Dell Latitude 14 5431 review – the more power is worth it

Temperatures and comfort, Battery Life

Max CPU load

In this test we use 100% on the CPU cores, monitoring their frequencies and chip temperature. The first column shows a computer’s reaction to a short load (2-10 seconds), the second column simulates a serious task (between 15 and 30 seconds), and the third column is a good indicator of how good the laptop is for long loads such as video rendering.

Average P-core frequency; Average E-core frequency; CPU temp.; Package Power

As you can see, the Latitude 14 5431 is the best laptop we’ve tested with this CPU. Although the pool of tested devices is not large in this case, the lead of the Latitude is huge.

Comfort during full load

More importantly, the machine remains quiet even under the extreme workload. Temperature-wise, the keyboard stays pretty cool.

Battery

Now, we conduct the battery tests with the Windows Better performance setting turned on, screen brightness adjusted to 120 nits and all other programs turned off except for the one we are testing the notebook with. Here, the 64Wh battery pack lasts for 13 hours of 20 minutes of Web browsing, or 9 hours and 5 minutes of video playback.

Video playback

Brightness: 180 nits; Display Mode: SDR
Time to Full Discharge: Higher is Better

Dell Latitude 5431 64Wh, 4-cell

8h 37m

Dell Latitude 5430 58Wh, 4-cell

10h 23m+20.5%

Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 3 52.5Wh

$1069^.99

5h 52m-31.9%

Dynabook Tecra A40-J 53Wh, 4-cell

6h 39m-22.8%

HP EliteBook 640 G9 51.3Wh, 3-cell

9h 47m+13.5%

Acer Aspire Vero

10h 23m+20.5%

Web surfing

In order to simulate real-life conditions, we used our own script for automatic web browsing through over 70 websites.

Dell Latitude 5431 64Wh, 4-cell

13h 20m

Dell Latitude 5430 58Wh, 4-cell

13h 20m

Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 3 52.5Wh

$1069^.99

8h 37m-35.4%

Dynabook Tecra A40-J 53Wh, 4-cell

10h 10m-23.8%

HP EliteBook 640 G9 51.3Wh, 3-cell

13h 20m

Acer Aspire Vero

11h 11m-16.1%

Author: Alex Iliev

Author: eng. Kroum NikolovHead of Engineering at LaptopMedia.com, inventor and innovator with 40+ years of experience in electronics and high technology.

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