Nvidia 940 m but it's close and it's great for an ultrabook under three pounds fan noise is basically the same so I kind of thought that with the higher performing CPU and GPU that the fans would run louder or more often but it really doesn't so in one sense it's a good thing because the XPS 13 has always been quiet and even with the faster configuration it stays quiet but by not having more aggressive cooling the i7 doesn't have that like thermal headroom to really flex and show off what it can do so here you can see that when they're both running heavy benchmarks the i7 model is running hotter than the i5 but take a look at this the i5 chip can turbo up to 2.8 gigahertz and after an hour of benchmarks things are pretty warm fans are going but it's still close to its max turbo speed of 2.8 the i7 here can actually turbo higher it can go up to 3.2 gigahertz but because of thermal throttling it doesn't now this is a benchmark that pushes a hundred percent CPU usage so it's not very realistic but I wanted to show that throttling is a little more aggressive on the i7 than it is on the i5 battery life also takes a hit with these faster components on the i-5 with a quad HD screen at 75 percent brightness I was getting around 8 hours of normal use on this new i7 it's like five and a half six hours so if you really need to have super long battery life I'd say skip the i7 or at least take a look at their battery pack accessory so this new i7 model only comes in a high-res display option and that starts at $1,600 so it's like a two hundred dollar price bump over the i-5 for the average person I don't think this upgrade is necessary for one you're losing battery life but more importantly the i5 model is such a great performer for the dollar you don't really need to bump up to the i7 unless you're chasing like the absolute best possible performance in an ultrabook especially for light gaming so if you're into that this is a really good option otherwise I'd skip it that's the end of this video hope you guys liked it thumbs we liked it subs if you loved it it's been nice