This review first appeared in issue 348 ofPC Pro.
PCSpecialist has thrown everything at its 10,000workstation.
Not only does it incorporateAMDs range-topping 64-core Threadripper Pro 5995WX, but it also includes AMDs latest professional graphics.
TheCPUsupports multithreading so offers 128 threads.
The base clock is 2.7GHz with a boost to 4.5GHz.
While theres noDDR5support yet for the Threadripper Pro, the eight-channel memory configuration improves bandwidth.
PCSpecialist opts for the brand new AMD Radeon Pro W7800 for graphics acceleration.
This combines 4,480 RDNA 3 unified shaders with 32GB of GDDR6 frame buffer operating with 576GB/sec bandwidth.
Twostoragedevices are supplied with the Ultra.
The 2TBSamsung990 Pro NVMe M.2 drive operates at PCI-E 4 speeds.
It achieved sustained reading at 7,404MB/sec and writing at 6,818MB/sec.
Its main weakness 231 in image editing, which is a single-core task.
The Cinebench R23 multicore rendering score of 71,519 is phenomenal, although Armari went further with the sameprocessor.
The Blender Gooseberry CPU render time of 134 seconds was also behind Armari.
Similarly, engineering and CAD viewsets were behind.
However, a number of these scores were ahead of theNvidiaRTX A5000 and A6000.
The LuxMark 3.1 score of 12,317 and Blender GPU time of 153 seconds were more mediocre.
Its well worth considering, though, with great all-round abilities and lots of storage for media assets.
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