This review first appeared in issue 361 ofPC Pro.
So the Pro will support a greater number of fast peripherals, such as networking and GPUs.
Unless you need the memory and peripheral bandwidth, the non-Pro is much cheaper and therefore more cost-effective.
The Armari gave us some of the highest test results we’ve ever seen
This will be enough for now, although several manufacturers this month have provided a lot more.
The Asus Pro WS TRX50 Sage WiFi motherboard supports up to 1TB of memory.
Instead of the range-topping AMD Radeon Pro W7900, the GPU is the W7800 that sits one rung below.
Armari’s M60G4 case provides custom water cooling
Instead, there are two 2TB Crucial T700 M.2 NVMe devices operating at PCI Express 5 speeds.
These have been combined using the motherboards built-in array capability into a single 4TB RAID0 equipment.
This configuration delivers a staggering 16,134MB/sec of sustained reading and 22,655MB/sec writing (as measured by CrystalDiskMark 8).
Armari systems come with the latter enabled to obtain the maximum possible performance while remaining entirely reliable and stable.
It dispatched the Blender Gooseberry render in 89 seconds on CPU, way ahead of anything weve seen before.
TheAdobeMedia Encoder OpenCL-enhanced render took only 105 seconds.
The GPU, however, is merely great rather than dominant.
But the W7900 is significantly faster in all areas.
GPU rendering and AI inference is similarly good but beaten by a few competitors.
Overall, though, this is another incredible system from Armari, and a worthy Labs Winner.
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