Dell Precision 7560 & Precision 7760 pre-release discussion

* The RT and tensor cores would go up as well; the GPUs are laid out in "blocks" with a certain number of CUDA, RT, and tensor cores in each block. The number of cores is proportional among all of the GPUs (in a given architecture).
(Extra tensor cores are not really helpful for gaming applications; we already have more than necessary to run DLSS, the only current application for them.)
* I do not think that TMSC was ever planned for Ampere other than the original/early A100 chip (which has a different architecture despite being named "Ampere"; it lacks RT cores). It was reported that Ampere was going to be made by Samsung as far back as early 2019. The manufacturing node has to be selected early in the design phase; they can't easily switch to another one after the design is well underway. I also rather doubt that these new chips will be made by TSMC. It would be much less effort for NVIDIA to just continue using Samsung for additional variants of the same architecture, and I don't see them putting in the cost to change to a different node if they aren't going to be able to make their money back by using it in high-cost business/datacenter GPUs.

 

looks like the 7760 priced dropped another 5%. 7560 still the same. I am still waiting on my i9 7560 ordered on 6/16 (ESD 8/6) and Xeon 7560 ordered on 7/6 (ESD 8/12) to go into production. The 7760 I ordered on 7/2 (ESD 8/9) went into production on 7/5.

I wonder if it is that the 7560 is more in demand or there is a parts issue or both.

 

That's a shame for the 7560 users.:/
I lucked out however, I placed my order yesterday, saw the further drop in price, canceled and reordered, saved 327.76USD.
Some parts are cheaper as well, the price difference between the A4000 and A5000 used to be about 1,005USD, now it's 905.80USD, this discount applies to other parts as well.

Plus selling my 7740 once this one arrives will further mitigate the price.

 

I guess it is just due to demand.

 

I couldn't cancel since they already finished producing my order, could have saved $350 but I mean it will probably be discounted even more before the 7770 comes out. I got a good enough deal for me, and I'm impatient for a new machine so I wouldn't mind it coming a bit earlier, getting the new laptop ~1.5 weeks earlier will help recoup a small portion of the costs...

 

So the 3080 will be roughly equivalent to the 3070 Super? If so, that would be around a 20% improvement in performance for RT heavy applications. The 4000 series will likely have a much bigger improvement in ray tracing applications considering that AMD also has ray tracing acceleration units (that are worse), so they somewhat pose a threat to Nvidia.

 

I wonder if you can ask for price match

 

Are you referring to a price change after purchasing the laptop? Do you think I could make them give me a partial refund so I only pay the price of the current deal?
Or a price match to the 7760?

 

They do have a 30 day price guarantee, just call Customer Support to get a partial credit, no need to cancel the order.

 

Thank you! I am contacting customer support right now... hopefully I can get the refund
Edit: they closed for today, so I have to call tomorrow... should have called earlier

I screen recorded the lower price config so even if the deal goes away, there shouldn't be any reason why they don't accept the price guarantee