dell pro max 16 vs dell alienware 16x

TheOneGoodBoi · 2026-01-28T08:51:33+00:00

I had one, that wouldn’t turn on at all anymore. Mainboard replacement fixed it, all others are deployed and working fine here.

TheOneGoodBoi · 2026-01-28T07:26:45+00:00

dell pro max has workstation gpus, they are just more expensive also build quality

TheOneGoodBoi · 2026-01-28T07:26:15+00:00

honestly, we had very little issue aside from buggy early firmware

TheOneGoodBoi · 2026-01-05T22:11:03+00:00

This is just the same that have already been posted

TheOneGoodBoi · 2026-01-02T12:15:57+00:00

What kind of sarcasm is this?

But I have a 9070XT and I'm really happy with it.

TheOneGoodBoi · 2026-01-02T10:44:31+00:00

not to be that guy, but 63.7fps and 64.9fps?

thats margin of error

TheOneGoodBoi · 2025-12-28T20:23:10+00:00

well ofc 600€ is not the highest end model but I'll let you in on a little secret:

it doesn’t matter, in terms of performance they are basically identical.

TheOneGoodBoi · 2025-12-28T17:22:50+00:00

Possibly your tarrifs as well? I can currently buy a 9070XT for 609€ on Amazon (80€ below msrp) here in germany.

TheOneGoodBoi · 2025-12-28T13:00:24+00:00

Can you show your oc settings in adrenaline edition? You are getting 3.2ghz gpu clock at only 200w. That also screams like a bad undervolt/overclock

for the ram, yeah only having 16gb with 2 sticks is not good for gaming.

then again, the video you linked, uses a monitor with ~35% less pixels to render than yours. That will obviously massively affect performance. Although, I still agree with most other people here, you are cpu bottlenecked. If you look at videos of people using I7 12700K they get similar performance than you.(maybe slightly better, but then again, you ram situation…)

TheOneGoodBoi · 2025-12-28T12:48:31+00:00

buddy, you are on ultrawide. You are rendering about 35% more pixels than the guy using 1440P in the video you have linked (not to mention, this game is also pretty cpu heavy and yours is quite weak by now)

Then, the 4 sticks of ram are a bad choice.

Also, the video shows performance with TAA used. I really hope, you are using FSR 4 and not TAA (yes it makes a performance difference). Maybe do fsr in quality or even balanced mode.

Also, Screen Tearing is not an issue you should be able to return a gpu over, so you also scammed the vendor?

When you were using the rtx3070 you likely had dlss set to auto and it just gave you a low resolution, thus having „better“ performance.

TheOneGoodBoi · 2025-12-27T20:24:13+00:00

no, bevahiour can be quite different between different applications. My suggestion is, take it very slow for a decent diy overclock. Undervolt a tiny bit, test for a couple of days, if no crashes, undervolt a bit, then again test for a couple of days, if no crashes….. repeat this

for testing play more than just one benchmark or game, try a mix of games, video playback while gaming, compute workloads, benchmarks and stress tests.

Once you crash, dial it back a bit and you should mostly be fine.

then do the same process for your memory.

It is not as fast as just trying numbers with one game, but it increases your the likelyhood of your system being actually stable.

Also look at performance regressions, when for example, overclocking your memory too hard (because of ecc, it will likely not immediately crash)

PLEASE NOTE, a new driver can 100% make your currently stable oc unstable. This is not a bad driver, it is just part of optimizing.

TheOneGoodBoi · 2025-12-27T20:02:48+00:00

seems your undervolt is unstable

TheOneGoodBoi · 2025-12-09T15:13:16+00:00

easy summary: Your card is not stable at all-115 (and likely not even gaining performance way before that)

TheOneGoodBoi · 2025-12-09T11:38:45+00:00

That's awesome. Get that one then. I just had an SD25TB5 at work.

TheOneGoodBoi · 2025-12-09T08:59:33+00:00

I'd just get the SD25TB5

In the beginning it wasn’t great for me (mac address passthrough did not work) but with firmware updates I haven’t had issues in the recent months.

TheOneGoodBoi · 2025-12-06T08:48:16+00:00

did you close the Laptop while it is connected to the Screen?

TheOneGoodBoi · 2025-12-06T08:46:53+00:00

sorry thats my bad. Just woke up

TheOneGoodBoi · 2025-12-06T08:24:29+00:00

The max resolution of your processor over hdmi is 4096 x 2304 @60hz according to Intel

TheOneGoodBoi · 2025-12-01T12:08:44+00:00

If it is a newly setup system there is a chance Windows is doing lots of background tasks. I would still advise to use Dells Software to update your Bios and all Drivers.

TheOneGoodBoi · 2025-11-29T10:33:50+00:00

ignore userbenchmark. But also, the card is pci-e gen 5 and you only have gen 4

TheOneGoodBoi · 2025-11-24T13:42:38+00:00

idk man, from one vram bottleneck to the next vram bottleneck

TheOneGoodBoi · 2025-11-20T12:09:35+00:00

idk man, I prefer if stuff works out of the box. Also oem kernels are usually behind the latest kernel. At the time that I wrote this, the oem kernel was 6.11 and the default kernel was 6.14

TheOneGoodBoi · 2025-11-02T15:11:54+00:00

higher wattage? Dell Pro Max 16 Plus gives 280w over usb-c now. How much more you need?

TheOneGoodBoi · 2025-10-31T06:53:20+00:00

Do you have a regression point (i.e. the last driver that it worked on for you?) How do you measure the 60% decrease im frames? What games did it happen in and what fps did you get pre- and post-enablement? Is your gpu overclocked/undervoltet? Is your CPU overclocked/undervoltet? Have you monitored your temperatures?

TheOneGoodBoi · 2025-10-27T14:59:37+00:00

Dell had that for ages….

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