The Dell XPS17 and Razer Blade17 are two of the best options in 17-inch laptops. The XPS 17, however, is the better mainstream option.
The 17-inch laptop is a special breed of machine. It offers the largest mainstream display you can buy without going the exotic route, and its large chassis tends to favor better performance thanks to improved thermal designs. Two of the best 17-inch machines are the Dell XPS 17 and the Razer Blade 17, both of which have been updated with Intel’s 12th-gen CPUs.
The Blade 17 is also an incredibly robust laptop, constructed of all aluminum and being just as rigid as the XPS 17. It also enjoys a streamlined design with an all-black chassis that looks like a darker version of a MacBook Pro. Besides the green Razer logo on the lid, the Blade 17 doesn’t look much like a gaming laptop and can be used in professional environments. It doesn’t enjoy the same small display bezels as the XPS 17, and so, in that respect, it isn’t quite as modern.
The XPS 17 has just four USB-C ports with Thunderbolt 4 support, a 3.5mm audio jack, and a full-size SD card reader. The Blade 17 includes two USB-A 3.2 Gen 2 ports to go with a USB 3.2 Gen 2 port and two USB-C ports with Thunderbolt 4 support. There’s also a 3.5mm audio jack and a full-size SD card reader. Both laptops have up-to-date wireless connectivity with Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2.
In the Pugetbench Premiere Pro benchmark that runs in a live version of Adobe Premiere Pro, the Blade 17 benefitted from its much faster Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti versus the XPS 17’s RTX 3060. Premiere Pro heavily uses the GPU for rendering and other tasks, and it’s no surprise that the Blade 17 was the leader here. I’ll note that the XPS 17’s score jumped to 853 in its performance mode, which is excellent, considering the disparity.
Display We tested the XPS 17’s UHD+ IPS display, one of the best IPS panels we’ve seen. It was incredibly bright at 543 nits, covered 100% of the AdobeRGB color gamut, and boasted a phenomenal accuracy of a DeltaE of 0.58 . It also achieved a contrast ratio of 1,870:1, one of the best scores we’ve seen on an IPS display. Our review Blade 17 equipped a QHD display running at a superfast 240Hz. That makes it great for gaming, but its general display metrics were well below the XPS 17’s.
Another XPS 17 advantage is in its battery life. It fell short of the average in our web browsing test that cycles through some popular and complex websites, but its 7.5 hours more than doubled the Blade 17’s performance on this test. In our video test that loops a local Full HD Avengers trailer, the XPS 17 was more than three times as efficient, lasting for a strong 13 hours.
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