The Dell XPS 16 takes the place of two important laptops, the XPS 15 and 17, and it does well enough. But, it's too expensive and seriously needs a discount.
Dell XPS 16 MSRP $3,399.00 Score Details DT Recommended Product “The Dell XPS 16 is one of the most beautiful and powerful laptops you can buy.” Pros Cons Few laptops have what it truly takes to take on the MacBook Pro. The Dell XPS 16 claims to be one of them, however, and seems to have the credentials to back it up.
Various upgrades are also quite costly, like the $1,100 RTX 4070 and $950 Core Ultra 9 185H options. An XPS 16 outfitted with the highest-end components costs $4,549 for a Core Ultra 9 185H, 64GB of RAM, a 4TB SSD, an RTX 4070, and a 16.3-inch 4K+ OLED panel . Design My first reaction to the XPS 16 when I pulled it out of the box was that it’s a very large laptop. But that’s not entirely fair. It has a fractionally larger display than the MacBook Pro 16 but is slightly smaller and roughly the same weight. Importantly, it’s significantly smaller than the XPS 17 it replaces.
Open the lid, though, and the XPS 16 is a completely different thing. The dominant color is carried forward and highlighted, with an all-glass palm rest that’s unbroken by touchpad lines and flows into the speaker grills that flank a zero-lattice keyboard. The illusion of an unbroken expanse is maintained — until that is, your eyes are drawn to the row of LED touch function keys.
If the keyboard was a neutral experience, the LED touch function keys were a detriment. Maybe I could account for them with the smallest family member, the XPS 13 Plus , because Dell could argue they fit better or leave more room inside. Or something. Again, many of this laptop’s rivals win here. Even worse, maybe, is that the XPS 16 is powered via USB-C, unlike the MacBook with its MagSafe 3 connector. That means one Thunderbolt 4 port is taken to plug in. If it were my main machine, I’d connect the XPS 16 to a Thunderbolt 4 dock, but that’s not an option when taking it on the road.
Thermals and power The XPS 16 can be configured with up to a 45-watt Core Ultra 9 185H, a 14-core , 22-thread CPU running at up to 5.1GHz. I reviewed it with the 28-watt Core Ultra 7 155H, which has the same core count but runs at up to 4.8GHz. I also reviewed the highest-end GPU option, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070. The XPS 16 can also be configured with integrated Intel Arc graphics only, the RTX 4050, and the RTX 4060. That’s a step back from the XPS 17’s optional RTX 4080 .
Performance So, how well did it do? It all depends on how you want to use it. And before we dig into that data, I’ll anticipate some likely questions: The XPS 16 never got more than warm on the chassis bottom and remained cool on the keyboard deck where my hands rested. The CPU did get a little toasty and throttled more than I’d like. But overall, the heat was well-controlled.
The XPS 16 performed well in the Pugetbench benchmark, rivaling the Alienware. It’s a strong result that promises good performance for creators. It’s also well behind the MacBook Pro 16, which has a ton of GPU cores to throw at things and several CPU optimizations that make short work of various encoding and decoding tasks.
I ran a couple of gaming benchmarks, and the XPS 16 was a decent performer. It hit 50 frames per second in Cyberpunk 2077 at 1440p and Ultra quality and with FSR 2.1 set at Quality. The Alienware m16 R2 hit 55 fps. At 1080p and ultra graphics with ray tracing and DLSS turned on, the XPS 16 hit 81 fps compared to the Alienware’s 61 fps, a surprising win for the Dell. In Red Dead Redemption, the XPS 16 managed 66 fps at 1440p and ultra graphics compared to the Alienware’s 69 fps.
The XPS 16 is … well … less impressive. It has a large 99.5-watt-hour battery but, on my review unit, a very power-hungry high-res OLED display. It managed 5.5 hours in our web browsing test and 5.5 hours in our video looping test.
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