Precision 7560 & 7760 Owners' Thread

Though I don't play games, it's nice being able to read text perfectly while scrolling. On my XPS, with moderate movement, text was unreadable.

 

Furmark is a bit overkill for my tastes; the workload that it produces on the GPU is not similar to any actual applications. Obviously good for stress-testing (if anything is going to cause your GPU to thermal throttle, this is probably it). Also, NVIDIA has been known to artificially throttle the GPU when that is running. I'd be interested in wattage examinations from other types of tests as well. I've found that running a single 3DMark test in a loop (windowed is fine) works well, it should be able to run the GPU load up to 100%. Also I'm interested if you ever see the GPU power going (a good bit) higher than 115W so we can confirm whether or not Dynamic Boost 2.0 is "working".

For battery life, you'll probably get a boost if you go to the BIOS and enable graphics switching / NVIDIA Optimus. I wouldn't be surprised if you can get it to 5+ hours with the screen brightness on the dimmer side. But that adds a layer of complexity that might be best avoided if you are going to be using the system plugged in most of the time.

 

I have a regular 4K / 60hz 17" panel in the Thinkpad in my signature and it's fine, but 120Hz would surely bring it to the next level !

 

It's a bit annoying having to reboot... so I will test battery life with Optimus later (also I'm planning to stress test GPU right now)
Which 3DMark test will run in windowed mode? TimeSpy doesn't let me run in Windowed mode.

 

Toggling Optimus on and off is not intended to be done "willy-nilly" ... It rearranges how the NVIDIA GPU is presented to the OS so you will likely have to wait for it to reinstall the driver if you switch it. Fine for testing but in the end you'll want to pick one and stick with it.

I have an option to run Time Spy windowed. Might need "pro" or paid version of 3DMark? (I think I paid for it through Steam many many years ago.)

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With looping enabled, it will still break for loading screens unless you select only a single test.

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Unigine Valley might also work? I think you can run that one in a loop without paying anything. It's a bit of an older test, not sure if it could drive the GPU load to max on these newer GPUs.

 

Thanks for reporting on the response time. And because of integer scaling, you effectively also have a 120hz FHD panel making this the best business laptop for gaming on the built in screen.

 

IIRC, Integer Scaling at the driver level is available on any NVIDIA GPU since Turing.

 

On the 7x60 is turning optimus on or off preferred? On my 7710 I keep it off.

 

Speakers (7760): They sound amazing. The bass is inaudible below ~60hz, but going lower than that is a lost cause on any laptop speaker and will cause it to just sound worse. Pretty sure the woofers are facing downwards, and even when not reflected off a table (on your lap) it sounds very crisp. On full volume, it's too loud to be listening for long periods of time in front of the laptop. But it's hard to resist listening at full volume since there is little distortion, just a bit in the lower tones, but not very noticeable.
I would say the speakers sound better than the ones in my Precision M4800. They both have the same volume and amount of bass, but I feel like on the Precision, the sound is much more forced. On the 7760, it sounds like the speakers still have room to be louder. However, they are still loud enough to be loud 10 feet away.
But considering how much space they had, I think they could have put in slightly better speakers. Or maybe turn up the volume a bit at the expense of sound clarity (above maybe 80% volume) and make the woofers have some more displacement.
I think while these speakers lack volume, they can definitely be used instead of portable external speakers. It's nice to carry around one less thing.
Because the main speakers fire upwards, they sound horrible with the lid closed.

 

Depends. These GPU's suck power. When just sitting on a webpage without any movement of the cursor or scrolling, the dGPU sits at 15W. When scrolling, it goes to 40W.
However, I haven't tested the performance impact that Optimus has.