The Dell Alienware Area-51 follows an ATX form factor and houses a 2TB NVMe SSD for fast primary storage. The chassis measures 569 mm in height, 231.6 mm in width, and 610.5 mm in depth, resulting in a total volume of approximately 80,451.93 cm³ — reflecting the substantial physical footprint typical of a full-size desktop tower built to this specification.
The graphics card is built on a 5 nm process and packs 6,144 shading units, 192 texture mapping units, and 80 render output units, backed by 12GB of GDDR7 VRAM running at an effective speed of 28,000 MHz across a 192-bit bus, delivering a maximum memory bandwidth of 672 GB/s. The GPU operates at a base clock of 2,330 MHz and boosts up to 2,510 MHz, producing 30.84 TFLOPS of floating-point performance alongside a texture rate of 481.9 GTexels/s and a pixel rate of 200.8 GPixel/s. It connects via PCIe 5 and supports DirectX 12 Ultimate, OpenGL 4.6, and OpenCL 3, with hardware ray tracing, DLSS, double precision floating point, and stereoscopic 3D all included. Multi-display output extends to up to four screens simultaneously, and the card does not feature LHR or RGB lighting. The die integrates approximately 31,100 million transistors in total.
The processor runs a hybrid configuration of eight cores at 3.9 GHz and twelve cores at 3.3 GHz, totaling 20 threads, and can boost up to 5.5 GHz via Turbo Boost version 2 with a clock multiplier of 39. It carries 36 MB of L2 cache and 30 MB of L3 cache, supports 64-bit processing, and includes integrated graphics. The chip has an unlocked multiplier but does not use simultaneous multithreading, and it is rated for a maximum operating temperature of 105 °C.
In PassMark testing, the system achieves a multi-core score of 58,780 and a single-core result of 4,925, rising to 61,016 when run in an overclocked configuration.
The system is equipped with 32GB of DDR5 RAM running at 6,400 MHz, providing a fast and modern memory foundation for the platform.
Wireless connectivity covers Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) along with backward-compatible Wi-Fi 6E, 6, 5, and 4 standards, complemented by Bluetooth 5.4. Wired networking is handled by a single RJ45 port. The USB layout includes five USB 2.0 ports, three USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports (USB-A), four USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports (USB-C), and two USB 4 40Gbps ports; there are no USB 3.2 Gen 2 (USB-A), Gen 2x2, Gen 1 (USB-C), or USB 4 20Gbps ports. Two Thunderbolt 4 ports are present, while Thunderbolt 3 is absent. Display output is handled by three DisplayPort outputs and one HDMI 2.1 port, with no DVI or VGA connectors. Audio connectivity includes a 3.5 mm headset jack and an S/PDIF out port.
This desktop system is built around an LGA 1851 CPU socket compatible with B860 and Z890 chipsets, with the processor carrying a 250W TDP and employing big.LITTLE hybrid core technology alongside instruction set support for MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2, as well as an NX bit. The GPU is based on the Blackwell architecture and benefits from Intel Resizable BAR, while XeSS (XMX) is not supported. Memory configuration spans two channels, supports ECC, and accommodates up to 192GB of RAM at a maximum speed of 6,400 MHz. An HDMI output is present, and there are no mini DisplayPort outputs; air-water cooling is not included. The system does not provide any USB-C ports in this context.
