Dell Precision 15 5000 Series Mobile Workstation Review: Pro Power And Style

Name: Dell Precision 15 5510 Mobile Workstation
Brand: Dell

by Joshua Gulick — Tuesday, February 09, 2016, 12:16 PM EDT

Next, we checked out the workstation’s graphics capabilities, using Futuremark’s 3DMark benchmarks for comparison.

Futuremark 3DMark 11

Simulated Gaming Performance

Futuremark 3DMark 11 measures your system’s DirectX 11 graphics performance. The processor and memory influence the score, but the GPU naturally plays a major role.

The Precision 15 5510 blew our other systems out of the water in this test. To be fair, many of them aren’t equipped to handle graphics processing as well as Dell’s latest workstation. Still, the system clearly has a powerful GPU onboard.

Futuremark 3DMark Cloud Gate

Simulated Gaming Performance

The newer 3DMark suite breaks its tests down by computer type. Fire Strike, for example, is aimed at high-end gaming desktops. Cloud Gate, on the other hand, is designed for more mainstream notebooks. As with 3DMark 11, the GPU plays a large role in results, which are measured in points. Higher is better.

Here again, the Dell Precision 15 5510 proved its graphics chops. This bodes well for its gaming capabilities (despite it's professional GPU), which we tested next.

Tags: Intel, Dell, workstation, Xeon

Joshua Gulick

Josh cut his teeth (and hands) on his first PC upgrade in 2000 and was instantly hooked on all things tech. He took a degree in English and tech writing with him to Computer Power User Magazine and spent years reviewing high-end workstations and gaming systems, processors, motherboards, memory and video cards. His enthusiasm for PC hardware also made him a natural fit for covering the burgeoning modding community, and he wrote CPU’s “Mad Reader Mod” cover stories from the series’ inception until becoming the publication editor for Smart Computing Magazine. A few years ago, he returned to his first love, reviewing smoking-hot PCs and components, for HotHardware. When he’s not agonizing over benchmark scores, Josh is either running (very slowly) or spending time with family.