Dell updates G5 and G7 gaming laptops with Nvidia's new RTX 2000 cards and a 4K OLED display

[Redaktion]

Dell has announced at CES that it is upgrading the G5 15 5590, G7 15 7590, and G7 17 7790 with the new Nvidia RTX mobile GPUs, including the top-of-the-line RTX 2080. An OLED screen option is also being added, similar to the offering in earlier models of the Alienware 13.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-updates-G5-and-G7-gaming-laptops-with-Nvidia-s-new-RTX-2000-cards-and-a-4K-OLED-display.387871.0.html

[law]

they sure use the same chassis for something that is (presumably) even more thermal hungry than the GTX 1060?

[sticky]

Recycling chassis and cooling design seems to be the "case" for the majority of performance laptops since as early as GTX 9xx series. CPU bump from 4C/8T to 6C/12T has been a hot throttling disaster. Now manufacturers are jumping at a chance to upgrade dGPUs above their previous level e.g. shoving up 2080 Max-Qs in thin, 2 kg laptops. The following consequences will be interesting to watch.

[GrosseFatigue]

How did Dell know that a 17" OLED 4K display with the new RTX 2060 was what I was looking for! No one will have this winning combination of screen and graphic card. And a 90W battery option. I cant believe it. The RTX 2070 is tempting but I am not into gaming and there are some advantages of getting the lower spec card. Today I just cant buy a plain business laptop without a nice graphic card like people dont buy sedans anymore. The "gaming" laptops are the SUVs of laptops. At some point everybody will want one.

[sc]

What is the difference beetwen G7 and G5 laptops?

[raylit20]

Sc, The G7 is a little bit nicer build quality in person. There are very few differences in the two trim levels when they are optioned with the same hardware.

I had the G7 with the i7-8750H and the GTX 1060 6gb and had to return it due to constant thermal issues. Even a reseat on GPU + CPU with Liquid Ultra thermal paste only helped a little. Had a cooling dock underneath it the whole time as well. I will say that's a LOT of computing horsepower to have in a laptop and I'm not surprised at all it gets so hot!