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At 1080p (1,920 x 1,080) resolution the XPS 13 Plus achieved an average of 22.9 fps in the Civ VI benchmark, though at its native 3.5K (3,456 x 2,160) resolution the XPS could only manage 14.6 fps. That's more frames per second than the Dell XPS 13 Plus could manage to crank out, but that's at least partially explained by the fact that the XPS 13 Plus was also running the game at a higher resolution. At that resolution, the Air M2 achieved an average of 40.3 frames per second (fps) in the graphical benchmark. For example, the highest resolution we could get it to run in on the M2 Air was 1,470 x 956, which is significantly lower than the Air's 2,560 x 1,664 native resolution.

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However, it can be tricky to get MacBooks to run Civ VI in a comparable resolution to most Windows laptops. To get a sense of how well they run games we ran both through the graphical benchmark in Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Gathering Storm, an oldie but a goodie that we use in testing because it runs on a wide variety of both MacBooks and Windows PCs. If you like to play games on your laptop, both the Dell XPS 13 Plus and MacBook Air M2 will afford you some good options. Sid Meier's Civ 6: Gathering Storm (in frames per second)

Apple's MacBook Air M2 took an average of 4:49 to complete the Photoshop test (running Photoshop 23.3.2 via Rosetta) and earned an average score of 821, while the XPS 13 Plus we're reviewing earned a lower score (670) and took longer (6:28) to do it.

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We also ran both laptops through PugetBench's Adobe Creative Cloud suite benchmark tests, using a script which automatically runs through tests for Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere Pro and Lightroom Classic. Dell XPS 13 Plus vs MacBook Air M2: Photoshop and Premiere Pro It's slightly hard to say because we witnessed some unusual results when running this test on the XPS 13 Plus that occasionally saw it completing the test in as little as 7 minutes 20 seconds, but that's so far below the average that we consider it something of a fluke. The Air M2 completed the task in an average of 7 minutes and 52 seconds, while the XPS 13 Plus took roughly 8 minutes and 31 seconds on average, though that dropped down to 6:49 in Ultra mode. That's roughly the same as the numbers the Air M2 put up, suggesting whatever difference active cooling makes isn't readily apparent in raw CPU tests. And since we put those fans to the test during testing for our Macbook Pro 13-inch (M2, 2022) review, I know that it earned a score of 8,911 in the Geekbench 5.4 multi-core CPU benchmark.

While both scores are quite good for these thin-and-light laptops, the fact that the XPS 13 Plus blew past the Air M2 in the multi-core CPU benchmark suggests that Intel's latest laptop chips can still muscle out Apple's M2 - even if there's active cooling to keep Apple's silicon cool under pressure.īecause while the new MacBook Air's M2 chip relies entirely on airflow and heat sinks to stay cool, the M2 chip in Apple's new 13-inch MacBook Pro has the added benefit of active cooling via fans. the XPS 13 Plus suggests Intel's chip is more efficient at tackling multi-threaded workloads - that is, apps which can take advantage of multi-core CPUs and issue complex instructions to multiple cores at once.

The score earned by the Dell XPS 13 Plus is high for an ultraportable, and it beats the MacBook Air M2's 8,965 score by a decent margin. The 13-inch MacBook Air M2 is a great laptop, with plenty of power for most tasks, but it looks like it can't speed past with the latest Windows ultraportables packing 12th Gen Intel CPUs.