Dell G15 5511

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The Dell G15 series in the past 2 years has gradually had many positive changes in the world of gaming laptops, it brings new generation hardware equipment, and powerful performance at an affordable price. At the same time do not have to sacrifice too many details, but still, give users a machine with a beautiful design and a good experience.

This is because Dell has been applying a lot of technology that was developed for Dell’s own Alienware “big brother” products. Speaking of Dell Alienware in particular, this is still considered a quality and premium brand, many technology experts and many users have ranked it higher than the ROG series, Predator, and other gaming laptop brands.

That makes Dell G15 one of the best gaming laptops in terms of design and performance. In the new generation, they are equipped with Tiger Lake H CPU and RTX Ampere GPU, come with a high refresh rate screen, and other outstanding elements.

Specifications

CPU: Intel Core i7-11800H / i5-11400H / i5-11260H

GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 / RTX 3050 Ti (95W) / RTX 3050

Display: 15.6 inch / Full HD / IPS / 120Hz or 165Hz

2 Ram slots and 2 M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe slots.

Dimensions: 357.26 x 272.11 x 21.32 – 25.33 mm

Weight: 2.81kg (6.2 lbs)

1. Upgradability

The highlight of the Dell G15 5511 comes from the good upgradeability of the device, the machine can upgrade both Ram and storage memory. Users will get 2 SODIMM slots and 2 2280 NVMe PCIe x4 M.2 slots.

The cooling system is located below the motherboard, surely Dell has a reason to do this.

2. Battery life

The battery inside the Dell G15 5511 has a capacity of 56Wh, and it has delivered a good life, especially when you consider the rather power-consume hardware components.

In the test with the condition: screen brightness is adjusted to 120 nits, turning off all running programs leaving only one program that we used to test, Windows’ Better Performance mode is being used turned on. The result is the Dell G15 5511 for 9 hours and 15 minutes of Web browsing, or 6 hours and 24 minutes of video playback.

3. Performance

The Dell G15 5511 model that we are testing is equipped with a configuration: Intel Core i7-11800H processor chip combined with RTX 3050 Ti (95W) graphics card.

In terms of CPU performance, the device scores higher than the AMD-equipped Dell G15 (5515), as well as other competitors like the HP Victus 16.

In terms of GPU performance comparison, we evaluate that the RTX 3050 Ti with a TGP 95W has performed quite well, so the next thing to care about is how the cooling system below will perform.

4. Heat dissipation system

Dell G15 5511’s internal cooling system includes 4 copper heat pipes with 2 shared pipes between the CPU and GPU. Both components also have a separate heat conduction tube. Comes with a sheet metal heatsink for VRM circuitry and GPU graphics memory.

Stress test test

In this stress test, we push the performance of CPU cores to the maximum of 100%, according to the severity of the tasks and each milestone, thereby monitoring the level of stability of the clock, and the output temperature of the processor chip.

Compared to competitors, the Dell G15 5511 model had a very good performance, the device maintained a good and stable clock level, while the temperature was not too hot.

The RTX 3050 Ti graphics card is also well “managed” to operate at the best level of performance of all similarly equipped gaming laptops we’ve tested. It clocked at nearly 1900MHz, while the temperature did not exceed 75 degrees Celsius. The heatsink did a good job of cooling the system.

The temperature on the keyboard surface is very impressive, not too hot, and exceeds 40 degrees Celsius the hottest point measured is only 36.4 degrees Celsius.

5. Keyboard and touchpad

The keyboard is a detail that Dell needs to pay more attention to and invest in later G15 generations, it seems that the company has “forgotten” when only installing 5511 keyboards from the Vostro laptop line. When the keys have a short keystroke and the response speed is not fast, the navigation arrow keys have to try to “add” to the overall keyboard layout, resulting in their size being quite small.

The touchpad is also quite small in size, with a few dead spots when clicking, but overall it still gives quite smooth and responsive operation.

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