3 new Broadwell-U notebook reviews by Notebookcheck:
Dell Latitude 12 E7250 Ultrabook Review
Compared to Haswell-U Dell Latitude E7240 Touch (Intel Core i5 4300U):
Battery Runtime:
-Idle
Dell Latitude 12 E7250 (Core i5 5300U): 14 hours 05 minutes (+36%)
Dell Latitude E7240 Touch (Core i5 4300U): 10 hours 21 minutes
-WiFi
Dell Latitude 12 E7250 (Core i5 5300U): 7 hours 26 minutes (+ ~50%)
Dell Latitude E7240 Touch (Core i5 4300U): 5 hours
-Load
Dell Latitude 12 E7250 (Core i5 5300U): 1 hours 43 minutes (+24%)
Dell Latitude E7240 Touch (Core i5 4300U): 1 hours 23 minutes
E7250 does have a slightly bigger battery (52 Wh vs 45 Wh) but the improvements exceed the difference. It's also up to 19% faster than HD4400 with single-channel RAM.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-Latitude-12-E7250-Ultrabook-Review.135824.0.html
Acer Aspire V3-371 Notebook Review
The Cinebench R15 benchmark gives information about the computing performance of our comparison devices. Intel's Core i5-5200U surpasses the precursor by approximately 12% and even outperforms the performance of Intel's Core i5-4210U by 8%. The Broadwell CPU consistently clocked with the full Turbo rate of 2.7 GHz during the test. The new CPU is also impressive in battery mode since it accomplishes similar scores.
...Users who cannot use external power when on-the-go do not have to fear any losses. 3DMark 11 achieved an identical score of 1169 points in battery mode.
Using dual-channel RAM (H5500 vs HD4400):
-Bioshock Infinite - 1366x768 Medium Preset:
Acer Aspire V3-371-58DJ (Core i5 5200U): 24.2 FPS
Asus UX32LA-R3025H (Core i5 4200U): 17.9 FPS
- Tomb Raider - 1366x768 Normal Preset AA:FX AF:4x:
Acer Aspire V3-371-58DJ (Core i5 5200U): 30.4 FPS
Asus UX32LA-R3025H (Core i5 4200U): 23.3 FPS
HD5500 was 30-35% faster than HD4400.
www.notebookcheck.net/Acer-Aspire-V3-371-Notebook-Review.135831.0.html
Acer Aspire E5-571G Notebook Review Update
www.notebookcheck.net/Acer-Aspire-E5-571G-Notebook-Review-Update.136078.0.html