2022 HP Victus 15 Intel vs. Dell Latitude 5531: Which is better?

HP has released the Victus 15 Intel, a 15.6-inch machine, in mid-2022. It is powered by up to 14-core Intel Core i7-12700H with a boost clock speed up to 4.70 GHz. The laptop has a dedicated GPU option up to Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050Ti with 4GB GDDR6 with Max-Q.

On the other hand, we have the 15.6-inch Latitude 5531 was introduced by Dell around the same year in early-2022. It comes with up to 14-core Intel Core i7-12800H with a boost clock speed up to 4.80 GHz. It has a dedicated GPU option up to Nvidia GeForce MX550 with 2GB GDDR6.

Both 2022 HP Victus 15 Intel and Dell Latitude 5531 have the same 15.6-inch display size. In addition, the 2022 HP Victus 15 Intel weighs 5.06 lbs. about 160% heavier than the 1.94 lbs. Dell Latitude 5531. Moreover, measured at 14.09” x 10.04” x 0.93”, the 2022 HP Victus 15 Intel is considerably bulkier than the Dell Latitude 5531 at 14.09” x 9.19” x 0.89”.

There are a toal number of 8 ports and slots available on 2022 HP Victus 15 Intel. That includes two USB-A ports, a headphone jack, a full-size SD card slot, a power port, a USB-C port, an HDMI port, and an RJ-45 port. With that said, it has three ports and slots fewer than the Dell Latitude 5531 that has two Thunderbolt 4 ports, a Smart Card Reader, two USB-A ports, an HDMI port, an RJ-45 port, a microSD card slot, a headphone jack, a lock slot, and a microSIM card slot.

Moving over to upgradability, HP claims that the 2022 HP Victus 15 Intel supports up to 16GB 3200 MHz DDR4 memory that you can upgrade with two memory module slots on the motherboard. It also comes with a single removable M.2 SSD slot that users can replace and upgrade in the future.

For Dell Latitude 5531, it supports up to 64GB 4800 MHz DDR5 memory that you can upgrade with two memory module slots on the motherboard. It also has two M.2 slots that users can easily swap or add an extra SSD to get extra space when needed.