Precision 7550 & 7750 Owners' Thread

Don't BUY DELL 7550.


The mother board and cooling system has been changed TWO TIMES and STILL my laptop produce a strong electrical noise!


So I conclude that all the 7550 has the same problem due to the tiny possibility to has met 3 parts with the same failure (less than 1/1 000 000 as shown in 6sigma approach).


The solution proposed by DELL is to disable C-state option into the BIOS, it works but the current into the CPU is always high with consequences on the lifespan and battery life (in standby mode the battery drop from 50% to 30% in one our without use the laptop)



DELL PRECISION 7550

intel i7-10875H

16Gb RAM

 

Can't say I've had any issues with mine yet, but I'll keep this in mind in case the this issue pops up. Thanks for the report.

 

(This is more about next-gen systems but I am not making a new thread for it until we have some actual hard information...)

New drivers out from NVIDIA today, and I was checking the "supported products" list and I noticed that they have a new-ish notebook GPU called the NVIDIA T500. I looked into it and it is just a low-end Turing GPU, but I think that is an indicator that NVIDIA's new naming convention for notebook workstation GPUs is basically the same as their new naming convention for desktop workstation GPUs... The "Quadro" name is dead and they didn't replace it with anything.

https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/171729/en-us

(Also really interested to see if there will be any AMD workstation laptop GPUs available this generation. With RDNA 2 in laptops landing soon, if AMD wanted to, they could put out something that was pretty competitive with NVIDIA's offering in the mobile workstation space.)

One more thing... I was poking around yesterday and noticed that there are filings for Precision 7560 and 7760 systems dated March 1.
https://fccid.io/EEC/RU0000051797

 

Glad to see I'm not the only one searching and anxiously waiting for 7560/7760 info.

 

I get excited for this every year
I expect that we will start hearing real stuff in about 6-8 weeks. I have alerts set up and if I see something meaty then I will fire up a 7X60 pre-release discussion thread.

We will be buying three or four Precision 7560 systems at the office (hopefully right when they launch). I'm also ready to upgrade my home system, but I know that I'm going to be keeping it for a long time and Alder Lake is just too interesting, so I think that I am going to be waiting one more year on that ...

 

Ya, I was hoping to hold out for Alder Lake as well but my7710 is barely clinging to life so the new 7760s can't arrive soon enough. I'm a bit disappointed though because my son still uses my old 6700 and I was hoping my 7710 would have lasted longer but ever since a botched repair by a Dell tech support, it's never been the same.

 

Oh, finally some real news about the next generation. Seriously hoping for some AMD CPUs, but there are no Ryzen Pro 45 W CPUs out yet...

 

Nothing stopping Dell from putting out an AMD Precision out of cycle from the Intel one. (They would surely give it a different model number as they have done in other cases, you're not going to see Precision 7560 offered with a choice of Intel or AMD CPU.) I'm sure its on their radar... A matter of if AMD's Ryzen Pro platform delivers everything that they would expect for a high-end workstation-class machine, and then if they think that the cost/benefit of keeping two separate product lines would be worth it. Tiger Lake is a big step up for Intel (finally)... leaked benchmarks are showing it competitive with the Ryzen 5000-series mobile CPUs. So, there might not be much of a draw for Dell to make a separate AMD variant.

I was poking around at Alder Lake information some more and there is some thinking that 11th gen could be a short generation for Intel. They just dropped the Rocket Lake desktop CPUs, but it looks like they're planning to launch Alder Lake S (desktop) CPUs first this time around, and they're targeting late 2021 for that? And in the mobile space, they are getting rid of H series and replacing it with P series (upper mid-range) and S series (high-range), but BGA and not socket like the S series in desktops? And mobile S series will go up to 55W TDP. Anyway, if they launch desktop CPUs in November/December then the mobile S series shouldn't be far behind, we might be looking at a 9/10 month turnaround from Tiger Lake (mobile) to Alder Lake (mobile) instead of the usual 12+.

 

I feel like Dell has been rather reluctant to move to AMD on most of its mobile platforms: Alienware, Inspiron, XPS, Precision. We shall see; I'd be very happy to see an AMD-based Precision.

Really? Is Tiger Lake 10 nm? I can't keep track any more, there are too many *Lakes. Intel really should adopt a new naming system.

 

Yes, we are finally done with Kaby Lake derivatives; it is 10nm, with "SuperFin", and pretty substantial IPC gains from the Sunny Cove and Willow Cove architectures. It's generally reported that Intel's 10nm process is roughly equivalent to TSMC's 7nm process in terms of density / power consumption / etc., which would put Intel and AMD on sort of equal footing for the time being in that area.

On the desktop side, they aren't getting Tiger Lake; 11th gen is Rocket Lake and it is still 14nm... but they did backport the new architecture so at least the IPC gains are there.

(Granted, everything is in flux. TSMC is already shipping 5nm chips; Apple has gobbled all of the capacity for now, but AMD is poised to move over to 5nm with Zen 4. Zen 4 could land early next year, but there's also been some recent chatter of a Zen 3 refresh and Zen 4 being kicked out a bit further. It looks like Intel's Tiger Lake, Alder Lake, and Raptor Lake after that will all be 10nm, so we probably won't see any 7nm CPUs out of them until at least late 2023 / early 2024. In any case... I'm glad that AMD is on a roll even if I don't end up getting one of their CPUs, because the competition will hopefully also drive both Intel and NVIDIA to get better stuff out, cheaper and faster. And now, Intel is also coming under pressure from Apple as they move into the CPU space.)

They have some AMD Inspirons and G5 gaming laptops, but no current business systems. AMD really only started putting out mobile CPUs that are competitive at the high end last year, so hopefully this expands... I do sort of expect that we'd see an AMD Latitude or XPS system show up before a 7000-series Precision.