Armari Magnetar M16E-AW1200-GPU Workstation Review

The Armari system is built around an Intel Ivy Bridge-EP Xeon E5-2690 v2 processor. This has ten cores, but Armari keeps it under control with a custom water cooling system. Armari isn't stressing the CPU beyond specification, though. The Xeon doesn't support the frequency enhancements of the Core i7, so Turbo Boost mode will be the only thing pushing it above its 3GHz nominal frequency.

For comparison, we pitted the Armari against YOYOTech's M-Cube WS and M-Cube WS2. We also tested the Armari with NVIDIA's Quadro K5000 instead of the AMD FirePro W8100, so the performance of the latter could be put in proper perspective.

Software:
PCMark 8
Cinebench R11.5 64 bit
Cinebench R15
SPECviewperf 11
SPECviewpert 12
CrystalDiskMark
SiSoft Sandra

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