Dell Precision 5680 review: Ada Lovelace dominates on workstations

[Redaktion]

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

[PHVM_BR]

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?

[Kakvosipravish]

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

[LL]

That CPU is ridiculous capped and probably only exists to make the laptop more expensive.

[RobertJasiek]

"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.

[NikoB]

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.

[Also Jeff]

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.