This review first appeared in issue 348 ofPC Pro.
PCSpecialist takes a unique approach in this months Labs by supplying its system with consumer-grade graphics.
Its also the only company to provide secondary storage along with a main drive.
There’s space for upgrades, but you won’t need to add to the 192GB of RAM
This is a 13th generationIntelCore i9-13900K with 24 cores.
But it has gone further than this much further.
This is supplied as four 48GB modules, although this isnt a quad-channel system.
The Onyx Pro packs plenty of power for many (but not all) GPU rendering tasks
Now we get to the elephant in the room: the consumer-grade graphics.
The trusty Fractal Design Black Solidchassisis supplied to house all these components.
The SSD is aSamsung990 Pro running at PCI Express 4 speeds.
The hard disk is a 4TBSeagateIronWolf Pro 7,200rpm mechanical hard disk, offering 260MB/sec reading and 257MB/sec writing.
The Intel Core i9 CPU is very much in its element with everyday tasks.
But then theres that GPU.
CUDA-accelerated Blender rendering took an incredible 64 seconds, and the LuxMark 3.1 score of 31,713 is staggering.
This is also a supreme accelerator for some but not all content-creation viewsets.
Running SPECviewperf 2020 3.1, the GeForce 4090 managed 316 in 3dsmax-07 and 792 in maya-06.
This is a brilliant card for3D animation.
However, while catia-06 saw 165 and solidworks-07 a jaw-dropping 732, snx-04 could only reach 54.57.
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