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| Dell Inspiron 24 5477 |
All-in-one entertainment powerhouse. Featuring CinemaStream with SmartByte technology and an InfinityEdge IPS display
You’ll find a good selection of Windows-based AIOs too, and while most of them are designed for general-purpose multimedia use, there are a few out there that have the potential to double up as proper gaming systems. Last year, we tested one of these, the Dell inspiron 24 5477 a premium AIO based on AMD's Ryzen CPU and Radeon GPU.
Today, we’ll be testing the company’s new Inspiron 24 5000 series for 2018, which launched around April. Available in just one configuration on Dell India’s website, the Inspiron 24 5477 boasts of a touchscreen, 8th gen Intel Core CPU, and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 GPU for under Rs. 80,000. That’s a pretty decent set of specifications, which not many others seem to be offering at this price. Let’s take a closer look at how it actually performs.
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| Dell Inspiron 24 5477 |
Dell Inspiron 24 5477 all-in-one performance
The Inspiron 24 5477 didn’t make a very good first impression, as right from the get-go, Windows felt extremely sluggish. It took a while for the system to boot, and even with basic use, it was very laggy. Navigation in Windows wasn’t very fluid, and the system simply could not handle multitasking very well. Simple tasks such as opening Chrome or going to the Settings page in Windows could mean a wait for a good number of seconds, which is far from ideal. Uninstalling some of the pre-installed apps such as McAfee Antivirus did help, but on only slightly. The main reason for this seems to be the sluggish hard drive, which showed below-average performance in SiSoft Sandra’s File System Bandwidth test. While sequential read bandwidth was 110MB/s, the scores for sequential and random read and write bandwidth were under 70MB/s, which is disappointing.
The back of AIO isn’t easy to open up. You’ll first have to remove the stand, which is held in place by two screws, and then the back cover slides out of the way. After that, you can access the hard drive and the RAM module, but in order to get to the motherboard, you’ll have to take off another aluminium shroud. Here, we have a free M.2 PCIe slot, which can be used for an optional SSD. Since we had a 32GB Intel Optane Memory module in our lab, we popped it in to see how much of a difference it would make, without having to reinstall Windows. Using Intel’s Rapid Storage Technology (IRST) app, we were able to set up an Optane Memory profile. Windows was noticeably more responsive and boot times were bit quicker too, which is a good improvement. Dell also confirmed to Gadgets 360 that opening the back panel will not void the warranty.
Speed performance
We tested the HDMI input using a laptop, and were able to extend its desktop onto the AIO’s screen. The button for switching video inputs is located on the bottom of the chin, and it took us a while to find. However, just like Dell’s Ryzen-based AIO that we reviewed last year, the PC needs to be booted up and running in order for you to use the display as a secondary screen.
Despite the laggy Windows experience, the CPU and GPU performance was actually decent when measured in benchmarks. In synthetic tests like Cinebench R15, we got single and multi-core CPU scores of 132 and 630 points respectively, and 82.7fps in the OpenGL test. PCMark 10 kept failing for some reason, so we couldn’t run it. In 3DMark Fire Strike, we got a score of 5,506 points. File compression and video encoding were handled well too, with short completion times.
The GeForce GTX 1050 GPU is quite capable of running current-day games at decent framerates, provided you dial down some of the graphics quality settings. Far Cry 5 uses the very scalable Dunia game engine, and we managed to average about 32fps in the benchmark with the Ultra preset. With actual gameplay, we averaged about the same, but there was a bit of stutter and intermittent momentary freezes. In Metro: Last Light Redux, we averaged about 44fps with the Medium preset, and about 33fps with the settings cranked to High. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided also gave us pretty playable framerates averaging 30fps with the High preset. The resolution was kept at 1080p for all our gaming tests. The exhaust fan also manages to stay quiet, when the system is stressed which is very good.
Despite the laggy Windows experience, the CPU and GPU performance was actually decent when measured in benchmarks. In synthetic tests like Cinebench R15, we got single and multi-core CPU scores of 132 and 630 points respectively, and 82.7fps in the OpenGL test. PCMark 10 kept failing for some reason, so we couldn’t run it. In 3DMark Fire Strike, we got a score of 5,506 points. File compression and video encoding were handled well too, with short completion times.
The GeForce GTX 1050 GPU is quite capable of running current-day games at decent framerates, provided you dial down some of the graphics quality settings. Far Cry 5 uses the very scalable Dunia game engine, and we managed to average about 32fps in the benchmark with the Ultra preset. With actual gameplay, we averaged about the same, but there was a bit of stutter and intermittent momentary freezes. In Metro: Last Light Redux, we averaged about 44fps with the Medium preset, and about 33fps with the settings cranked to High. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided also gave us pretty playable framerates averaging 30fps with the High preset. The resolution was kept at 1080p for all our gaming tests. The exhaust fan also manages to stay quiet, when the system is stressed which is very good.
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