Dell's Precision 5470 is an incredibly thin and light portable workstation, but it's too slow to be practical.
Dell Precision 5470 Score Details “The Dell Precision 5470 is small and narrow, but it lacks the power of a portable workstation.” Pros Cons Portable workstations are a different breed of laptop. They’re aimed squarely at demanding tasks, specifically those that use intense engineering, scientific, and creative applications.
And here’s the problem: While the Precision 5470 is definitely a fast 14-inch laptop, it isn’t so fast that it justifies its workstation designation or workstation pricing. We don’t have a selection of benchmarks specifically for portable workstations, but the PugetBench benchmark serves as a decent proxy. And the bottom line is that the Precision 5470 simply isn’t fast enough. Part of that is because the Core i9 is wasted in the thin and light chassis — it immediately hit 100-degrees Celsius and throttled back frequencies in each of our CPU-intensive benchmarks. And the RTX A1000 doesn’t provide enough of a boost.
Again, though, it’s hard to justify the Precision 5470’s size and price when a laptop that costs less than a third as much and is only slightly larger performs almost equally as well. Dell will argue that Intel’s vPro makes the Precision 5470 easier for an enterprise to secure and manage, and that’s true. And the RTX A1000 is designed and certified to run those key applications more reliably, which is something we can’t test.
The audio is provided by four speakers, two upward-firing and two downward-firing, that pump out plenty of volume with clear mids and highs and a touch of bass. They’re likely similar to those found on the XPS 15, meaning they’re among the better speakers you’ll find in a Windows laptop.
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