Precision 7560 & 7760 Owners' Thread

That's a lot less than I expected

Only if the bandwidth was a bit more... transferring 10+gb data to the GPU will take a while

 

I mean it's obviously not paltry (as you said, still enough for 95% of use cases), but it's paltry considering that they haven't raised the vram in 3 generations. And the consumer 3070 mobile has the same vram. 8gb vram is fine, but I mean it's a $1000 upgrade to the A4000. 8gb is enough for almost any video editing (even in resolve which is known to eat up gpu memory), but large and complex 3d models can run into issues.
In the future, vram requirements will (probably) rise, so having maybe 10gb would be nice especially on the "quadro" A4000 card which is supposed to differentiate itself from geforce with better drivers, ecc vram, and more vram.
As to how I have scraped by with 4gb vram, I honestly don't know... but at this point, maybe 8gb will feel more than enough considering how accustomed I am to crashes due to lack of memory

 

The notebook Xeons and Quadros—unlike their desktop counterparts—are mostly rebadged Core and GeForce parts, respectively. Mobile Quadros don't even have ECC VRAM. The only differences are the driver and the restrictive VBIOS programming (locked core/memory clocks and voltage).

8 GB of VRAM in the Pascal generation was ridiculously over-the-top; today, it's just still generally more than what is necessary.

As for NVIDIA/Dell charging $1000 more, that's generally how it has always been—pay twice as much for 5–10% more performance at the high end. Have you seen the RTX 3090?

 

Err, Thunderbolt 4 is 40 Gbps, so transferring 10 GB would literally take two seconds. (Even given some delay due to overhead, I think that's plenty fast enough to basically fill the GPU's vRAM.)

 

Precision 7560 Cinebench R23 scores:
Single core: 1568
Multi-core: 8683

HWiNFO logs attached.

 

Precision 7560 Cinebench R20 score: 3440

HWiNFO log attached.

For all of these benchmarks, the Dell Power Manager was set to Ultra Performance mode, and hybrid graphics were disabled. Also for all of these benchmark tests, here is a summary of the relevant system specs:

System Model PRECISION 7560
Processor Intel Xeon Processor W-11855M (6 Core, 18MB Cache, 3.20GHz t o 4.90GHz, 45W, vPro)
Memory 16 GB, 2x8 GB, DDR4, 3200MHz, ECC, SODIMM
HDD M.2 2280 1 TB, Gen 3 PCIe x4 N VMe, SSD
Video Card NVIDIA RTX A3000 w/6 GB GDDR6
LCD 15.6,UHD HDR 600,3840 x 2160, Anti-Glare,Non- Touch,100% Adobe, 600 Nits,Cam/Mic, WWAN/ WL AN capable
OS Windows 10 Pro for Workstation s (4 Cores Plus) Multi - English, French, Spanish

 

Thank you for all benchmarks. I couldn't touch on my laptop from the IT department, at least until early next week

 

It is interesting that there are two CPU benchmark results. The other result, which is terrible, comes from Precision 5760. It is likely a thermal throttling problem, as expected.

 

True, I guess I'm getting too greedy

 

No undervolting? I mean it should be fine without undervolting since the cooling is good.

A precision chassis + "consumer" components would be perfect for me... but unfortunately it's either all gaming or all business.