Precision 7530 & Precision 7730 owner's thread

I saw on another site that P3200 in 7730 can reach as high as 90 watts. Nobody has tested a 7530 on that site.

 

Nice. Your 7730 does appear to have the full power Quadro P3200 with a power limit of around 85-90W. Can you take a similar screenshot of the HWiNFO window after 10 minutes of Unigine Heaven maxed out (DX11, ultra quality, extreme tessellation, 8x AA) running in a 1080p window in the background? Thanks.

 

Dell_Mano said that there are no Max-Q gpus in any Precision. He said they were all full speed chips.

 

That's a lie. The 7730 P3200 running at 1580MHz and >85W is clearly a different version than the 7530 P3200 running at 1250MHz and <70W. Different device ID and vBIOS. I doubt the 7530 can be cross-flashed with the 7730 vBIOS. In fact the 7530 is even slower than the P3200 Max-Q in the ThinkPad P52.

 

@Dell-Mano_G, could you clarify this for us and maybe speak to the Dell engineers? There's a massive discrepancy in the performance of the P3200 in the 7530 and the 7730, when neither should be Max-Q. The one in the 7530 performs very poorly indeed, and even worse than the actual P3200 Max-Q in the Lenovo P52, as mentioned above.

 

To be fair, I'm not sure if 500 points less in Fire Strike, or ~2fps less, can exactly be classified as "poorly" in this instance when compared to the Lenovo P52. Perhaps if we had Fire Strike data on the 7730, it might put things in perspective a little more.

Still, even though this isn't my primary gaming device, I would appreciate it running it at a higher wattage, or at least have been informed it was massively downclocked. I re-ran Fire Strike this morning and was able to pull 74W during the test, which is higher, but is still not close to 78W.

Edit: clarification

 

Getting a Precision 7530, expected delivery date is July 23, will post some benchmarks then. Have come across a couple posts about Toshiba SSDs not performing up to the mark due to firmware issues. Hoping that won't be the case with mine.
Specs:
Core i7-8850H
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit English
Quadro P2000
32GB, 2x16GB, DDR4-2666MHz
1TB M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD Class 50
Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 9260
Palm Rest,with Next touch finger print reader and smart card
6-cell 97Wh Lithium Ion battery with ExpressCharge™
15.6" UltraSharp FHD IPS, 1920x1080 AG, NT, Cam/Mic, w/Prem Panel Guar 72% color gamut

 

Don't mind transient peaks. It bounces a bit, but settles around the power limit which is why I had you running Heaven in the background while monitoring.

I wouldn't be surprised if the 7730's P3200 is 20% if not 25% faster just based on clock speed.

 

Not to mention the 2X the Texture and Pixel fill rates. Won't affect Games/Benchmarks much; but some workstation applications will suffer with 1/2 the speed it should have.

I would not be surprised if they were not lying about it not being Max-Q... They could have easily just Handicapped it in the firmware somewhere.

 

It's not 2x. The 7530's P3200 runs at 1250MHz under load, not 709MHz.

Dell is lying. It should be sold with the Max-Q branding, and GPU-Z should also say Max-Q.