But if you would like to contribute some spare CPU cycles to help find prime numbers, by all means press the 'Join GIMPS' button.Despite its strange name, FurMark provides a full stress test for a computers video. When you run it for the first time, click the 'Just Stress Testing' button when asked. Prime95 is a distributed program which spreads the work among large numbers of computers.
There is a reason AMD and Intel recommend Prime95 for stress testing Short of NTBenchS, or whatever program(s) Intel uses for in-house stress testing your not going to find a more consistently reliable stress test then Prime95.You might have difficulty wrapping your head around the concept since gaming laptops with a higher-resolution screen typically pass as content creation laptops. That’s because the is seemingly designed to appeal to content creators, not those focused only on gaming.Voltage alone is but a vague indicator of stress the system is under, many factors can influence that considerably. If you just wrinkled your nose up in disapproval, it’s fine—from Dell’s point of view anyway.
Let's focus on the custom settings first.This review is part of our ongoing roundup of the best laptops. Understanding how the options change the behavior of the FFT routine that the stress test uses is an important part of learning how to get the best out of Prime95. I run Prime95 it goes for a little and only the app crashes.Prime95's torture test dialog includes options to configure custom stress tests alongside it's three built-in presets. Browns: TE David Njoku or. Adobe users in particular will love this notebook.I run OCCT to stress test gpu runs fine, i test memory runs fine.
Storage: 1TB Samsung P9A1 PCIe Gen 4 SSD (up to 2 M.2 drives) RAM: 32GB DDR4/3200 in dual-channel mode GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 70 watts TGP CPU: Intel 8-core 11th gen Core i7-11800H Dell specsIf your DDR4 kit is not listed on the QVL list, then it would be wise to turn on the XMP profile and do a Prime95 or Linpack Xtreme stress test first to make.
Gordon Mah UngTwo more Thunderbolt 4 ports, a UHS-III SD Card reader and headphone jack are on the right side of the XPS 17.There’s no USB-A port, but Dell does at least includes a USB-A and full-size HDMI dongle. We saw read and write performance near the maximum speed of our UHS-II card. SD Card readers can vary in speed but the XPS 17’s is top notch. Ports: We’ll let the pictures do the talking but there’s four Thunderbolt 4 ports, a UHS-III SD Card reader, and a combo analog audio jack and wedge lock port which you can see below.The left side of the features two Thunderbolt 4 ports and a wedge-style lock port.The right side of the features two more Thunderbolt 4 ports, a UHS-III SD Card reader and an analog headphone jack. Weight and size: The laptop is 14.74 x 9.76 x 0.77 and 5.4 pounds with touch screen (4.9 pounds without) and 1 pound for 130-watt power brick. Webcam and biometrics: 720p IR camera with Windows Hello support and finger-print reader
You may be thinking it’s “only” a 17-inch screen going up against laptops with 17.3-inch panels, but the 16:10 aspect ratio of the XPS 17 matters. Dell XPS 17 screen sizeDon’t let that number fool you. While the 11th-gen Intel CPU and Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 GPU are indeed attention getters, the real feature that sets the Dell apart is its giant 17-inch screen. Content creation people love high-speed LAN transfers, Dell.Content creators will love the star of the show, though.
Both of those laptops are thicker, however (and Ryzen 9 instead of Ryzen 7 chips). You can see the 11th-gen Core i7 in the XPS 17 does fairly well, but it’s still outperformed by the pair of Ryzen 9 CPUs. We also run Cinebench R15 using a single-thread. IDGFor people who actually use applications that take advantage all of those CPU cores, that’s good stuff, but the vast majority of applications used by consumers today are often very lightly threaded. But while a 16-inch screen sounds pretty close to a 17-inch screen, in actual real estate, the Dell XPS 17’s display is almost 13 percent bigger than a comparable 16-inch screen, such as thes one in the MSI Creator Z16 or Asus ROG Zephyrus M16.To give you an idea of how much larger, we physically measured the XPS 17’s panel to compare it to the physical dimensions of other popular screen dimensions.It’s even slightly faster than the desktop Core i9-9900K CPU in the original Alienware Area 51m R1, a gaming notebook that was far thicker and heavier in your bag.
IDGIn Cinebench R20’s single-threaded benchmark, the XPS 17’s Core i7 falls basically dead even with two Ryzen 9 laptops. It’s not much slower than an 11th-gen Core i9 in a similarly sized laptop. First up is the multi-threaded performance, which puts the Core i7 in the on pretty good ground.
Prime95 Stress Code A 30GB
IDGOur next result uses Handbrake to transcode a 30GB file using the Android Tablet preset. How much this matters really depends on Intel’s ability to convince more app developers to support DL Boost, but from what we’ve seen, it’s promising. No surprise here: the 11th-gen Intel laptops with DL Boost support crush older 10th-gen laptops as well as those using AMD’s Ryzen 5000 chips. It’s a slightly older version but it measures DL Boost performance—which improves image processing using AI—as applied to image tagging.
GPU performanceMoving on to graphics, we also run 3DMark Time Spy to gauge the GPU performance of laptops. IDGShorter bars indicate better performance. Overall, Dell’s notebook isn’t quite as fast as the gaming laptops at the top, but it’s really very competitive. The thin XPS 17 falls in around the middle of the pack but most of the laptops above it are essentially tied with its performance, and several are much thicker and larger. Since it leverages all available CPU cores, laptops with better cooling (or cooler-running CPUs) typically win.
For the Premiere test, a video is exported from the timeline with color correction and other effects before being exported four different ways.The fastest result comes from a high-end gaming laptop with a big fat GeForce RTX 3080 in it—but it’s really only about 15 percent faster than the XPS 17 9710. Again, no surprise: Laptops with more powerful GPUs win.If that’s enough to convince you to reach for a gaming-focused laptop, instead we do want to point out that gaming performance doesn’t always translate into similar wins in applications like Adobe’s Creative Cloud.Using UL’s Procyon benchmark we run Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, and Premiere through a set of scripted tests. IDGIn an actual game, we use Rise of the Tomb Raider at 1920×1080 resolution set to Very High and using DX11. The XPS 17 will play games just fine, but it’s really better suited for other tasks.
Dell battery life IDGOur last result is perhaps the test that matters to people: Battery life. The MSI GE 76 Raider—wielding a Core i9-11980HK and GeForce RTX 3080 at 165 watts—is about 10 percent faster.Both of these tests tell us that yes, the won’t run with a true gaming laptop, but if you live mostly in Adobe products, it may well be worthwhile to get a smaller laptop with a bigger screen while only giving up a little performance. Unlike Premiere, which does indeed tend to use more CPU cores, many actions in Photoshop and Lightroom Classic tend to rely on fewer cores and hitting higher frequencies.Procyon puts the XPS 17’s Core i7-11800H and RTX 3060 basically on par with an Asus Strix Scar G17 with a Ryzen 9 4900HX and RTX 3080 at 130 watt TGP. Red indicates either AMD CPU or GPU.Moving to photo editing, Procyon tasks Photoshop and Lightroom Classic with editing and exporting a set of images. Green indicates Nvidia GPU.
Those 180W bricks are typically larger and also require the use of an ugly-looking DC input or “barrel” connector. Typical laptops with this class of CPU and GPU use 180-watt bricks versus the 130-watt brick for the XPS 17. This lets Dell do two things: Use a smaller and lighter power supply, and charge over USB-C. Basically, the concept is to use an slightly under-sized power supply to charge the laptop and occasionally eat into the battery’s capacity. Dell hybrid chargingBefore we wrap this up, we do need to touch on one last topic: The hybrid charging system Dell uses. If you perform GPU- or CPU-intensive workloads, you should expect far less battery life.Longer bars indicate better run time.
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