Dell XPS 15 9510 vs. Surface Pro 8

Dell has released the XPS 15 9510, a 15.6-inch machine, in mid-2021. It is powered by up to an octa-core Intel Core i9-11900H with a boost clock speed up to 4.90 GHz. The laptop has a dedicated GPU option up to Nvidia Quadro RTX 3050Ti with 4GB GDDR6 45W TGP.

On the other hand, we have the 13-inch Surface Pro 8 was introduced by Microsoft around the same year in late-2021. It comes with up to a quad-core Intel Core i7-1185G7 with a boost clock speed up to 4.80 GHz. It has an integrated graphics option up to Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics (96 Execution Units, 400 → 1350 MHz).

The Dell XPS 15 9510 has a 15.6-inch display which is considerably larger than the 13-inch Surface Pro 8. In addition, the Dell XPS 15 9510 weighs 4.22 lbs. about 115% heavier than the 1.96 lbs. Surface Pro 8. Moreover, measured at 13.57” x 9.06” x 0.71”, the Dell XPS 15 9510 is much bulkier than the Surface Pro 8 at 11.3” x 8.2” x 0.37”.

There are a toal number of 6 ports and slots available on Dell XPS 15 9510. That includes two Thunderbolt 4 ports, a lock slot, a USB-C port, a full-size SD card slot, and a headphone jack. With that said, it has a port or slot more than the Surface Pro 8 that has two Thunderbolt 4 ports, a Surface Connect, a headphone jack, and a Surface Type Cover.

Moving over to upgradability, Dell claims that the Dell XPS 15 9510 supports up to 64GB 3200 MHz DDR4 memory that you can upgrade with two memory module slots on the motherboard. It also comes with two M.2 slots that users can easily upgrade and install an additional SSD to expand the storage on the device.

For Surface Pro 8, it supports up to 32GB 4267 MHz LPDDR4X memory. Unlike Dell XPS 15 9510, it has an onboard memory module that is not upgradable by the users. Luckily, it has a single removable M.2 SSD slot that users can replace or upgrade when needed.

Here are some notable new features we found on the Dell XPS 15 9510.

• New 16:10 OLED 3.5K Touch Display - On top of FHD+ and 4K UHD+, the new Dell XPS 15 comes with a new OLED display with a 16:10 aspect ratio, touch, Dolby Vision, HDR 500TB, 100000:1 contrast ratio, 400-nit brightness, Eyesafe, Corning® Gorilla® Glass 6, and 100% DCI-P3 color gamut.
• 11th Gen Intel H-Series - The laptop is now powered by the latest 8-core 16-thread 11th Generation Intel ® Core™ processors with a Turbo Boost speed of up to 4.90GHz.
• Next-Generation Ray-Tracing Graphics - Featuring the new NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™️ 3050 and 3050 Ti with 4GB GDDR6 video memory to accelerates your favorite creative apps for greater performance and faster speed in video editing, graphic design, photography, and gaming.
• Faster DDR4 Memory - It now comes with the faster dual-channel 3200MHz DDR4 memory and can be configured up to 64GB.

For Surface Pro 8, there are also some outstanding new features that we want to point out as well including:

• New Pro Design It features the new bigger 13” edge-to-edge PixelSense Flow display.
• Better performance It’s now 2.1x times faster than Surface Pro 7 and 3.5x times faster than Surface Pro (5th Gen).
• Better specs 11th Gen Intel Tiger Lake processors, Intel Iris Xe G7 graphics, up to 32GB of 4267 MHz LPDDR4x memory, WiFi-6, and Bluetooth 5.1.
• Longer Battery Life It now offers a better battery life with up to 16-hours of typical device usages.
• 2 x Thunderbolt™ 4 Supports USB 4.0, 40Gbps transfer speed, DisplayPort, Power Delivery, Docking, and external GPU.
• Removable SSD For better data security and privacy, now the Surface Pro 8 feature a removable SSD.
• More
  10MP rear-facing camera 4K video recording 2W stereo speakers with Dolby Atmos

The Surface Pro 8 also has some downsides that you might want to know, including:

• No MicroSDXC card slot
• No Full-size USB-A port