Aaron44126

7680 cards and 7780 cards are physically different sizes & layouts. You can't mix and match them. [Edit] I was looking at eBay and I see that some listings for a RTX 2000 show compatibility with both 7680 and 7780, so I thought maybe I was wrong (about lower-end cards at least). But then I noticed they ask you to pick between 7680 and 7780 with a drop-down. It still looks to me like the cards can't be swapped between systems.

I haven’t heard of anyone trying something like this yet on this model. Seems like it “should” work, if the replacement panel has the same connector, and you can actually perform the physical replacement. On that last point, I will say that Dell has made it a lot more annoying to replace the panel than it was in earlier systems. Before, you could snap the bezel off, take out some screws, and easily swap out the panel. Now, the panel is held in place by adhesive, not screws. Aligning a new one would be tricky. When Dell replaces a panel under warranty, they just replace the entire top part of the laptop — panel, enclosure, antennas, and all — rather than replacing the panel only like they used to.

Are you looking to try that on your current setup? (Just pointing out that P5000 and P5200 are not the same GPU.)

Can't go wrong with Samsung SSD, either 9100 Pro (PCIe5) or 990 Pro (PCIe4, and a little bit cheaper). Don't get the heatsink version, it won't fit.

You can use a 90 watt then. 130 watts will also work but it won’t get you any benefit. Similarly, any 90 watt Dell charger with the appropriate connector on the end should be fine. It doesn't have to be specific to your model laptop.

That's a standard Dell barrel power connector that they used on many, many laptops from around 2003 until pretty recently when they switched to USB-C (the "flat" connector). So you can use any Dell power adapter with that barrel plug on the end, as long as it supplies enough wattage. 130W should be adequate for any Latitude or Inspiron. https://www.amazon.com/Dell-PA-4E-Adapter-Battery-Charger/dp/B00CKYGN3W?mfadid=adm (If you search for "PA-4E" on Amazon, you will find many options, but most of them are "off-brand".) These are very pervasive, and since don't need one specific to your model laptop, you should actually be able to find one locally without too much difficulty. I would think that a used computer / electronics recycling place would have these laying around and be able to sell one to you. If you have any friends or family who work in an office where they use Dell equipment, their IT department might be able to just hand one out. (I'll note that Dell actually had two different barrel connector sizes that they used with laptops before switching to USB-C. This fat one was used with almost all systems, but some of the slim XPS systems used a much smaller barrel plug.)

“Unknown video card” is exactly what it should say. You might only get this with switchable graphics off. I’m going to suggest that you pull an old version of Ubuntu or Linux Mint, whatever was current when @DynamiteZerg did his vBIOS flash, and try using that to flash on the ES vBIOS. I vaguely remember having an issue when I tried a newer one. Do it with switchable graphics on.

OK yes, I was thinking more about "graphics" and not so much "AI", but if you have a workload that relies on quickly and repeatedly swapping stuff out in vRAM, you'll certainly notice this more. At least, according to @AL123's screen shot above, it runs the dGPU at PCIe5. So, you're looking at the bandwidth cut in half, not cut down to a quarter. Exactly right. From Precision 7750 to 7760, they removed one DGFF connector. They can run 8 lanes through each connector ... but one of the connectors is used power and control stuff, not for PCIe data. So, two connectors = 8 lanes, and three connectors = 16 lanes. Dell dropping one connector corresponded with the transition from PCIe3 to PCIe4, and as PCIe4 is twice as fast as PCIe3, technically they did not cut the dGPU bandwidth by cutting the lanes. (I think also in consideration is the limited number of PCIe4 lanes off of the CPU at the time, and the limited number of PCIe5 lanes available now. They want to allocate some to both the dGPU and to at least one of the NVMe slots...) I thought that with the connector revamp this time around, maybe they switched the pinout around and added some lanes back, but that does not appear to be the case.

Somehow they managed 16-lane for the GPUs in Precision 7750 and earlier. Precision 7750 also had four M.2 slots. The PCH does allow for some additional (shared-bandwidth) PCIe lanes. In the last few generations of systems, Dell has had one of the four M.2 slots attached directly to the CPU, and the other three routed through the PCH. (Even though there aren't that many "slots" on the motherboard, there are a multitude of other devices that gobble up PCIe lanes — the Wi-Fi, Ethernet, and WWAN chips, the memory card reader, the sound chip, Thunderbolt ports, ...) ...Not that I really think that them having it limited to 8 lanes is a big deal. The performance impact on the GPU should be minimal. It is hard to push enough data to "need" 16 lanes of PCIe4 speed, and clearly you can keep the GPU busy (100% utilization / max power draw) with this setup. I think it would not be noticed so much in real-world situations but probably appears as a slight dip on GPU-heavy benchmarks.

I think this is reporting that the GPU supports 16 lanes, but it is only running at 8 lanes (that "@8" at the end). The very low GT/s value would be because at the time that you took this, it was only running at low speed (PCIe1 or PCIe2?) because the GPU was not busy. This makes sense, I can personally confirm that previous generations (Precision 7560 and 7770 that I have access to) only have 8 lanes for the dGPU. They moved from 16 lanes to 8 lanes at the same time that they moved from PCIe3 to PCIe4. It wouldn't matter if it is a 4000 or a 5000 card. The limiting factor is the physical DGFF interface and motherboard layout. If Dell only ran 8 lanes for the dGPU, then that's that. [Edit] Tried to check if my Precision 7560 reports similarly but the security measures that they have in place now will not allow me to run GPU-Z. 😕 (That's my work system. None of my personal systems are running Windows anymore.)

Curious about this too. @AL123 Can you check? GPU-Z will report this under "bus interface".

It was an upgrade for Framework Laptop 16. CPU refresh (latest Ryzen generation). NVIDIA GPU option (GeForce RTX 5070, 8 GB vRAM) GSync certified display 240W USB-C power adapter Thermal improvements, and new more rigid top lid See video in the post above for an overview, and this one for some ideas that didn't make it.

For drivers, you'll have a much easier time with AMD (Radeon) on Linux than you will with NVIDIA. NVIDIA still produces proprietary Linux drivers that have to be installed separately. Intel and AMD have open-source drivers that are actually included with the Linux kernel. No separate install is needed for them, it just works out of the box, as long as your kernel version is newer than your GPU.

You can also adjust this setting in the BIOS if you don't have Dell Optimizer installed. (You just have to reboot in order to access it...) It is independent from the Windows power settings. I think you may be able to update it from PowerShell as well, using the tools that Dell has to update system settings from PowerShell (for purposes of mass deployment / standardization), but I have not ever tried to do that myself. I agree, though, in the event of a combo load I would prefer to see it prioritize the GPU.

The power profiles (Balanced / Quiet / Cool / High performance) will impact power draw behavior. Setting it to "Cool" might be a way to allocate more power budget to the CPU, for example; in past systems that I have messed with, this power setting put a cap on the GPU power draw but not on the CPU power draw. You used to adjust this in the Dell Power Manager app, but that isn't a thing anymore, I guess maybe it is in Dell Optmizer?