The Dell Alienware Area-51 follows an ATX form factor and measures 569 mm in height, 231.6 mm in width, and 610.5 mm in depth, resulting in a total volume of roughly 80,451.93 cm³. Storage is handled by a 1TB NVMe SSD, offering both solid capacity and fast sequential access through the NVMe interface.
The graphics card carries 16GB of GDDR7 VRAM on a 256-bit memory bus, with an effective memory speed of 30,000 MHz and a maximum memory bandwidth of 960 GB/s. The GPU runs at a base clock of 2,300 MHz and boosts up to 2,620 MHz, delivering 56.34 TFLOPS of floating-point performance alongside a texture rate of 880 GTexels/s and a pixel rate of 293.4 GPixel/s. Its 10,752 shading units, 336 texture mapping units, and 112 render output units are fabricated on a 5 nm process, with the die housing 45,600 million transistors. The card connects via PCIe 5 and supports up to four displays simultaneously through its multi-display technology. Ray tracing, DLSS, DirectX 12 Ultimate, OpenGL 4.6, OpenCL 3, stereoscopic 3D, and Double Precision Floating Point are all supported, while LHR and RGB lighting are not present.
The processor runs across 20 threads with a core configuration of 8 cores at 2.4 GHz and 12 cores at 1.8 GHz, and it can reach a turbo clock speed of 5.3 GHz via Turbo Boost version 2. It carries 36 MB of L2 cache and 30 MB of L3 cache, and operates with a clock multiplier of 24. The CPU includes integrated graphics, supports 64-bit processing, and has a maximum rated temperature of 105 °C, though it does not feature an unlocked multiplier.
In PassMark testing, the system scores 48,917 in the multi-threaded benchmark and 4,633 in the single-threaded result. Cinebench R20 results follow a similar pattern, with a single-core score of 847 and a multi-core result of 10,181.
The system is equipped with 32GB of DDR5 RAM running at a speed of 6,400 MHz, providing a solid foundation for memory-intensive workloads and multitasking.
Wireless connectivity covers Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) along with Wi-Fi 6E, 6, 5, and 4, complemented by Bluetooth 5.4. On the wired side, there is one RJ45 port for Ethernet. The USB layout includes five USB 2.0 ports, three USB 3.2 Gen 1 USB-A ports, four USB 3.2 Gen 2 USB-C ports, and two USB 4 40Gbps ports, while USB 3.2 Gen 2 USB-A, Gen 2x2, Gen 1 USB-C, USB 4 20Gbps, and Thunderbolt 3 ports are absent. Two Thunderbolt 4 ports are present. Display outputs consist of three DisplayPort connections and one HDMI 2.1 port, with no DVI or VGA connectors available. Audio connectivity includes both a 3.5 mm headset jack and an S/PDIF output.
This desktop system is built on the Z890 chipset with an LGA 1851 CPU socket and a 360W Thermal Design Power (TDP), with the processor employing big.LITTLE technology and supporting instruction sets including MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2, as well as the NX bit. The GPU is based on the Blackwell architecture and works alongside Intel Resizable BAR, while XeSS (XMX) is not supported. Memory configuration supports up to 192GB across two channels at a maximum speed of 6,400 MHz, and ECC memory is supported. The system includes an HDMI output but has no mini DisplayPort outputs and no USB-C ports, and it does not use air-water cooling.
