Overclockers RENDA PW-E7F Workstation Review

CINEBENCH 15 is a cross-platform testing suite that measures hardware performance and is the de facto standard benchmarking tool for leading companies and trade journals for conducting real-world hardware performance tests. With the new Release 15, systems with up to 256 threads can be tested.

CINEBENCH is available for both Windows and OS X and is used by almost all hardware manufacturers and trade journals for comparing CPUs and graphics cards.

Results in the latest version of Maxon Cinebench show the abilities of the RENDA's CPU and graphics. The PC Specialist system only offers six cores, but these are clocked to 4.4GHz, while the Amari system has ten cores clocked to 3GHz. The RENDA's eight 4.2GHz cores give both systems a serious run for their money. A couple of multi-core Xeons would be an order of magnitude faster again, but this is a great showing for a single-socket workstation.

The Cinebench OpenGL results aren't so all conquering, but they are still very decent, and show how the faster clock and more recent drivers for the AMD FirePro W8100 have considerably improved its performance over the same card in Armari's Magnetar M16E-AW1200, with its 3GHz Xeon.

The NVIDIA Quadro K4200 in the PC Specialist system just beats the FirePro, but only by 4 per cent, which won't be particularly noticeable in real-world usage.

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