kojack Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 Just wondering since it's a dedicated graphics processor, it's it on board, or an actual card? Workstation - Dell XPS 8940 - desktop creative powerhouse Mobile Workstation - Dell inspiron 5406 2 in 1 - mobile creative beast Wifey's Notebook - Dell inspiron 3169 - Little gem for our businesses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron44126 Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 If you look at the service manual, you can see that both the CPU and GPU chips are right there on the motherboard, not separate. https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-us/inspiron-16-7630-2-in-1-laptop/inspiron-16-7630-2in1-service-manual/removing-the-system-board?guid=guid-7db6166b-f81c-4e7a-b7a9-434fe48cd6aa&lang=en-us (This is for Inspiron 7630; looks like there are three different "16 2 in 1" models.) Spoiler 1 Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch, 2023 (personal) • Dell Precision 7560 (work) • Full specs in spoiler block below Info posts (Dell) — Dell Precision key posts • Dell driver RSS feeds • Dell Fan Management — override fan behavior Info posts (Windows) — Turbo boost toggle • The problem with Windows 11 • About Windows 10 LTSC Spoiler Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch, 2023 (personal) M2 Max 4 efficiency cores 8 performance cores 38-core Apple GPU 96GB LPDDR5-6400 8TB SSD macOS 13 "Ventura" 16.2" 3456×2234 120 Hz mini-LED VRR display Wi-Fi 6E 99.6Wh battery 1080p webcam Fingerprint reader Dell Precision 7560 (work) Intel Xeon W-11955M ("Tiger Lake") 8×2.6 GHz base, 5.0 GHz turbo, hyperthreading ("Willow Cove") 64GB DDR4-3200 ECC NVIDIA RTX A2000 4GB Storage: 512GB system drive (Micron 2300) 4TB additional storage (Sabrent Rocket Q4) Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 15.6" 3940×2160 IPS display Intel Wi-Fi AX210 (Wi-Fi 6E + Bluetooth) 95Wh battery IR webcam Fingerprint reader Previous Dell Precision 7530, 7510, M4800, M6700 Dell Latitude E6520 Dell Inspiron 1720, 5150 Dell Latitude CPi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturnotaku Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 You've been a member of NBR and this forum for how long and you don't know that 99.99% of GPUs are soldered to the motherboard on laptops? Desktop: Ryzen 9 5950X | 32 GB RAM | GeForce RTX 4070 | 2 TB SSD | Windows 10 Lenovo Legion Pro 7i: Core i9-13900HX | 32 GB RAM | GeForce RTX 4080 | 2 TB SSD | Windows 11 Lenovo IdeaPad 3 Gaming: Ryzen 7 6800H | 16 GB RAM | GeForce RTX 3050 | 512 GB SSD | Windows 11 Lenovo IdeaPad 5 Pro: Ryzen 5 5600U | 16 GB RAM | Radeon Graphics | 512 GB SSD | Windows 11 Apple iPad Gen 9: A13 Bionic | 3 GB RAM | 64 GB | iPadOS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenoroon Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 26 minutes ago, saturnotaku said: You've been a member of NBR and this forum for how long and you don't know that 99.99% of GPUs are soldered to the motherboard on laptops? HP has had some weird stuff recently; socketed non MXM GPUs in some of there laptops. I guess Dell also has there DGFF stuff. No question is a bad question. 2 Clevo P870TM-G: Core i7 8700k @ 4.8ghz | Clevo GTX 1080 | 32gb HyperX DDR4 @ 3200mhz | 17" 1440p 120hz B173QTN01.0 Screen | 256gb Samsung 850 EVO | 500gb WD Blue SSD | 1tb Samsung 870 QVO | 2tb Seagate 5400rpm HDD | Prema BIOS Alienware 17 R1: Core i7 4710mq @ 3.619ghz 741 CBR15 (834 CBR15 @ 4.213ghz) | Dell GTX 860m | 16gb HyperX DDR3L @ 2133mhz | 17" 3D 120hz LTN173HT02-T01 Screen | 256gb mSATA SSD Asus Zephyrus G14: Ryzen 7 4800hs @ 4.2ghz | GTX 1650 | 16gb DDR4 @ 3200mhz | 14" 120hz LM140LF1F01 Screen | 512gb NVME SSD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kojack Posted March 6 Author Share Posted March 6 4 hours ago, saturnotaku said: You've been a member of NBR and this forum for how long and you don't know that 99.99% of GPUs are soldered to the motherboard on laptops? never know.....hence the question! 1 Workstation - Dell XPS 8940 - desktop creative powerhouse Mobile Workstation - Dell inspiron 5406 2 in 1 - mobile creative beast Wifey's Notebook - Dell inspiron 3169 - Little gem for our businesses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryan Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 even a genius asks questions, for without question there is no insight 1 1 Neo : Omen 16 2021 | i7-11800h | 64Gb ram | RTX 3060 (140w) modded | 2tb Evo plus/1tb | 1080p 100srgb 144hz | Windows 10 | Sony 55X85J | ROG Flare | Razer basilisk X Morpheus : HP 15-dy2018ca - 11th gen I5 | 16gb DDR 4 | 1tb SSD | intel Xe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kojack Posted April 1 Author Share Posted April 1 Ryan, you know me too well! ha ha. 1 Workstation - Dell XPS 8940 - desktop creative powerhouse Mobile Workstation - Dell inspiron 5406 2 in 1 - mobile creative beast Wifey's Notebook - Dell inspiron 3169 - Little gem for our businesses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eban Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 The only stupid question is the one not asked!! Living in a foreign country now I ask many questions daily. Language, culture and of course it being Japan I always have to ask...WTF? Nanja Korya 3 Thunderchild // Lenovo Legion Y740 17" i7-9750H rtx2080maxQ win10 Rainbird // Alienware 17 (Ranger) i7-4910mq gtx980m win10 RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kojack Posted April 1 Author Share Posted April 1 You live in Japan? OMG the cars must be EPIC! Can you ship me an R34 GTR please.......PLEASE! 1 1 Workstation - Dell XPS 8940 - desktop creative powerhouse Mobile Workstation - Dell inspiron 5406 2 in 1 - mobile creative beast Wifey's Notebook - Dell inspiron 3169 - Little gem for our businesses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitje Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 It's reminded me that there is a 2-in-1 Dell convertible with a dedicated board for the graphics. It's the Dell Inspiron 7778 17in 2-in-1. Shame it's not the case for the 16. Kinda wishing people stopped addressing soldered discrete graphics as cards. 1 Formerly Vaardu Dell Precision 7540 (Delta fans equipped), Dell Precision M4800, HP Zbook 15 G2 |Not in use: HP Elitebook 8470P, ThinkPad X131e, ThinkPad T61 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kojack Posted April 1 Author Share Posted April 1 6 hours ago, Kitje said: It's reminded me that there is a 2-in-1 Dell convertible with a dedicated board for the graphics. It's the Dell Inspiron 7778 17in 2-in-1. Shame it's not the case for the 16. Kinda wishing people stopped addressing soldered discrete graphics as cards. I would be fine with it, if it's a powerful card. The MX550 is not much better than my iris Xe graphics on my i7. I do LOVE the rest of the laptop. I am thinking very hard about getting the 16 2 in 1, swapping in my 64gb of ram, 4tb ssd and giving my current 14 to my son, and getting the wife one as well. Workstation - Dell XPS 8940 - desktop creative powerhouse Mobile Workstation - Dell inspiron 5406 2 in 1 - mobile creative beast Wifey's Notebook - Dell inspiron 3169 - Little gem for our businesses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitje Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 4 minutes ago, kojack said: I would be fine with it, if it's a powerful card. The MX550 is not much better than my iris Xe graphics on my i7. I do LOVE the rest of the laptop. I am thinking very hard about getting the 16 2 in 1, swapping in my 64gb of ram, 4tb ssd and giving my current 14 to my son, and getting the wife one as well. It could take battery life quite a hit with a dGPU. The only benefit here is having a little more power in some editing tasks with CUDA. I don't know if it's a significant or negligible difference. 1 Formerly Vaardu Dell Precision 7540 (Delta fans equipped), Dell Precision M4800, HP Zbook 15 G2 |Not in use: HP Elitebook 8470P, ThinkPad X131e, ThinkPad T61 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kojack Posted April 1 Author Share Posted April 1 I am mulling over getting the 16". I am happy with my 14, but my son's acer S3 is getting up there in age and I will soon have to replace it. So figure I get the 16, give him this 14 and kill 2 birds with 1 stone. The battery life will be negligible compared to my current 14 as the battery is larger in the 16 to make up the difference as far as I know. 1 Workstation - Dell XPS 8940 - desktop creative powerhouse Mobile Workstation - Dell inspiron 5406 2 in 1 - mobile creative beast Wifey's Notebook - Dell inspiron 3169 - Little gem for our businesses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryan Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 does your son game? if so an acer nitro with the 3060 for 1100cad might be a better idea Neo : Omen 16 2021 | i7-11800h | 64Gb ram | RTX 3060 (140w) modded | 2tb Evo plus/1tb | 1080p 100srgb 144hz | Windows 10 | Sony 55X85J | ROG Flare | Razer basilisk X Morpheus : HP 15-dy2018ca - 11th gen I5 | 16gb DDR 4 | 1tb SSD | intel Xe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kojack Posted April 9 Author Share Posted April 9 No, he does not game on his computer. He uses his switch and iPad for gaming. He uses his computer for creation work. Workstation - Dell XPS 8940 - desktop creative powerhouse Mobile Workstation - Dell inspiron 5406 2 in 1 - mobile creative beast Wifey's Notebook - Dell inspiron 3169 - Little gem for our businesses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryan Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 What exactly do you mean by creation work? Are you a family of artists? Neo : Omen 16 2021 | i7-11800h | 64Gb ram | RTX 3060 (140w) modded | 2tb Evo plus/1tb | 1080p 100srgb 144hz | Windows 10 | Sony 55X85J | ROG Flare | Razer basilisk X Morpheus : HP 15-dy2018ca - 11th gen I5 | 16gb DDR 4 | 1tb SSD | intel Xe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kojack Posted April 26 Author Share Posted April 26 He and I are very artistic and creative. He does not doing anything for work, but he is CONSTANTLY creating pictures, videos etc for himself. It's awesome to watch. I create for work. Speaking of that, I have just been hired by a very well known website about mobile devices to write content for them. Cannot wait to get started. 1 Workstation - Dell XPS 8940 - desktop creative powerhouse Mobile Workstation - Dell inspiron 5406 2 in 1 - mobile creative beast Wifey's Notebook - Dell inspiron 3169 - Little gem for our businesses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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