Dell's latest mobile workstation is one of its leanest and fastest yet mostly thanks to the new Nvidia RTX 5000 GPU. Performance-per-watt is excellent and we hope to see the 165 W USB-C AC adapter on more Dell models.https://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-Precision-5680-review-Ada-Lovelace-dominates-on-workstations.741263.0.html
Excellent review!
Would it be possible to test connected to the WD19DCS dock with two USB-C cables to check if the laptop can receive the possible 210W?
So is the trackpad now similar to Macbooks - with haptic touch?
Shouldn't it be like on the XPS lines, which is a normal trackpad with diving board
That CPU is ridiculous capped and probably only exists to make the laptop more expensive.
"There should be no flickering or PWM above this brightness setting."
The usual stupidity of an NBC review. The most harmful 60Hz PWM <= 100% means that "above this brightness setting" does not exist. NBC ought to introduce a condition in its review webpage source code to omit this text module whenever PWM occurs for <= 100%.
The notebook has long battery life and a very clean interior (even with very clear screw numbering) but these disadvantages:
- the worst PWM
- astronomic price (more than 2x the price of a similarly performing 4080)
- tiny arrow keys and no dedicated page keys
- strongly mirroring display
- 51dB loud in Balanced mode
- badly chosen CPU
As too typical for Allen Ngo, he fails to test the noise under GPU load in a relevant fan profile. The fan mode Battery Power only results in -10% graphics score so demands noise tests. Vapor chamber and RTX 5000 might enable low noise unless the CPU kills it or two fans are insufficient.
I won't even comment on this Dell garbage in detail. Whoever reads me often already understands what is wrong in this article and where the author was clearly playing a trick.
We send it right under the bulldozer.
Would be interested to know if the 160W charger is compliant with the new up-to-240W USB-PD specification or if Dell is (again) using a proprietary charger. XPS's use a non-standard 130W charger, so you're stuck with the Dell charger if you want to go past 100W.