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Title: Dell 16 Premium laptop review: Faster and more efficient than the XPS 16
Post by: Redaktion on October 31, 2025, 16:31:48
Stop with the "XPS is dead" headlines — the Dell 16 Premium is a continuation of the series with similar hardware but newer Intel and Nvidia options for even faster performance than before.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-16-Premium-laptop-review-Faster-and-more-efficient-than-the-XPS-16.1145583.0.html
Title: Re: Dell 16 Premium laptop review: Faster and more efficient than the XPS 16
Post by: Phil995511 on November 01, 2025, 13:58:10
Why I won't buy it :

- Prohibitive price, sold at twice the price.

- Cooling is not very quiet / High temperatures of the processor cores under load.

- In my opinion, Intel CPUs are less efficient than AMD CPUs. Therefore, I no longer buy Intel for the moment.

- Inefficient Intel / Nvidia GPU switching under Linux.

- The underclocked Nvidia 5070 GPU delivers disappointing performance.

- Lenovo keyboards are indeed much better.
Title: Re: Dell 16 Premium laptop review: Faster and more efficient than the XPS 16
Post by: better ndoe when ;) on November 01, 2025, 16:50:15
Indeed, just 6% faster than the 4060 Laptop. wth is this

The OLED looks good, maybe the brightness could auto increase for above 400 nits, if manually not possible.

QuoteIn my opinion, Intel CPUs are less efficient than AMD CPUs
Especially when utilized and not in idle. And it's a fact, not an opinion, Hardware Unboxed' and Gamer Nexus' tests show like over 3x the power consumption for a given task of the total joules consumed, which means, yes, the INTEL CPUs measured 3x less power efficient (30% would be bad enough). Cloud providers especially are concerned with power consumption and power efficiency, so they are increasingly choosing AMD.

Quotehigh CPU core temperatures under load
Quotefor example, the CPU would boost to 3.7 GHz, 105 C, and 115 W before falling to 3 GHz, 93 C, and 67 W shortly thereafter.
Brought to you by INTEL's own, not so competitive against TSMC, lithography, well, at least it their own.

One should still hope that INTEL improves their node bc all will profit from it.
Title: Re: Dell 16 Premium laptop review: Faster and more efficient than the XPS 16
Post by: pb79 on November 01, 2025, 17:33:51
Dear NBCHK, this is another test with strange BE201 results. Could you investigate it a little bit?

Here is a similar issue and potential solution with RSC settings:

community.intel.com/t5/Wireless/Issue-with-Slow-Download-Speeds-on-Intel-BE201-Wi-Fi-Card/m-p/1720662#M61813