Dell Precision 5570 Real User Verdict: Great or Junk?

The P1 Gen 4 will be more reliable than the 5570 by far. The 5570 has a faster CPU and double the VRAM (GPU memory), but is built on the defective from day one XPS 15 platform with both insufficient cooling, an undersized VRM and defects in PCIe lane tracing on the system board.

I have both a 5530 and 5570 for work and they are perfectly fine. 5530 soon 4 years old. battery still 90% and it's running like on its first day. 5570 is one month old and just great.

Own and have owned a lot of brands of computers... Never had any hardware issues with any of the many Dell Precisions or XPS... Lenovo's? Yup. HP? Yup.

The computer might still be registered to the companys IT Management tool, such as Intune. When the computer first connects to the internet, it checks if it is registered. Contact your previous employers IT Support, and ask them to unregister it for you.

We've deployed a lot of Precision 5560's and they've all worked great.

This is fine, its kind of the gold standard in mobile workstations. Would a better GPU be better? Sure. But otherwise, its great rig for the right price. Its probably one of the best "thin and light" workstations you can get.

The 5570 is MUCH nicer/better/faster. But. It has no ports. I have several 5570's for my users and the number one complaint is the macbook style port configuration. Its all USBC. Not even a power cord.

I have one of these as a work laptop with exactly the same specifications, and personally I wouldn't recommend it - the problem is that although the CPU and GPU are high spec, the cooling and power delivery is completely inadequate meaning that you don't get anywhere near the performance you should be able to in my opinion. I've had endless issues with thermal and power limit throttling, and day to day my Lenovo Yoga which has only a 12th-gen i7 and Intel GPU seems to perform better.

Yeah so generally the issue is with this line of precision models. I'm guessing you have an "H" line like the 11850-H, etc. Gonna destroy the battery super fast no matter the case.

So I've been having a very similar problem on my Precision 5570, but I eventually solved it by having my work do an earlier refresh to a Precision 5670 lol. Unfortunately within a few updates and weeks later, the problem came back on a brand new machine.

You might check out the refurbished Dell laptops on the official Dell refurbished website.

This is your answer. The bezels got smaller so they can now fit a 16" screen with a similar footprint. The 2nd digit in the model number is the diagonal screen size, minus 10.

I have the same laptop i bought off ebay last year for $800, easily the best laptop i've ever owned.

I went 7000 series because I don't move mine much and the 5000 series can have cooling issues. But for portable power it's hard to do better for price than the 5000 series.

Got a company one, 5570, 12700h, A2000, 32GB - works perfectly fine with SolidWorks 2022. Not a single prob. At home or at work with docking station + 3 LCDs. Quick, no hiccups.

Please remember these machines are tuned for work applications. Your main limitation is going to be the quadro card as it renders slower but more precise than the GeForce. But if you're not playing graphic intensive games, you'll be more than fine. I use a 5760 with a xeon and quadro a3000 and 4k display and sometimes play retro games or online games and never have heat issues.

Had the 5570 a week, the machine has full everything i9 64gb ram, 4k screen. A2000 rtx. The battery is not that good. You will only get a few hours out of it. If you are going for this model then really you are after as much speed as you can get in a xps style machine. The 5570 really is a wolf in sheeps clothing but cannot run that far.

Picked one up with this spec for £710 so can't complain of the price. Had a 5530 was awesome for cad. They offered another £35 discount so technically £675.

Actually I just received my dell precision 5570 with Ubuntu pre-installed. The reason I chose dell is because my current employer has a deal with dell so I was able to get a big discount.

I have the 5520 and the 5570. Still prefer the 5520 with a Xeon but cannot update to Win11.

The gpu comment is completely off the mark as it is highly dependant on what you're doing. Running a 33b llm, yeah no chance. Photo editing and the like? Especially seeing as its a workstation gpu and not a gaming gpu? Cakewalk.

I have a school managed laptop - precision 3570/intune/vPro- it was running 90-100% cpu and ram. I tinkered with the services and startup apps and updated the bios and it is now very efficient and normal now, using just 10-30%cpu and 40% of 16gb of ram. I checked the usage to determine if I wanted to use the laptop for music production DAW use and CAD software.

Currently have the 12800h with 32gb and A100. But I start to think it's some of the software my company puts on them.

The 5570 may be a biggest hunk of overpriced JUNK Dell has ever produced. I had my 3rd motherboard replaced today? It has been nothing but trouble since day 1 and Dell doesn't care, because there enough fools like me who purchase this poor excuse for a reliable Laptop. No more when the warranty runs out, it goes to eBay and i plan to purchase a Lenovo.

LOL, glad to see I'm not alone! I have to use a corporate-imaged 5570 due to company policy and it is inarguably the worst laptop I've ever used, ever! Granted, they only configured it with 16GB, but it's almost constantly running at 100% CPU and 95% memory, just by having VSCode or pyCharm open. As a SW Engineer, this is a horrible laptop to get stuck using!

I've had a similar bad experience with the 5570. The touchpad intermittently stops working, the USB ports often don't work, and a lot of these issues occur when plugging in or unplugging power. It's a bit difficult to diagnose these issues, but I suspect they are hardware problems. This is the 2nd machine with these issues - I sent the first one back since it was so bad, but the replacement has the same issues.

Agreed - I have the 5570. It is by far the biggest POS brink I've ever used.

5570 WORST DESIGN EVER! You have to use your fingernails to open the lid! Insufficient port styles. NOT impressed at all with Dell on this model.

My experience with it is pretty bad. Spec: vPRO i7 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12800H (2.40 GHz) & RAM 16 GB. I'm constantly having issues with it while working with Solidworks. Im shocked by the poor performance of the device! It crashes constantly even running basic files!. The spec sounds good but the tuning is awful.

I ended up sending the laptop into the advanced resolution center four times, and they replaced the motherboard each time. After a lot of prodding, they ended up escalating the ticket to a senior technician who just said this is how the laptop works.

imma say the P1, the Dell has a much better CPU but it won't really last long on battery because ADL-H's ring can't idle.

P1 for the ports.

Thanks, your comment is also consistent with the reviews, they also face the same issue of over heating and low power supply. I need to rethink.

I've removed the Dell Optimiser from our Precisions as we've had issues with it. YMMV.

Off the shelf between those two, the Precision with 32 GB RAM will provide an immediately better After Effects and video editing platform - RAM preview on after effects especially. For video rendering speed, it depends on software but 32 GB should be noticeably better. Workstation gpu should also run more stable and crash less.

Even with 64GB they suck. Between dell command update and all the other security stuff, they machine take longer to open an excel file than my MacBook Air. And god forbid you try to save a file locally, Microsoft made sure it's a nightmare to navigate.

The Precision looks almost exactly the same but as far as I know they have better build quality and support + they use workstation GPUs, therefore they are more expensive.

Awesome, thank you both!

Muchas gracias 🤓

My 7560 has never worked a day in its life, and it's now 13 months since order date; 10 since actual delivery. Three motherboards, two GPUs, and 14 bios updates later.. still a complete unworkable piece of shit that idles at 70° C.

The processor is several generations old. The Graphics card is really entry level with only 8gb ram. 512GB ssd is below entry level, especially for a professional video editing machine. it's barely enough for entry level tasks currently, I'd doubt it's long term viability if you're serious about video editing.