Dell's new generation Precision 5560 mobile workstation continues the extreme thin and light body mold design, while upgrading more powerful hardware configurations, including Intel Tiger Lake-H architecture Core Xeon processors, NVIDIA professional graphics graphics, DDR4-3200MHz high-frequency memory, PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD, Thunderbolt 4 interface, etc., is committed to a full range of hardware upgrades. Bring a better user experience.
At present, the PConline evaluation room has received the high-end version of the Dell Precision 5560 mobile workstation (equipped with the flagship Xeon W-11955M processor and NVIDIA professional graphics card RTX A2000 laptop GPU, hereinafter referred to as the Dell Precision 5560), many users are looking forward to the actual performance of this model, we will test it comprehensively below.
Top-level configurations are the foundation of powerful performance
For professional users engaged in programming, rendering, video editing and other applications, mobile office will also have extremely high requirements for computer hardware, in order to solve the needs of this part of the user, Dell Precision 5560 will be a comprehensive upgrade of hardware configuration.
First of all, the processor part, Dell Precision 5560 high-end version model equipped with Xeon W-11955M, and the 11th generation Core processor is similar, Xeon W-11955M is also part of the Tiger Lake-H family, based on the 10nm SuperFin process, with 8 Willow Cove cores, 24MB L3 cache, The base frequency is 2.6GHz, and the maximum turbo frequency can reach 5.0GHz, which is basically equivalent to the Core i9-11980HK. Compared with the previous Core Xeon processors, there have been great improvements in single-threaded, multi-threaded, and energy efficiency, which is not only a big positive for gamers, but also more conducive to improving the efficiency of running content creation applications.
However, as a model for the commercial market, in addition to meeting the powerful performance, the Xeon W-11955M has many more features than ordinary Core processors, such as support for ECC memory, vPro platform certification, TXT technology and so on. Numerous features to provide security, manageability, and stability to meet the complex workloads of large enterprise IT departments and employees.
We tested the Xeon W-11955M using CPU-Z, Cinebench R23, V-Ray 5, PCMark 10, MATLAB R2021b, and more.
In the Version 17 benchmark integrated with cpu-Z version 1.98, the Dell Precision 5560 with Xeon W-11955M has a single-thread score of 647 and a multithreading score of 5886.4. Both single-threaded and multi-threaded performance surpass flagship mobile processors such as the previous generation flagship Core i9-10980HK and Xeon W-10885M.
Cinebench is a benchmark based on Cinema 4D software development to measure the rendering capabilities of the processor, and is currently latest version of R23. In this test, dell Precision 5560 with xeon W-11955M has a single-thread score of 1533pts and a multithreading score of 10541pts.
Rendering performance testing was conducted using the V-Ray 5 Benchmark, in which dell Precision 5560 with the Xeon W-11955M scored 8029.
These two rendering tests require multi-threaded performance, and with the blessing of Xeon W-11955M, with higher architectural efficiency and energy consumption ratio, Dell Precision 5560 still provides better performance with a thin and light body, better than many thicker old game books.
Using pcMark 10 for comprehensive performance testing, dell Precision 5560 equipped with Xeon W-11955M has a total score of 6179, a common basic score of 9936 for sub-projects, a productivity score of 8986, and a digital content creation score of 7172.
Running matlab R2021b's own benchmarking tool and comparing the benchmarking references that come with the benchmarking tool, the Xeon W-11955M on the Dell Precision 5560 is even more powerful, even stronger than many more powerful desktop processors.
The following is a comparison of the relative speeds of the processors.
In addition to supporting the Intel Xeon W-11955M processor, another highlight of the Dell Precision 5560 is the RTX A2000 laptop GPU, NVIDIA's new mobile graphics for professional graphics to replace the previous Quadro series.
In terms of parameters, the RTX A2000 notebook GPU is based on ampere architecture, the specific core is GA107, with 2560 CUDA units and 4GB GDDR6 video memory. In this test, the R510 U1 511.09 version of the Professional Edition driver was installed.
SPECviewperf 13 is one of the industry's recognized professional graphics workstation software testing benchmarks, including 3dsmax-06, catia-05, creo-02, energy-02, maya-05, medical-02, showcase-02, snx-03, sw-04 and other sub-projects, covering 3D modeling, geological exploration, industrial design, seismic simulation and other professional work scenarios, has a high reference value.
SPECviewperf 13 takes a long time to install and test, and here are the test results of the Dell Precision 5560.
With the help of the Xeon W-11955W processor and RTX A2000 notebook GPU, the dell Precision 5560 running SPEKviewperf 13 also performed well overall, and many sub-projects achieved leading results.
Procyon is a brand new benchmark suite from UL, built for professional users, and currently has a built-in photo editing benchmark and video editing benchmark for PC. The Photo Editing Benchmark is a photo editing benchmark that uses Adobe Lightroom to import, process, and modify selected images. In the second part of the test, the photos in Adobe Photoshop will be edited multiple times and layered.
Both Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop software called in this test are 2022 versions. The following are the test results of the Dell Precision 5560, with a photo editing benchmark score of 7074, which is stronger than the vast majority of mobile devices on the market.
Procyon also offers a video editing benchmark that calls Adobe Premiere Pro to export video project files to a common format. Each video project includes a variety of edits, adjustments, and effects. The benchmark score is based on the time it takes to export the video. The project contains four sub-items, namely H.264 hardware encoding, H.264 software encoding, H.265 hardware encoding, and H.265 software encoding, which test the comprehensive performance of processor and graphics card video clips. The Adobe Premiere Pro version installed in this test is 2022, which can make good use of the hardware codec functions of the RTX A2000 laptop GPU, so the Dell Precision 5560 also shows high efficiency, with a video editing score of 4061.
The thin and light body combines strong expansion to bring a perfect user experience
In terms of actual rendering performance, testing with the latest Blender 3.0 version, manually importing Bwm27 and Classroom footage for rendering (pure CPU rendering, GPU CUDA does not participate), and external monitor viewing process, Dell Precision 5560 can complete the operation at a faster speed.
Of course, unlike traditional mobile workstations, dell Precision 5560 not only provides rich and powerful hardware configuration performance, but also meets the characteristics of exquisite and flexible appearance, thin and portable fuselage. In fact, it is not an exaggeration to say that in fact, the body size of dell Precision 5560 is more like a thin and light business book, in order to meet the premise of professional configuration and high performance, but also as far as possible to take into account the light and portable attributes of the fuselage, even if it is carried around the mobile office, there will not be too much pressure.
The Dell Precision 5560 features a 15.6-inch display with a 16:10 aspect ratio and an ultra-narrow bezel design on all four sides to provide a stunning screen ratio. In detail, even if the top bezel is very narrow, it also retains a camera, an infrared face recognition module, a distance sensor and a set of microphone arrays, all of which have the functions to meet the needs of various office scenes.
The model tested this time is a 1080P resolution version, in fact, Dell also provides a top version equipped with a 4K ultra-clear resolution screen, combined with up to 500nit maximum brightness, VESA certified 16 million color HDR, 100% DCI-P3 color gamut coverage and other features, can present a clear and realistic display effect.
Detail design and expansiveness
For mobile workstations positioned as productivity tools, the importance of external expansion capabilities is also very important, and the thin and light fuselage is bound to make certain trade-offs in the number of interfaces. However, in order to meet the connectivity and scalability, dell Precision 5560 provides two powerful Thunderbolt 4 interfaces on the left side of the fuselage, and a full-featured USB Type-C interface, SD card reader, 3.5mm headphone microphone interface and so on on the right side of the fuselage.
Thunderbolt 4 interface is very powerful, can support fast charging, connect multiple monitors, external high-speed hard disk, external audiophile discrete graphics card, external with 4 ports Thunderbolt 4 docking station, and a variety of USB accessories and other features, to achieve a rich expansion, Dell Precision 5560 also provides a USB Type-A adapter for connecting traditional accessories. Combined with support for wireless connectivity technologies such as Wi-Fi 6 networks and Bluetooth 5.1, dell Precision 5560 can meet the expansion of various accessories and the need for high-speed data transmission.
summary
As a new mobile workstation product, Dell Precision 5560 combines performance and portability, combined with excellent screen display, full ISV certification, strong scalability, and Dell's exclusive intelligent experience features, the product is very competitive. It can meet the needs of content creators to run professional independent software in different application scenarios, providing powerful work efficiency.