we've all done it you go on your favorite store or PC part picker select
all the most expensive items in the drop downs then you gaze at it longingly for
a bit wipe the drool off your desk and go back to grinding Fletching levels in
RuneScape because fantasy time is officially over well not for the
engineers at HP they took it one step
further and they actually built the dream machine and thanks to their
co-sponsorship of this video with Intel we get to see what happens when you
actually press bye well the first thing
that happens is your credit card spontaneously combusts because each of
the four gpus in this thing costs as much as a top of the line gaming PC
alone then the next thing that happens is you
get to go faster than you've ever gone before we're gonna crack it open in a
little bit but we're gonna start by absolutely annihilating every rendering
Benchmark we have ever done starting of course with the one and only a blender
don't blink because you might miss this
start the render
focus on
and it's done that was a sub nine second classroom
render and that was without the files cached
let's do it again four
two seconds
we're gonna start measuring in frames per second not seconds per frame
that's not even long enough for me to see the usage show up on the gpus
is it not even kicking all of these on we need to do a longer render
oh hold on this one's running on CPU I think that's
still really impressive this is it'll do
Gooseberry in under three minutes on this CPU
wow that's what 56 cores will do for you
all that'll cost you is a measly ah yes
350 watts of CPU power consumption
this is my first Hands-On with Intel Xeon scalable 3400 series chips and I
gotta say I'm liking what I see so far I was pretty thrown off when I found out
that the 56 core has a base clock of just 1.9 gigahertz but the all core
boost in this HP machine is over 2.4
which means she fast they are all working okay that
explains why it is so flipping fast but
see this there's a delay in the time that it takes for the gpus to actually
start working and fans kick in
and it's done
I realize you might not have a lot of context for these scores we're getting
so do yourself a favor go to the blender website download them and run them on
your computer that should give you some idea how absolutely wild this is all
right blender man let's go oh my God this one's done already
15 seconds we barely even managed to
load the gpus for those of you who are not that familiar with blender what
we're doing is we're rendering photorealistic images here and the
problem is that these are industry standard benchmarks that everyone knows
and this machine is running them so fast that it doesn't even really get a chance
to start working it just spools up the assets rips through the render and then
it's immediately over there's more overhead here than actual work being
done of course you might think a few seconds here or there on your output is
not going to make that big of a difference I mean you got to run and get coffee or use the bathroom once in a
while anyway but the big difference here is that while you are working on a scene
or working on a Model you can just
move it around and see it at basically full quality in just a few seconds
look at it go is that incredible or what okay let's do
uh RTX oh here they all go
man just keeping these gpus fed is quite
the task for our poor CPU here once again it's only reporting usage for
gpu2 but once again I am pretty sure
that all the gpus are loaded here yes they are
hot damn this thing is drawing over 1200
watts on the GPU's alone
this thing does 1500 watts of power
consumption I was barely breaking a sweat
like it's making noise don't get me wrong
but not a lot but again to give you guys
some idea how impressive this is bone stock with only four gpus we are still
in the top 50 here now the key night among you are probably thinking I'm
sorry 240 90s is just as fast as your
four A6 thousands what's up with that RTX 4090s or gaming cards are designed
to run as fast as possible driver certification and other features be
damned whereas RTX a series cards
workstation cards are all about stability and they come with a lot more
vram so that you can load them up with much larger scenes much larger workloads
and they can operate on the whole thing while it's sitting in RAM
which isn't to say that they can't game play some Halo infinite on a how much is
this thing worth like 40 Grand we apparently don't even know the price
well the gpus are five grand each so
more than 20. interesting even though there's no Envy
link connectors we can totally select all four of them
okay we'll do that later though would you believe this machine is in the same
family as the 69 gaming PC so 10 years
from now no for real think about it when these are being offloaded by the ball or
businesses architectural firms or resource exploration companies when they
are offloading these things this could be your gaming PC you would
take out three of the gpus or you would you know pick up a cheap second-hand GPU
to throw into it for gaming because this is not the best for gaming
in summary SLI hasn't been worked on in a long time by game developers or NVIDIA
this isn't really a surprise but
this was working yeah oh it actually like made a difference
with the SLI like oh it improved things seriously yeah like were you getting
like hundreds of FPS or like yeah yeah there was there was a noticeable
difference in FPS well I don't know what to tell you because she is sure as shoot
broken now enough about gaming though look at these spec view perf results
this machine is at or near the top of
the charts in every possible category CPU power GPU power this thing is God at
all let's take a closer look at what's going on inside oh no first outside
almost all mesh front two five and a
quarter inch Bays along with a Slimline Optical these are deceptive they are not
for your CD Rider okay these are actually so you can put up to eight hot
swappable NVMe drives in here so like with the highest cap NVMe drives these
days that would be like 250 terabytes of NVMe storage dual front usbc's dual
front usba's headphone microphone combo Jack and SD card reader let's turn this
baby around and have a look from the oh actually the back soon but
oh that makes sense nope you are not
allowed to open it up while it's on I mean if I had the kind of optimized
airflow path that this thing has I probably wouldn't like that either we
will finish up with the outside then we will open it up single 120 millimeter
fan for exhaust my goodness this is hot
she's hot wow then we've got our three
gpus down here our rear motherboard eye
over here so a bunch more USB 3 10 gig
Ethernet absolutely love it is that a Management Port
that's awesome you could totally remotely like upgrade the BIOS or
whatever that's great for your it Department we've got dual power inputs
they can either operate in aggregate mode to a total of 2250 Watts or in
redundant mode where they will do up to 1450. so I guess we need aggregate mode
for this configuration with the four a6000s this thing's freaking ridiculous
so 16 monitors anyone I have never seen
anything like this before look at the freaking size of this power supply it
uses a blower cooler air intakes on both
sides there you go then exhaust out the back wow
that's enough I want to see
I'm sorry this is cool got a nice little map of
where everything is inside including the order in which you need to populate your
dim slots seems to be done yelling at me now all
we need to do is figure out how oh nice little pad to keep the GPU in place
nice little shroud to make sure that the
GPU is drawing air from the right place
where that place is not entirely clear
but that's okay we'll figure that out later
you can tell HP had so much PCIe connectivity they didn't know what to do
with it all the CPU supports up to 112
PCIe Gen 5 lanes and we're using 32 of
them for these top two slots right here these two down here running at Gen 4 by
16 and then the motherboard is just littered in more PCIe connectivity we've
got two by four NVMe connectors up here
so presumably those are to handle the optional hotspot Bays that can hello
somehow go over there and then we've got another one over here labeled Network
that's either going to be for well some kind of network interface you add at the
back though I don't see where it goes or it could be for the optional Thunderbolt
add-in card oh you know what I bet the network one goes here
whoa personality slot I've met some
people who could use one of those okay personality slot I have no idea what's
in these each of them is PCIe Gen 4x8 so
there's another 16 Lanes but what they
do is a mystery okay hold on so it looks like it's kind
of a two-handed operation whoa
shut up dual
loaded onto these carrier boards looks
like they can do up to 110 millimeter m.2 drives but it's pre-loaded with your
standard 80 millimeter drives there's a couple one terabyte m.2s don't mind if I
do that one's a little bent um whoops
it's not because of me do I do that oh I did that no nevermind it's flat
okay okay well I can't say that I'm the biggest fan in general of proprietary
carrier boards from a technician standpoint if Jeanette in accounting or
Bob from Shipping needs a new drive or they you know need more storage or
whatever else being in and out like that instead of
having to rip out a bunch of gpus and get at m.2s that are under it
yeah I'm liking it and cooling wise what are
we looking at here got a 92 millimeter intake here that's blowing across our
top GPU which has this back mounted oh and front mounted intake that cools
these then we've got another 120
no that's a 92 and then we've got what
appears to be another 120 down here in the bottom to take care of our CPU our
other gpus and then is this for okay
what are you doing what is with all these shrouds
good gravy
well that tall tower cooler explains how we were able to do a sustained 250 Watts
on the CPU and then we've got a total of
128 gigs of RAM in here but this CPU
will support up to two terabytes
two more 80 millimeter fans oh these are blowing directly down on
the RAM they're blowing up from the RAM
of trays interesting oh wow the intake
comes in here okay then this grabs it then it goes through
this shroud over to here and then this is grabbing air from over here or
something and it's blowing it out and then this exhaust is taking it away they
do not want any hot air from anything
else making its way into anything in this system
no screws required do I just pull it out
surely there's a oh hello oh yeah
wow completely tool-less GPU removal
and that's secure enough for shipping I guess that's what this rear support
bracket and then these same pads that we saw on the top
are going to do for you keep these babies secure and shipping I mean it got
here in one piece of course now that you've seen all the hardware I'm sure
you guys are wondering well can it go even faster the answer is yes
all we need to do is go into performance options and instead of performance mode
we want rack mode you ready for this
go go go go go go
you can tell there's performance in there so much performance hold on we're still
adding more performance oh wow okay yep
I can see why this is rack mode and not sitting next to your desk in an office
mode let's see if we can beat those scores from last time
the gpus are absolutely pegged at 300
watts now and the CPU sitting at 210.
only a marginal score increase looks like our gpus weren't Limited in any way
by our system fans but what I suspect is
that our CPU is going to be able to Turbo a little bit higher
oh that's a new whoa shut up
375 watts
did we touch 375 before that is
definitely normal that's normal yes okay
no this is working as intended we're getting 2.6 2.7 gigahertz now instead of
2.4 and change all right then power
consumption doesn't change I guess it's just overcoming thermal limitations
because look at this our CPU package isn't going above 55 degrees we touched
a hundred before this difference in clock speed netted us about 4 000 more
points in cinebench meaning the more cooling you can throw at the Xeon 3400
series processors the better off you're going to be
especially if you've got a 56 core one unlike previous Z8 workstations the Z8
Fury G5 only supports a single CPU but
when that CPU is the W9 3495x arguably
the best workstation CPU on the market kind of makes sense
eight channel ddr5 memory support turbo
boosts up to 4.7 gigahertz 56 cores and
the results speak for themselves that's 62 000 points in cinebench R23 Can Dance
all day it's no wonder Apple's only giving you like 800 for a Mac Pro trade in these
days of course we've only scratched the surface of what a machine like this can
do these are used for everything from game design to Ai and data science
research to 3D rendering which of course we've talked about but architectural
design engineering video editing you
name it it can handle it the one exception would be gaming while you
could spend 10 times as much as you did on your gaming PC you really don't have
to because it's not for gaming until 10 years from now thanks again to Intel and
HP for sponsoring this video it was a genuine pleasure to get my hands on the
absolute best of the best dream machine tier PC and we have to send this back
yeah all right well I guess that's all the
playing I get to I'm gonna run this one more time this is like my favorite game
c boxes fill up very fast whoa