The Dell Alienware m16 R2 (2024) is classified as a gaming laptop and carries a weight of 2,610 g, with physical dimensions of 363.9 mm wide, 249.4 mm deep, and 23.5 mm thick, resulting in a total volume of approximately 2,132.78 cm³. It does not use a fanless design, meaning active cooling is present. The keyboard includes backlighting, and the unit comes with a 1-year warranty. Operating temperatures range from 0 °C at the lower end to a maximum of 35 °C.
The laptop features a 16″ screen with a resolution of 2,560 x 1,600 px and a pixel density of 188.7 ppi, paired with a 240Hz refresh rate suited to fast-moving content. Typical brightness is rated at 300 nits, and the panel holds a contrast ratio of 1000:1. An anti-reflection coating is present, while touch input is not supported. The GPU is capable of driving up to 4 external displays simultaneously.
The system is equipped with 16GB of DDR5 RAM running at 5,600 MHz across two memory slots, with a maximum supported capacity of 64GB. The CPU operates at speeds of 6 x 1.4 GHz and 8 x 0.9 GHz with a turbo clock of 4.8 GHz, spreads its workload across 22 threads with multithreading enabled, and is built on a 4 nm semiconductor process. Storage is handled by a 1TB NVMe SSD using PCIe 4.0, with flash storage confirmed and 64-bit support included. On the graphics side, the GPU carries 8GB of GDDR6X VRAM, runs at a base clock of 1,230 MHz boosting to 2,175 MHz, and delivers 20.04 TFLOPS of floating-point performance alongside a texture rate of 313.2 GTexels/s, a pixel rate of 104.4 GPixel/s, and compatibility with DirectX 12 Ultimate; XeSS (XMX) is not supported.
In PassMark testing, the laptop records an overall score of 24,879 and a single-thread score of 3,468, reflecting the CPU's per-core throughput. The GPU-focused PassMark G3D benchmark comes in at 19,574, capturing the graphics subsystem's measured rendering capability.
The laptop offers a well-stocked port selection, including one Thunderbolt 4 port, one USB 4 40Gbps port, two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C ports, and two USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports. Video output is handled by a single HDMI 2.1 port, and a wired network connection is available via one RJ45 jack; VGA output is not present. Wireless connectivity covers Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) along with Wi-Fi 6E, Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 5, and Wi-Fi 4, complemented by Bluetooth 5.4. An external memory slot is included, while AirPlay is not supported.
The laptop includes sleep-and-charge USB ports, allowing connected devices to be charged even when the system is powered off or in sleep mode.
Audio output comes through stereo speakers with a 3.5 mm headset jack available for wired headphones; Dolby Atmos and S/PDIF output are not included. The front-facing camera captures at 2.07MP and is accompanied by two microphones, with 3D facial recognition and voice command support both present — a fingerprint scanner, however, is not. On the graphics feature side, the laptop supports both ray tracing and DLSS, while no stylus is included and there is no optical disc drive.
The CPU is a laptop-type processor mounted in a BGA 2049 socket with a clock multiplier of 38, a maximum operating temperature of 110 °C, a TDP of 115W, and a 24 MB L3 cache; it employs big.LITTLE technology, supports multithreading via the NX bit, and carries instruction sets including MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2, though the multiplier is not unlocked. Integrated graphics are present alongside the discrete GPU, which is based on the Ada Lovelace architecture and identified as the Arc Xe-LPG 128EU with 8 execution units, 4,608 shading units, 144 texture mapping units, 48 ROPs, and a GPU memory speed of 2,000 MHz; the memory interface runs at 128-bit width with an effective speed of 16,000 MHz and a maximum bandwidth of 256 GB/s, and the GPU supports multi-display output, stereoscopic 3D, Double Precision Floating Point, ECC memory, OpenCL 3, and OpenGL 4.6, while LHR is not present. The GPU scores 8,162 in the PassMark DirectCompute test, and the system's overclocked PassMark result stands at 24,880. The processor contains approximately 22,900 million transistors, operates across 2 memory channels with a maximum RAM speed of 7,467 MHz, and the overall PassMark overclocked result matches the standard figure at 24,880.
