Dell Precision 7560 & Precision 7760 pre-release discussion

No. In the BIOS "Storage" section, my system shows three drive slots that can be enabled - all are labeled as "M.2 PCIe SSD".

 

Are you still going to test the Ballstix RAM?
Also, how long ago did you receive this email from Dell attached below?

 

Yes, already ordered the Ballistix RAM

Did you already decide for which RAM you will get?

The email you mentioned arrived on July 7, and then the second email with the shipping information on July 9, so you should get your next email soon as well

 

Regarding 3rd party products and warranty, I found this on the Dell website:



https://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/uscorp1/terms-conditions/art-limited-hardware-warranties#heading4

Sounds like commercial customers are more at risk than individuals.

 

I'm not decided yet. If the Ballistix RAM doesn't work, then I will get the normal Crucial 3200mhz RAM (CL22). I have 32gb of slow RAM from my XPS to use in the meantime.

 

Benchmarks are available for the 7560 on the 7x60 Owners Thread. Userbenchmark.com also has a few.

 

Is the 4k 120hz option in the Precision 7760 the same display as the Alienware X17 4k 120hz display option?

 

Do we know what manufacturer make the display's? Are they the same/different to the 7750?

 

Looking again towards next year's Precision 7X70 systems. (Of particular interest to me because I'm planning to get one to finally replace my home/personal M6700 system.)

I was previously speculating that these would have NVIDIA Ampere graphics, and likely we would see the exact same GPUs that are available in the Precision 7X60 systems. (Similarly to how Precision 7X40 and 7X50 have the same set of GPUs available.)

In the past day or so I've been reading about rumors of some NVIDIA Ampere refreshed laptop GPU chips, GA103S and GA107S. GA103S could be used in GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER & 3080 SUPER laptop GPUs. It would have 7,680 CUDA cores at the high end, a step up from the current 6,144 CUDA cores that we see in the GA104 (GeForce RTX 3080 mobile and RTX A5000).

...Wondering what the point would be to cranking up the CUDA count even further (without a process shrink), given the GPU thermal/power constraints at the high end of the laptop space already? Though supposedly these new chips are at least a little bit more power efficient than the current ones. GA103S and GA107S are supposedly mobile exclusive chips.

Anyway (assuming there is any truth to this) it sets the stage for CES-timeframe announcements for 12th gen Alder Lake + NVIDIA Ampere SUPER gaming laptops, which would probably launch later in 1Q 2022. These chips could also certainly be used in an Ampere refresh for next year's Precision systems (as something like "RTX A5200"), which we would maybe hear about in March/April 2022. We could see the vRAM of the high-end GPUs finally increase... to just 20GB (A5200) and 10GB (A4200).

https://www.neowin.net/news/nvidia-reportedly-making-rtx-30-super-series-gpus-for-laptops/
(one of many articles on the subject)

 

Sounds like marketing at this point. Hopefully there are at least more RT and tensor cores or else it will be a complete waste. TSMC 7nm (originally planned for 3000 series) is reportedly 10% more efficient than Samsung 8nm. It isn't enough to make up for the 25% more CUDA cores that the 3080 mobile will gain. Unless the new GPU's are way more power efficient, there will be very little difference.