Hi friends,
I’m testing out a Dell Pro Max MB1625 laptop. It’s a certified config, and it has a Blackwell 5000 GPU w/24 gb of VRAM and 128gb of RAM. I have a suite of benchmarks that I put new machines through, but I wanted to see if there was anything in particular that anyone would like to see. This is my first time testing Flame on a linux-based laptop. Excited to see how it compares to the 6000 Blackwell and the M3 MBP!
Can you fry an egg on it under full load?
(but seriously, mainly curious about the the thermals)
One interesting comparison to desktops would be longer duration tasks. As heat management is a lot harder in that small form factor, does it end up throttling after a few minutes because of total heat load?
In particular large MV caching is interesting as it’s a combination of GPU (first 25% of runtime) vs CPU and NMVe for the remainder, which both give off major heat too.
NFS transfers to a shared volume compared to the same on a Mac.
It’s important that the nfs export has read write capabilities greater than the network fabric so that it’s a reasonably fair test between NFS and cached SMB.
Also
Some of Sinan’s particle setups but those that require either motion blur, depth of field and multi sampling.
Text is irrelevant
Subtitles are irrelevant
Slates are irrelevant
What does this box do well in relation to flame?
Sinan’s setups will tell us.
Hmmm… I don’t think I can do that test here. My NFS share is on a spinning-disk Synology and my network is 10gb. Sorry!
If the dell has thunderbolt 4 or 5 you could connect it with one of your macs.
Internal storage on macs should be performant enough.
It might make a very nice burn for your macs, and Vice versa.
What kind of tests do you have to do for dell?
Thanks, Phil. The laptop does have TB, so I’ll give that at try!
No requests from Dell. I have a collection of benchmarking tasks that I’ve put together to test HW: Motion Vector caching, ML TW, large batch setups, etc, and some other fun things that @allklier has put together.
NFS over thunderbolt will be interesting
Does it play Doom?
The one from NAB plays Quake2 like a bat outta hell.
But will it play nice?
What’s the display on a Dell Pro Max MB1625?
I still prefer apple’s own displays to my BenQ and it’s a big reason I can’t part with my imac.
Google says there’s three displays for this model of laptop.
One headache I found with using rocky was constantly updating drivers and potentially breaking the OS. Worst year of my life. Flame and Linux isnt for me. 
The display on the unit they sent me is only 1920x1200, which is a bit of a disappointment, TBH. They do have a UHD option on the website, and I wish that was part of the config. The config they sent me goes for $13k on their website, and to get the UHD screen would only have been $480 more.