PCSpecialist Quantum Goliath R review

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PCSpecialist’s Quantum Goliath R is an outlier successful this group trial of workstations, arsenic 1 of 2 systems supplied pinch consumer-grade alternatively than master graphics. But that doesn’t mean it’s conscionable a gaming PC. Certain types of contented creators – peculiarly crippled developers – for illustration this anyway.

The GPU successful mobility is an incredibly potent Asus TUF GeForce RTX 4090 OC Edition. This sports 16,384 CUDA cores, which is almost arsenic galore arsenic nan Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada Generation and much than immoderate different Nvidia paper here. There’s 24GB of GDDR6X representation pinch 1,008GB/sec of bandwidth, which is besides nan highest successful nan Labs.

PCSpecialist has besides gone for nan champion pinch nan CPU, an Intel Core i9-14900KS. That’s 1 rung up from nan 14900K provided by InterPro. The 14900KS likewise provides 8 P-cores (with multithreading) and 16 E-cores (without) and has nan aforesaid 3.2GHz guidelines timepiece for nan P-cores, pinch 2.4GHz for nan E-cores. However, nan P-cores spell each nan measurement up to 6.2GHz successful Thermal Velocity Boost mode, compared to 6GHz for nan 14900K, and nan E-cores will deed 4.5GHz alternatively of 4.4GHz.

The representation allocation is besides amazingly precocious for a strategy successful this value bracket – 192GB successful total, made up of 4 48GB DDR5 DIMMs moving astatine 5,200MHz. That leaves nary room for upgrades connected nan Asus ProArt Z790-Creator WiFi motherboard, but you won’t request to anyway.

Like PCSpecialist’s much costly introduction this month, nan Quantum Goliath R opts for a accelerated footwear thrust and slower but much capacious information drive. In fact, they’re nan aforesaid drives arsenic nan Zircon Extreme. The 4TB Samsung 990 Pro NVMe M.2 instrumentality for operating system and apps runs astatine PCI Express 4 speeds to present sustained reference of 7,132MB/sec and sustained penning of 6,846MB/sec pinch CrystalDiskMark 8. The larger 10TB information thrust is simply a Seagate IronWolf Pro, aimed astatine business-grade use. This 7,200rpm SATA disk provides reference astatine 268MB/sec and penning astatine 264MB/sec – accelerated for a mechanical disk but pedestrian compared to immoderate SSD.

These components are integrated into a Corsair 5000D Airflow chassis. This is simply a nice-looking lawsuit but comparatively orthodox successful design, pinch a tempered solid side. It’s designed for maximum airflow (hence nan name) and has mounts for up to 4 2.5in SSDs and 2 3.5in drives. PCSpecialist has included a 1,000W Corsair RMx Series PSU, which is reassuring considering really overmuch energy nan graphics paper connected its ain will tie astatine afloat pelt.

The Quantum Goliath R makes bully usage of its Intel Core i9’s performance. The PC Pro media benchmarks people of 841 isn’t acold disconnected that provided by nan 32-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper systems this month, and measurement up of different PCs successful nan £4,500 value category. The image-editing consequence of 306 was 2nd fastest, while 816 successful video encoding was only beaten by nan monster 64-core Armari system. A multitasking people of 1,035 was very adjacent to 32-core systems. With 24 cores and 32 threads, nan Core i9 managed only 2,092 successful Maxon Cinebench 2024 multi-CPU rendering, but that was nan champion successful this value category, though nan Blender Gooseberry render took 318 seconds, notably down Armari’s £4,500 system.

The consumer-grade graphics person strengths and weaknesses. With nan 3D animation workloads successful SPECviewperf 2020 it flies, delivering 308 successful 3dsmax-07 and 893 successful maya-06. However, it’s not truthful awesome for CAD aliases engineering. While 166 successful catia-06 and 162 successful creo-03 are good, and 738 successful solidworks-07 is superb, 54 successful snx-04 is astir 10 times slower than a master card.

The GPU compute tests show nan afloat powerfulness of this accelerator, however, pinch a monolithic 34,082 successful nan Geekbench ML AI conclusion trial and 31,154 pinch LuxMark 3.1 OpenCL. The Blender Gooseberry framework rendered successful conscionable 61 seconds pinch CUDA, which is nan quickest we’ve ever seen.

The PC Specialist Quantum Goliath R is champion avoided pinch this graphics prime if you tally Siemens NX software. But if you’re a crippled developer, SolidWorks CAD imaginative aliases 3D animator, nan performance, immense representation and capacious retention make it highly recommended.

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