The Dell 16 Plus 2-in-1 is classified as a productivity laptop with a physical footprint of 356 mm wide, 250 mm deep, and 16 mm thick, giving it a relatively slim profile for its class. It weighs 2050 g and occupies a volume of 1424 cm³. The machine includes a backlit keyboard but does not use a fanless design, meaning it relies on active cooling. It is neither weather-sealed nor built to a rugged standard.
The display is a 16″ Mini-LED touch screen with a resolution of 2560 x 1600 px, resulting in a pixel density of 188 ppi. It runs at a 90Hz refresh rate, providing reasonably smooth rendering for everyday tasks. The panel supports up to three connected displays simultaneously and does not include an anti-reflection coating.
The system is equipped with 32GB of DDR5 RAM running at 8533 MHz, which also represents the maximum supported memory capacity. Storage comes in the form of a 1024GB NVMe SSD using PCIe 5 and flash storage technology. The CPU runs at 4 x 2.2 & 4 x 2.2 GHz across 8 threads, with multithreading enabled and a turbo clock speed reaching 4.8GHz. Built on a 3 nm semiconductor process, the processor supports 64-bit operation. On the graphics side, the GPU runs at a base clock of 600 MHz with a turbo frequency of 1950 MHz and supports DirectX 12 Ultimate, though XeSS (XMX) is not available.
In PassMark testing, the system achieves an overall score of 19,096, while its single-core result stands at 4,038, reflecting the processor's per-core throughput capacity.
The port selection includes one Thunderbolt 4 port, one USB 4 40Gbps port, one USB 3.2 Gen 2 USB-C port, and one USB 3.2 Gen 1 USB-A port; there are no USB 2.0, DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, or RJ45 ports. Video output is handled by a single HDMI 2.1 port, while VGA is not available and there is no external memory card slot. Wireless connectivity covers Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) along with backward-compatible support for Wi-Fi 6E, Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 5, and Wi-Fi 4. AirPlay is also supported.
The laptop houses a 64 Wh battery and includes sleep-and-charge USB ports, allowing connected devices to be charged even when the machine is powered off. It does not use a MagSafe power adapter.
Audio is handled by stereo speakers and a 3.5 mm headset jack, while two built-in microphones handle voice input; there is no S/PDIF output, Dolby Atmos support, or voice command functionality. The front camera records video at 1080p at 30 fps but the machine does not include a fingerprint scanner, 3D facial recognition, or a stylus in the box. Sensor coverage is minimal, with no gyroscope, accelerometer, GPS, or compass present. On the graphics feature side, ray tracing and DLSS are not supported, and there is no optical disc drive.
The laptop CPU is a laptop-class processor with a clock multiplier of 22, a TDP of 17W, and a maximum operating temperature of 100 °C. It uses big.LITTLE technology, supports NX bit, and carries a 12 MB L3 cache, though the multiplier is locked. Supported instruction sets include MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2. Graphics are handled by the integrated Arc Graphics 140V, which features 8 execution units and 1024 shading units, with OpenCL 3 and OpenGL 4.6 support. Memory runs across two channels at a maximum speed of 8533 MHz, delivering up to 136 GB/s of bandwidth, though ECC memory is not supported. The overclocked PassMark result reaches 20,403.
