Dell Precision 5750 Workstation Review

What would you prefer – a powerful machine that can handle almost everything or a portable and stylish machine which is less powerful? Choices can vary depending upon what you do. A professional can compromise on portability but never on performance. For those who don’t want to compromise of performance, Dell brings Precision 5750 mobile workstation.

Build and Features

Though it’s a 17-inch workstation, yet it’s quite thin. Dell uses the combination of aluminium and carbon fibre to build its outer shell, which makes it durable lightweight. The mobile workstation si customisable, so the weight will differ depending upon the configuration you choose, however that will be over 2.17 kgs.

There are two screen options – FHD+ (1920x1200 pixels) resolution and UHD+ (3840x2400 pixels) resolution. You can choose as per your preference and budget, surely the lower would cost less. You can also opt for touchscreen functionality.

The 5750 is powered by a 10th-generation Intel Xeon W-10855 processor coupled with 16 GB (up to 64GB) of RAM and 512 GB (up to 4TB) of SSD storage. For graphics, you get two options to choose from Quadro T2000 and Quadro RTX 3000.

It comes with a full-size keyboard with backlighting and a fingerprint reader embedded in the power button. The large touchpad supports 5-finger multi-touch. It has a 720p webcam, which is almost hidden in the top thin bezel.

The mobile workstation has four Thunderbolt 3/USB-C ports, an SD card slot and a 3.5mm audio jack. The unit comes with a USB-C adapter that has HDMI port for an external display, and USB-A for older accessories. It supports Wi-Fi 6 (a.k.a. 802.11ax).

Performance

My review unit comes with UHD+ display which is impressively bright and sharp. It produces vivid colours and supports HDR 400 and 100% of Adobe RGB, which makes it suitable for graphic design and photo-editing work. The 4-sided InfinityEdge display with 16:10 aspect ratio, and diamond-cut sidewalls and machined speaker grills, it is both vibrant and visually stunning.

As the workstation is designed for professionals, it is backed by a combination of powerful hardware. While using the PC for more than a month, I run various applications which we typically use to perform our day-to-day tasks. No doubt, it manages all the applications perfectly without any performance lag while surfing the Internet, watching videos and playing games.

It is built to deal with even more heavy applications, thus I loaded it with various high graphics-intensive apps, including Adobe Suite. We opened two chrome browser with 10 tabs in each with applications like MS Word, Excel and Adobe Photoshop and Premiere. While operating the machine with all these applications running on the background, we didn’t notice any performance lag. We were able to switch between applications.

I used the PC to edit various images as well as videos. Also, I run some games that consume a whole lot of power, such as and games like Shadow of Mordor and Theif. Though it’s not a gaming machine, yet these games can help us to understand the real-world performance when a professional will use it with high graphics-intensive applications. The laptop did well, in terms of gaming performance as well. I didn’t see any visible lag while playing games.

Further, I opened 20 Tabs in Chrome and Mozilla, MS Word, Excel, PPT, etc, plus run Adobe Photoshop, Premiere and CS. Even then there was no noticeable performance. We edited a sample video and rendered that then switched between apps, still no performance lag.

Dell added the IR camera in the laptop for ExpressSign-in, which identifies you when you walk up, waking your workstation and getting you ramped up quickly. It will also lock your screen when you walk away for an added layer of security. This also has a fingerprint reader, placed on the power button. The camera is snap, but the quality is not what we were expecting from Dell.

Synthetic benchmarks Results

PCMark - 105040

Geekbench 5 - 66615

Passmark - 4220

The Precision has Dual integrated high-quality speakers, Dual integrated noise-cancelling digital array microphones. It produces really great sound, you can enjoy the genre of music with it and while playing, you really don't need any external speaker or headphones. The mic is powerful enough to catch your voice clearly, making your online meetings more pleasant.

The laptop has a giant 6 Cell 97WHr Lithium battery that provides more than 7 hours of battery backup when on moderate usage. With some heavy usage, you can get over 5 hours of battery life while with heavy graphics usage it can last for over 4 hours. While using the Imtec Battery Mark it resulted with 1 hour 40 min, which I can expect when using 100 per cent CPU.