Dell 16 Plus DB16250 (2025) 16"

The Dell 16 Plus DB16250 (2025) is classified as a productivity laptop with a physical footprint of 356 mm wide, 250 mm deep, and 16 mm thick, giving it a slim profile for its class. It displaces a total volume of 1,424 cm³ and comes in at 1,870 g, making it a moderately lightweight machine for everyday carry. The keyboard is backlit for use in low-light conditions, and the design incorporates an active cooling system rather than a fanless setup. It does not feature weather sealing or a rugged build, positioning it as a standard-use device intended for typical indoor productivity environments.

The laptop features a 16″ screen with a 2560 x 1600 px resolution, offering a sharp 16:10 aspect ratio layout suited to document and content work. Typical brightness is rated at 300 nits, and the panel includes an anti-reflection coating to reduce glare under ambient lighting. Touch input is not supported. The system can drive up to 3 displays simultaneously, including the built-in panel, providing flexibility for multi-monitor setups.

The system is equipped with 32GB of DDR5 RAM running at 8,533 MHz, which also represents the maximum supported memory capacity. The processor operates at a base clock of 4 x 3.3 GHz across 8 threads, with multithreading enabled, and can reach a turbo clock speed of 5.1 GHz; it is built on a 3 nm semiconductor process and supports 64-bit operation. Storage comes in the form of a 2,048 GB NVMe SSD using flash memory over a PCIe 5 interface, ensuring fast data throughput. On the graphics side, the GPU reaches a turbo frequency of 2,050 MHz and supports DirectX 12 Ultimate and OpenGL, though XeSS (XMX) acceleration is not available.

In PassMark testing, the system achieves an overall multi-thread score of 20,093, reflecting its general processing throughput across parallel workloads. The single-thread result stands at 4,333, indicating the per-core performance available for tasks that rely on sequential execution.

The laptop's 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 VGA outputs. Video output is handled by a single HDMI 2.1 port, while no RJ45 ethernet port is present 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, and AirPlay is also supported.

The laptop is powered by a 64 Wh battery and includes sleep-and-charge USB ports, allowing connected devices to be charged even when the machine is in a low-power state. It does not use a MagSafe power adapter.

The laptop includes stereo speakers with Dolby Atmos support, a 3.5 mm headset jack, and a single built-in microphone for audio input. A front camera is present for video calls, and a fingerprint scanner is available for biometric authentication, though 3D facial recognition is not supported. Voice commands, a stylus, and an S/PDIF output are absent, and the device does not include motion or location sensors such as a gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, or GPS. Ray tracing and DLSS are not supported, and there is no optical disc drive.

The laptop CPU is a mobile-class processor with a clock multiplier of 33, a 30W TDP, and a maximum operating temperature of 100 °C; it employs big.LITTLE technology for workload distribution but does not have an unlocked multiplier. It carries 12 MB of L3 cache, supports the NX bit for hardware-level security, and is compatible with instruction sets including MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2. Graphics are handled by the integrated Arc Graphics 140V with 8 execution units, supporting OpenCL 3 and OpenGL 4.6. Memory runs across 2 channels at a maximum speed of 8,533 MHz, though ECC memory is not supported. An overclocked PassMark result of 21,054 is recorded for this configuration.