Dell XPS 15 9550 owners thread (Thoughts,benchmarks etc)

All of you lucky owners out there, how about posting a few thoughts,
pros & cons,
comparisons,
throttling issues etc.
Your feedback will be greatly appreciated.

 

Just received my i7/4K/512G NVMe PM951/16g from the Microsoft Store

Benchmark tests:

XPS-15 PCMark 8 Work Conventional test score: 2,603 (on battery)
(Comparison score : Surface Book 2,583)
Dell Inspiron 13 is faster with a 2,728 score
http://www.pcmag.com/image_popup/0,1740,iid=470416,00.asp

XPS15 PCMark 7 test score is 5,678 (on battery)

XPS15 PCMark 8 Home 3.0 Accelerated 3.0 score 2,724 (on battery)
(compare to Apple MacBook Air 13 inch 2015-03 3,579 Home Score Accelerated v2)

Work Score Accelerated v2 3460 (on battery)
Work Score Accelerated v2 3784 (on A/C - balanced mode)
Work Score Accelerated v2 3832 (on A/C - high performance mode)
( compare to MacBook Air 4367 Points)

Can anyone else run the PCMark 8 test on their XPS-15?

PC-Mark 8 Basic Edition free download:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/pcmark_8.html

 

Thanks Huberth, as soon as mine arrives i'll do the same test, with same config.

 

Gotta remember that the Bench is driving the display at UHD. Unless the bench can normalize this it's a bad comparison unless the CPU is being tested alone.

My 2 cents

 

I think most owners have been posting thoughts, opinions, and even benchmarks on the ongoing XPS 15 thread...

 

I am on my second XPS 9550, first from Dell, second from BB. Yesterday I received a Precision 5510 from Dell as I felt I could use the Xeon power - I am an equity options trader but travel so need ready access to
markets wherever I am. I ran PCMark and PassMark benchmarks on both with no meaningful difference.
So I decided to put a typical heavy workload on both machines and use Windows task manager data to
assess how they loaded up. You will be happy to know that here also there is no meaningful
difference. By that I mean specifically that for multiple streaming videos and streaming live quotes across the 802.11 AC 5GB Wifi, and for CPU, GPU, and memory the XPS was faster in as many cases as the Precision was. And in all cases the difference was inconsequential. I will be returning the Precision to Dell as it provides no benefit for the extra cost
for my use that I can detect. The PCs perform the same and look the same [both 4K with no pixel problems].
The BB XPS has the 1TB Samsung and was actually priced below the best price Dell offers for the same
configuration. I rarely use BB but in this case they did fine. BTW the first XPS went back as it was unstable.
I have 50 years, yes 50, using [meaning fixing] computers and I did everything a customer could possibly do with to first XPS but there were just too many BSDs with a great variety of messages to have any hope.