Precision 7560 & 7760 Owners' Thread

So another year of the 5000 quadro being not much better than the 4000? Neat.

Also I just noticed looking at the 3D model on the Dell site, is the keyboard light key really on the F5, the same key used to refresh pages? Really??? This along with the no dedicated pgup/pgdown keys next to the arrows makes for a less than ideal keyboard for me. I wish that Dell would offer a few different formats of keyboards, I would definitely pay more for that.

 

Also your Precision 7X60 is being shipped from China?
I wasn't aware that it is produced there..
Thanks for the feedback

 

You should be able to toggle fn lock in the bios (there is a keyboard shortcut which is fn + esc, but the bios setting is what it is by default on boot-up). I think it's pretty stupid that the "fn" writing on the key caps are small while the volume, and brightness controls are big. I mean in 2021 with adequately big trackpads for multi-finger gestures, who uses the volume buttons, especially when they are joined with more important keys?
I'm real lucky that I rarely use the pg up/pg down keys... or else I would be screwed. All of these funky keyboard shenanigans makes me miss my M4800 more.
And yes, the A5000 is a ripoff for 90% of people buying the 7x60's. My work will heavily use RT cores and the extra memory in the A5000 (rendering in blender uses RT acceleration and takes up 8gb+ vram), and even still, I will probably only see at most a 20% improvement in GPU performance. And the GPU will still likely be bottlenecked by the CPU in many video editing scenarios. Looks like for me, a 4000 or 5000 series eGPU with 16gb+ VRAM (consumer gpu's will have that much in the next generations) will be the way to go. And it will likely be cheaper than $1000, while being faster than the current A5000 mobile (eGPU's are bottlenecked by TB4 though which can potentially be bad when loading huge scenes).

 

Yes, they are produced in China and then shipped back to the US.

 

Not much can be done about that besides jacking up the power limits on the A5000 to 160 W or more, so that each core draws as much as it might on a 110-W A4000. And the power limits can't be 'jacked up' on the Precisions, as they are not gaming notebooks, where performance and cooling are prioritised, looks and noise be damned.

It is a tradeoff. Let's see how effective Dynamic Boost is.

 

Playing with Fn-lock on my Precision 7530, it seems to retain its setting across reboots. (It might actually toggle the BIOS setting whenever you switch it, I have not bothered to check.) With Fn-lock off on this system you will lose access to the Home & End keys because they share with F11 and F12. I think I'm going to have to leave Fn-lock on and just train myself to use Fn to access F1-F12... We'll see how that goes. The fact that F1-F12 are "visually secondary" on this new keyboard will probably help with that.

 

My Precision 7560 benchmark results from userbenchmark.exe (set to Ultra Performance and disabled hybrid graphics)

UserBenchmarks: Game 96%, Desk 104%, Work 90%
CPU: Intel Xeon W-11855M - 98.1%
GPU: Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop GPU - 92.7%
SSD: Nvme PC711 SK hynix 1TB - 316.1%
RAM: Samsung M474A1K43DB1-CWE 2x8GB - 96.6%
MBD: Dell Precision 7560

 

Interesting. PL1 is 35W? What mode was Dell Power Manager set to?

Nice to see they are shipping lower density higher performing x8 memory even for 8GB sticks.

 

My Precision 7560 benchmark results from userbenchmark.exe (set to Ultra Performance and disabled hybrid graphics)

 

Blender benchmark results: https://opendata.blender.org/benchmarks/c9a68e23-de84-4a1d-bb1a-ba46bca8242c/

HWiNFO64 log: