Dell Alienware 16 Area-51 (AA16250) with RTX 5090: which AI models can it run?

Estimated from the specifications below. Choose the memory size you have or plan to buy, then read the table for that size.

Specifications

Brand

Dell

Chip

Intel Core Ultra HX

Processor

Intel Core Ultra HX (see Dell page)

Graphics

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU

Memory type

DDR5 up to 6400 MT/s

Memory options

16 GB, 32 GB, 64 GB

Graphics memory

24 GB

Memory bandwidth

896 GB/s

Sources: https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/alienware-16-area-51-gaming-laptop/spd/alienware-area-51-aa16250-gaming-laptop, https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/laptops/50-series/

Dell page lists 16GB, 32GB and 64GB memory options and RTX 5060 to 5090 GPU options. GPU bandwidth from NVIDIA's RTX 50 laptop page.

With 16 GB of memory

About 24 GB of it can hold a model.

Models marked "thinks first" can write out their reasoning before they answer, so a job takes longer than the speed alone suggests.

With 32 GB of memory

About 24 GB of it can hold a model.

Models marked "thinks first" can write out their reasoning before they answer, so a job takes longer than the speed alone suggests.

With 64 GB of memory

About 24 GB of it can hold a model.

Models marked "thinks first" can write out their reasoning before they answer, so a job takes longer than the speed alone suggests.

Reported by others

Other people ran the standard llama-bench test on this chip and published the results. They are not Hardwarerig scores. The test uses a small 7-billion-parameter model, so larger models will be slower than these figures. All published benchmarks.

Reported by others, not tested by us. Results come from a public community thread; builds and settings differ between submitters.

Published chip scores

Blender Open Data publishes the median render score of its Cycles test for each chip, and PassMark publishes average CPU and 3D scores, both from results people submitted. Higher is faster. These are not Hardwarerig scores. Scores from different tests, and from different Blender versions, are not comparable with each other.

Editing, gaming, CAD and other work

Each app below publishes a minimum and a recommended system requirement. We compare them with this laptop's memory and graphics memory. We do not judge the graphics chip's class, the processor generation or the operating system, because the makers describe those in words: check the source link for the exact card, processor and system they name. Many apps and games run only on Windows or only on macOS. Integrated graphics count as below any requirement for a dedicated card. Not known means the maker does not state this laptop's graphics memory.

Labels follow the makers' published lists. All use cases.

Speed is the speed of writing an answer, shown as a range. Reading speed is not estimated. How the estimates work · How close they are · Back to the finder