Dell G15 sRGB + Nvidia RTX3060, Other Color Space On External Monitor

Peter-Riding wrote on 7/16/2021, 3:15 AM

Hi, I'm looking at replacing my ancient Dell XPS laptop with this Dell G15:

https://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/gaming-and-games/new-dell-g15-gaming-laptop/spd/g-series-15-5510-laptop/cn55514

You'll see is has the i7-10870H, RTX 3060 (not the Ti version), 16GB RAM upgradeable to 32GB, 1TB NVMe SSD, one extra SSD port available, 3x USB3.2 (generation 1 & no Thunderbolt).

It is on offer from Dell at just £1048 including tax.

Looks to me like it could handle Vegas 18 Pro with comfort for anything other than very intense requirement such as Neat Video so at a push it may stand in instead of a desktop. I'm not overly concerned with heating reducing rendering speeds as I work from home and its easy to fit that in any time.

However for maximum compatibility I may want to use color spaces other than sRGB.I would plan to hook up a suitable external monitor for that. My question is since the GPU is an Nvidia RTX 3060 can I assume that I can allocate any color space and not be limited to sRGB? I've asked Dell but not received a reply. (Background: most of my work is stills and although I have used adobeRGB1998, Prophoto etc with high end calibrated monitors in the past, for some years I have used just sRGB)

Thanks.

Comments

ALO wrote on 7/16/2021, 8:55 AM

I would not assume you can control colorspace via hardware in a laptop. That would be fantastic if you could, but sounds too good to be true. Dell might not give accurate information in that regard -- if they do respond.

RogerS wrote on 7/16/2021, 7:17 PM

If you use a calibrated external monitor your laptop can feed it whatever color data it can handle (I've been doing photo work for a decade using laptops and an Adobe RGB gamut display. Currently have an XPS 15).

That is a separate question from working space as you can use any working space you want and if the screen is calibrated will see the closest colors the monitor is capable of.

This doesn't help you in Vegas as it isn't color managed. I would put Vegas on the second display and full screen preview on the sRGB one for an idea of how it will look.