Upgrading the DGFF GPUs in the Precision 7530 & 7730

Glad to be the guinea pig. Real pity the 110 W vBIOS doesn't work, though; would've eked an easy extra 30% of performance. VBIOS might be corrupt, but the flashing went OK, however, so... I'm not sure. Still glad to have a GPU 50% faster than the one the laptop came with.

 

I have just T1000 right now. I am mostly using Premiere Pro and After Effects. I am wondering if 16 gb of memory could help with huge projects. Anyway even just upgrading to RTX 3000 should double the theoretical performance I have right now. Will Adobe programs make use of it, is a different topic.

 

Unless you are editing 4k RAW videos with heavy colour grading then 8GB is fine, for 1080p 4GB will even work.
Premiere Pro is heavily dependant on CPU, I noticed that my old FX-8370 with a R7 370 was absolutely smoking my quad core laptop with a 1060 in it in rendering time.
After Effects again is about similar to VRAM use, they use more physical memory than VRAM majority of the time.

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That VRM looks pretty good, 5x NCP303150 for Vcore and maybe 2x NCP302045 for Vmem (photo is pretty blurry in that area). At 80W TDP you ought to never have issues with that card dying like a few 2080's did on the Area 51m. The temps should also generally be better at 80W than at 110W. My 7740 can get quite warm when I have five WoW clients running on it and the RTX 4000 + 9880H are both operating at close to max TDP.

 

The thing is, an 80 W TDP means that temps are so low that there's plenty of room for at least 20 W more, even in a cramped 15" machine. The RTX 5000 is (in theory) extremely powerful, as it has as many cores as a GeForce RTX 2080 Super, but the super low power limit makes it nearly pointless.

Furthermore, as you mentioned, the power delivery is rather good, so there's room for a 110 W TDP just like on the 17". If temps go too high, let throttling take care of it.

Many other 15" notebooks have GPUs with power limits well into 100 W and greater.

 

My thought then is that the Embedded Controller is probably monitoring TDP of the GPU (as well as the CPU) and may enforce the 80W limit on the 75x0 models.

I would probably still choose a RTX 4000 MQ (or whatever they are calling these low TDP models) over the RTX 3000, just for the extra VRAM and additional CUDA cores. In theory for any applications where you don't need more than 8GB VRAM it should perform just as good as the RTX 5000 MQ at the same TDP.

 

It's a VBIOS power limit, actually. And you're right: everyone should choose the RTX 4000 if they're purchasing the machine new, but I got such a sweet deal on the RTX 5000 (almost precisely US$200 including sales tax), that it was almost pointless to not buy it.

 

Thank you very much!

I do quite heavy color corrections with many local adjustments. In renders my cpu is pushed to the max, and also ram, so I am planing to add some more, if I can find the one I want first. ECC 32gb seems to be quite rare. I got upgraded by bell from 7510 because they couldn't fix it. I got 2286 cpu, but had no chance to choose gpu, so I am looking for the possibilities if there is any way I can change it.

 

ECC might help a little but most times render errors are caused by GPU Driver, at least in my experience with both vendors, intel GPU has been very stable when I tried it but slower of course.

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@Ionising_Radiation

I would like to buy one of your Quadro RTX cards if there are any available.

My country does not have any M2F8R heatsinks though.

Do you have any advice?

I reviewed the thread and found the heat sink at this link:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/264583629858