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www.tzero.co.uk or some years, AMD’s for our review. Although
processors have been a the V25R-RA760G2 uses
f pale shadow of Intel’s, with Armari’s miniscule V25
nothing worth considering for chassis, there is room for
the workstation market since up to three more 2.5-inch
FeAtuRes the glory days of Opteron. But SATA drives, so storage
that has all changed with the can be added if required.
introduction of Ryzen 7, and When it comes to
3.6Ghz AMD ryzen 1800X our first glimpse of this capable performance, the Maxon
new CPU is installed in Armari’s Cinebench R15 CPU
32GB 2,400Mhz DDr4 tiny V25 workstation chassis. rendering test is the most
sDrAM The Armari V25R-RA760G2 impressive result. The
includes the current top Ryzen score of 1,622 is around
AMD radeon pro Duo 7, the 1800X. This sports eight 60 per cent higher than
graphics with 32GB GDDr5 physical and 16 virtual cores, a similarly-priced Intel
but costs about half as much as processor, which would
512GB samsung pM961 Intel’s eight-core equivalents. only be quad core. This
M.2 NVMe solid state disk It also runs at 3.6GHz, with a score is only 29 per cent
4GHz turbo mode. These are slower than Intel’s ten-
Warranty: three years faster than Intel’s Broadwell-E core Core i7, for less
parts and labour, first eight- and ten-core options, than half the price.
year collect and return although the latter have plenty Where thread-intensive
of extra room for frequency tasks are concerned, this CPU
improvement. Armari has makes enormous sense. ProRender plugins for various
partnered the 1800X with a The Radeon Pro Duo isn’t industry packages, including
healthy 32GB of 2,400MHz quite so impressive compared 3ds Max, Maya and Blender.
AMD RADeon DDR4 SDRAM. to its Nvidia competitors as With the Blender plugin, a
PRo Duo The AMD resurgence the Ryzen 7 is compared to scene that took a couple of
doesn’t stop with the Intel CPUs, however. The days on the CPU alone took
processor, either. Graphics Maxon Cinebench OpenGL 20 minutes 21 seconds with
the radeon pro Duo is an comes in the form of the AMD score of 113.82 is good, but the GPU when harnessed via
impressive new product. Radeon Pro Duo. This is the it’s still behind the likes of Radeon ProRender.
and it is essentially two new version of this card that the Quadro P4000. Similarly, The Armari V25R-RA760G2
radeon pro WX7100 Gpus doesn’t require custom water with SPECviewperf 12.1, the really shows what AMD’s new
on one card, but each cooling and isn’t actually quite 3dsmax-05 result of 96.76 is Ryzen 7 can deliver. It is behind
one of these has 16GB of as powerful as the original merely decent, with 106.94 the Armari V25 we reviewed
GDDr5 memory offering one, but it has four times the in catia-04, 74.9 in maya-04, in our small form factor group
224GB/sec bandwidth. memory and is now much less and 112.31 in sw-03. This is a test for sheer performance, but
each Gpu has 2,304 Watt-hungry. capable system for modelling, it’s also about half the price of
stream processors, too, Storage comes in the but not outstanding. that configuration. As a budget
for a whopping total of form of a 512GB M.2 NVMe Where the Radeon Pro Duo workstation that isn’t much of a
4,608. But the new radeon PCI-Express solid state disk. comes into its own is with a compromise, this is a stunning
pro Duo costs scarcely The shipping version of renderer that can harness dual system for its cost and bodes
more than the Nvidia this workstation will use the GPUs via OpenCL. The overall well for the future of AMD’s
Quadro p4000. Samsung PM961, which is system score in Luxmark 3.1 resurgent processor offerings.
one of the fastest in its class, is 6,842 – the fastest we’ve
although this wasn’t available seen. AMD offers free Radeon VerDict

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