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1 minute ago, IAmAndre said:

Now Dell keeps mentioning "VPro" all over the specs, and I can find on the Intel website that VPro laptop iGPUs are designed to improve security and other business stuff, but also boost the AI performance. Now I don't know if that's just marketing or not. Isn't a 155h just a 155h, or are there business-oriented variants with better AI performance?

vPro is a bunch of technologies, but the feature that usually sets a device with it apart is very-low-level remote management (e.g. remotely access and change BIOS over Wi-Fi). If two laptops have the same CPU, their performance won't be impacted by vPro being present or absent (in theory).

 

It's possible some of the other requirements for the vPro badge (virtualization and protected execution features) could be deactivated by the firmware, but I've yet to encounter a device with them intentionally turned off.

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I'm considering buying a Dell Precision laptop and I'm not sure if I should get the version with the Nvidia GPU or not. The thing is I want something that stays cool and quiet and most of my activities rely on CPU performance and RAM. But I wouldn't mind having a GPU just in case, for light gaming and maybe loading LLM models at some point.

 

Now Dell keeps mentioning "VPro" all over the specs, and I can find on the Intel website that VPro laptop iGPUs are designed to improve security and other business stuff, but also boost the AI performance. Now I don't know if that's just marketing or not. Isn't a 155h just a 155h, or are there business-oriented variants with better AI performance?

 

Thanks!

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1 minute ago, IAmAndre said:

Now Dell keeps mentioning "VPro" all over the specs, and I can find on the Intel website that VPro laptop iGPUs are designed to improve security and other business stuff, but also boost the AI performance. Now I don't know if that's just marketing or not. Isn't a 155h just a 155h, or are there business-oriented variants with better AI performance?

vPro is a bunch of technologies, but the feature that usually sets a device with it apart is very-low-level remote management (e.g. remotely access and change BIOS over Wi-Fi). If two laptops have the same CPU, their performance won't be impacted by vPro being present or absent (in theory).

 

It's possible some of the other requirements for the vPro badge (virtualization and protected execution features) could be deactivated by the firmware, but I've yet to encounter a device with them intentionally turned off.

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5 minutes ago, AbydosOne said:

vPro is a bunch of technologies, but the feature that usually sets a device with it apart is very-low-level remote management (e.g. remotely access and change BIOS over Wi-Fi). If two laptops have the same CPU, their performance won't be impacted by vPro being present or absent (in theory).

 

It's possible some of the other requirements for the vPro badge (virtualization and protected execution features) could be deactivated by the firmware, but I've yet to encounter a device with them intentionally turned off.

Ok then just marketing. Well, I don't need the remote management stuff and other business-oriented features but that's okay, I think I'll just skip on the dedicated GPU as I'd better off spending the extra money on more RAM or a better CPU or screen.

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11 hours ago, IAmAndre said:

Hi,

 

I'm considering buying a Dell Precision laptop and I'm not sure if I should get the version with the Nvidia GPU or not. The thing is I want something that stays cool and quiet and most of my activities rely on CPU performance and RAM. But I wouldn't mind having a GPU just in case, for light gaming and maybe loading LLM models at some point.

 

Now Dell keeps mentioning "VPro" all over the specs, and I can find on the Intel website that VPro laptop iGPUs are designed to improve security and other business stuff, but also boost the AI performance. Now I don't know if that's just marketing or not. Isn't a 155h just a 155h, or are there business-oriented variants with better AI performance?

 

Thanks!

Vpro doesn't give any extra performance. It just means the CPU has a whole bunch of professional management features.

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