Dell Precision M4700 and M6700 - Preliminary Info

Just wanted to give you all some updated info. Dell released M6700 drivers and I have been updating my system.

Early GPU benchmarks of the K5000M put it way ahead of any previous Nvidia Quadro or AMD FirePro.

It is roughly the same speed as the Nvidia GeForce GTX 680M. It is slightly faster than the AMD Radeon HD 7970M.

Will be posting more Benchmarks later. Have to make sure I am using the best drivers and have my machine tweaked for benchmarking before I post numbers. Lets just say the early ones look really good.

 

The Xeon E5-1650 is a Sandy Bridge-E 6-core CPU, so it will blow away the 3920XM in heavy duty compute work.

 

Depends on whether you can OC' the 3920XM or not. The 2960XM could be pushed past 5GHz on all cores in the M18xr1, so it was pretty close to the 3960X in multi-threaded tasks and annihilate it in any other case.

 

Well, yeah, but stock for stock, or even stock Xeon vs 3920xm with the free +4 multipliers, the Xeon would be faster. Too bad you can't overclock those Xeon's though. Overclocked LGA2011 is awesome sauce!

 

So the 4700 is announced, and on the US Dell site all the expected options are available. On the Dell France site though there is one big option missing - the PremierColor wide gamut screen!

https://www.dell.com/fr/entreprise/p/precision-m4700/fs

Dell, what is up with that? I want to order one, but its only available in the US (Or perhaps UK, DE - need to check those sites). Sigh.

 

These are two totally different processors designed and built with two totally different operating environments in mind.

Sure, the Xeon will always be bigger and more powerful then its laptop equivalent--for obvious reasons. But considering the size/power ratio advantage, the 3920xm is the clearly the superior processor. That said, there is one thing that the Xeon will never be able to do as well as the 3920xm: that is, go outside and play.

 

You have to realize that you are making a very subjective statement here. Saying the 3920xm is superior assumes you want mobility. As far as pure performance, the Xeon is faster. Don't forget that the 3920xm is the exact same die as a desktop i7 3770. Sure both have their advantages, but honestly this is getting way off topic. I was just making a simple statement that in stock config, under a compute load the Xeon is faster, which is fact, not opinion.

 

Which I never denied. However, the impression you give that the Xeon is better presupposes the criteria is solely dependent on power/speed.

The 3920xm is pound for pound more powerful and therefore superior in that its operation is 9/10 the Xeon in a portable form factors. That sir, is also fact.

 

1. most applications still cant use 6 cores effectively. the 3920xm will win in anything efficient in utilizing 1-8 threads, including gaming.
2. the 3920xm can be OC'ed and while OC'ed will tear the Xeon apart in 95% cases.

 

you can get the 39.6cm (15.6") UltraSharp™ FHD(1920x1080) PremierColor IPS RGB Anti-Glare LED-backlit Premium Panel [Inclus dans le prix] on france.
you just have to switch to the Smartcard Reader Base for RGB LCD [Inclus dans le prix]
and pick a nvidia cart. it seems they dont offer the rgb panel with a amd cart here in europe...on the us site you can choose it.