7750 or 7760

Hi all,

I’m in need of a new workstation and was pricing up a 7760 with the following specs:

Processor: Intel Xeon Processor W-11955M (8 Core, 24MB Cache, 2.60GHz to 5.00GHz, 45W, vPro)
Display 17.3" IPS UHD, 3840x2160, 120Hz, Anti-Glare, Non-Touch, 100% Adobe,500 Nits, HDR400, IR Cam/Mic,WLAN
Memory 32 GB, 2 x 16 GB, DDR4, 3200MHz, ECC, SODIMM
Video Card NVIDIA RTX A5000 w/16 GB GDDR6
Hard Drive M.2 2280 512 GB, Gen 3 PCIe x4 NVMe, Solid State Drive
Additional Hard Drive (2nd HD) Additional M.2 2280 512 GB, Gen 3 PCIe x4 NVMe, Solid State Drive

The online price is just shy of AUD$14,000.

There is a 7750 on the outlet for AUD$5,000 with the following specs:

Intel Core 10th Generation i9-10885H Processor (8 Core, Up to 5.30GHz, 16MB Cache, 45W)
32GB (2x16GB) Up to 3200MHz DDR4 XMP Non-ECC
1TB PCIe M.2 NVMe Class 50 Solid State Drive
17.3 inch UHD (3840 x 2160) Wide View Angle Anti-Glare 60Hz 500-nits 100 Adobe HDR400 Non-Touch Display
NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 16GB GDDR6

Is the 7760 worth the price premium? That’s the online price before I try and haggle so let’s say they come down to 11k of thereabouts, is it double the workstation?

The benefit of the outlet unit is that I can get it delivered within a couple of weeks, rather than months for a 7760.

 

The RTX 5000 has about 72% of the performance of the A5000, from what I can tell. The W-11955M is a monster, with the i9-10885 lucky to get 65% of the performance of the W-11955M - the W-11955M has some very fast single-thread performance, even when you compare it to desktop CPUs. If you don't really need the 16GB of video ram on the GPU, you can definitely save a lot of money coming down to the A4000, which is still really fast and within 10% of performance of the A5000. In the U.S., I was able to get a much more "bare bones" 7760 laptop with a single 8 GB RAM and a single 256GB drive, and purchase the RAM separately at about a third of the price (it's actually a lot simpler to manually install the RAM than it used to be...), and of course buying an real NVME drive separately. My suggestion is to bypass the online store entirely and request a quote directly from a Dell representative with the best available prices.

 

Thanks, that’s really good info!

I do a lot of 3D cad style work and my current laptop with a 1050 Ti 4GB is maxing out, and other 9-13 GB is getting pulled from shared memory, so I figure the bigger video card the better.

Yes I also plan on putting in another 64 GB ram myself as the prices at Dell are ridiculous.

Will hit up a rep soon, see what price they come up with.....