The GeForce RTX 3050 Ti in the Dell XPS 9510 achieves the performance of the GTX 1650 Ti

Until recently, there was a habit of installing 15W processors in thin chassis without separate graphics, or – if such a chassis was really well designed and it was not exclusively a razor blade, it endured some economical separate graphics core. At the beginning of last year, AMD came up with a novelty. When introducing APU Renoir has announced laptops that reach or close to ultrabooks, but integrate up to an eight – core 25-35 – watt APU combined with standalone graphics. The first such solution was developed by Asus, but another followed, and it gained great popularity among users: With its small size and relatively low weight, such laptops offered performance at the level of the previous generation ~ 100W Intel desktop processors and thanks to separate graphics also interesting gaming performance.

Although various manufacturers have since tried to integrate different high-performance hardware into low-cost design, this does not always work well. The editorial staff of the Notebookcheck website drew attention to Dell’s experiment, which tries to combine the performance of a 10nm eight-core Core i7-11800H (Tiger Lake, default TDP 45 watts) and GeForce RTX 3050 Ti with TDP set to 45 watts.

However, this pair probably eliminates more waste heat than the cooling of the laptop can dissipate, so the GeForce will be reduced to 35 watts almost immediately. It is not yet clear to what extent the cooling capacity of the processor and the graphics will be exhausted, so it is not possible to say objectively which piece of silicon is more to blame. To be clear what: The game performance of this set is at the level of GeForce GTX 1650 Ti. Not the GeForce RTX 2060, not the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, but the GeForce GTX 1650 Ti, which the laptop declassifies to the level of a two-year-old mainstream, rather lower. Experimenting with the settings with Dell’s “Power Manager” utility, which allows you to adjust the settings, didn’t help either.

Notebookcheck notes that the complete review with details will be released in about two days.

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