Dell Precision 5510 Mobile Workstation for Gaming?

I wan to use the Dell Precision 5510 Mobile Workstation for 3D programs, as well as for gaming. How good is it for playing steam games, and 3D simulation games?

Will they run well?

Is there a better laptop out there for gaming and 3D work?

Thanks !

 

Look up notebookcheck 950m. It'll perform about as well as that.

Benchmarks for games are at the bottom.

It's low mid tier performance.

 

ITs indeed the wrong subsection. It just is. and no it isnt great for gaming.

 

I have asked this question in the Alienware Sub~ as I thought PC gamers would be highly likely to respond to my question with a better response compared to Dell users. And with better knowledge of gaming laptops to help me. Clearly this is not the case. Thank you for your very much informative reply.

 

Not to be a negative nancy ofcourse. But the users here mostly did not use workstation laptops with Quadro GPU's.

But from my experience they really do not perform that well in gaming. The Multimedia version of this laptop, XPS15 is coming with a Geforce 960 and the upcoming version with a 1050. Both perform better for gaming but still not great. The only thing you need to figure out is if you really need Quadro based Nvidia GPU's for your requirements. I do some 3D render stuff but I use plain Geforce gaming hardware for it.

 

The Dell Precision 5510 comes with your choice of Intel HD 530 or Nvidia Quadro 1000M graphics. If you are a gamer, then XPS 15 is probably a better choice with Nvidia GTX 960M. Or wait a few weeks and get the new XPS 15 Kaby Lake with Nvidia GTX 1050. You can easily find online benchmarks for all these GPU's, if you want to compare specs.

 

Notebookcheck has a useful graphics benchmakr table. Here's a comparison between the 960M and the M1000M. The quadro has fewer shaders, is optimised for the business applications and also runs a bit slower (so overall better stability and reduced power consumption).

As noted above, an updated version of the 5510 is most likely in the pipeline as Dell has just announced the XPS15 9560. The most significant change is the Nvidia GPU. The Precision version may be a few months away as Dell will be trying to debug the hardware and software before it is released (the 5510 had more than its fair share of problems, many caused by Thunderbolt).

John

 

This.

You can use this current gen of Quadros for gaming but remember to set your expectations properly, especially with the coming new titles in the future which will be developed with the Pascal 10XX series in mind.

 

Nvidia Quadro "professional" graphics are a sham. They charge an arm and a leg for something you can do on any GTX card with similar cuda cores and shaders. For last generation, the top of the line Quadro Mobile will only be a little better at intense 3D modeling than the top of the line GTX. But they charge 4X as much because companies will pay.

In the Dell 5510 the Nvidia Quadro M1000M is less powerful than a GTX 960m (which will also run 3D productivity software better because its about 30% faster all around)

In the current generation of GTX 10xx cards, there really isn't any 3D software that needs more power than a 1060 unless you want to drive 4k resolution.

 

I currently use my 5510 for 3D work and some gaming, I currently play BF1 very comfortably at FHD on medium to high settings and it seems to cope fine. I never expected it to be running the very latest game but it seems it can. Its not going to give top range desktop bells and whistles but you are genuinely stunned when you look at how much graphics power can come from such a thin tiny machine.

Weigh up what your priority is, if it's 3D work with rendering and stability, go precision, plus the warranty is 3 years 'on site' standard which is a huge bonus over RTB for me personally. But if gaming is your main thing, the new kaby xps 15 would be the one with the best chance of handling games at a playable frame rate for a while yet