- We've all done it.
You go on your favorite store, 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 buy.
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 Blender.
Don't blink 'cause you might miss this.
Start the render
and it's done.
That was a sub nine second classroom render
and that was without the files cashed.
Let's do it again.
Do, do do, do 4.42 seconds.
Are you kidding me?
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.
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 to you is measly.
Ah yes.
350 watts of CPU power consumption.
This is my first hands-on with
Intel Zion Scalable 3,400 series chips.
And I gotta say I am 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.
Alright, 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 gonna make that big of a difference.
I mean you gotta 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 RTX.
Oh, here they all go.
Man, just keeping these GPU's fed
is quite the task for our poor CPU here.
Once again, it's only reporting usage for GPU two.
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 GPUs alone.
This thing does 1500 watts of power consumption
and it's 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 keen eye among you are probably thinking,
"I'm sorry 2 4090s is just as fast
as your four A six 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 V RAM
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.
Whoa. 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 baller businesses
architectural firms or resource exploration companies
when they're 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 a cheap secondhand GPU to
to throw into it for gaming.
'cause this is not the best for gaming.
Woo.
In summary, SLI hasn't been worked on in a long time
by game developers or Nvidia
so this isn't really a surprise, but,
This was working?
- [Tanner] Yeah.
It it actually like made a difference with the SLI.
- Oh. - it improved things.
- Seriously?
- [Tanner] Yeah.
- Like were you getting like hundreds of FPS or like
- [Tanner] Yeah, yeah there was.
There was a noticeable difference in FPS.
- Well I don't know what to tell you 'cause 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 has got at all.
Let's take a closer look at what's going on inside.
Ooh no.
First outside.
Almost all mesh front
two five and a quarter inch bays
along with a slim line optical.
These are deceptive.
They are not for your CD writer.
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 USB-C's, dual front USB-A'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'll 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 IO over here.
So a bunch more USB three, 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 2,250 watts or
in redundant mode where they will do up to 1,450.
So I guess we need aggregate mode
for this configuration with the four a six thousands
as this things freaking ridiculous.
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 exhausts out the back.
Wow.
Let's open this thing up.
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.
It seems to be done yelling at me.
Now all we need to do is figure out how, Ooh
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 five lanes
and we're using 32 of them
for these top two slots right here.
These two down here are running at Gen four
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
hot swap bays that can,
Hello?
Somehow go over there
and then we've got another one over here labeled network.
That's either gonna 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 four by eight.
So there's another 16 lanes, but what they do is a mystery.
Okay, hold on.
So it looks like you, it's kind of a two-handed operation.
Ooh, shut up.
Dual M 0.2s loaded onto these carrier boards.
Looks like they can do up to 110 millimeter M 0.2 drives
but it's preloaded with your standard 80 millimeter drives.
There's a couple one terabyte M 0.2s.
Don't mind if I do.
That one's a little bent.
Oh, whoops.
Is that 'cause of me?
Did I do that?
Oh, I did that.
No, nevermind.
It's flat.
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 0.2s 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 GPU's.
And then is this for, okay, what are you doing?
What is with all these shrouds?
Good gravy.
Oh, that's some 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
Oh the tray's 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 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 we're gonna do
for you keep these babies secure in 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?
And
Go
And
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 CPUs 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 gonna be able to turbo a little bit higher.
Whoa. That's a new, whoa, shut up.
375 watts.
Did we touch 375 before?
- [Tanner] That is definitely normal.
- That's normal?
- [Tanner] Yes.
- Okay. No, this is working as intended.
We're getting 2.6
2.7 gigahertz now instead of 2.4 and change.
Alright 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 CI inch.
Meaning the more cooling you can throw
at the Zion 3,400 series processors
the better off you're going to be.
Especially if you've got a 56 core one.
Unlike previous Z eight workstations
the Z eight Fury G five only supports a single CPU.
But when that CPU is the W 9 34 95 x, arguably
the best workstation CPU on the market kind of makes sense.
Eight channel DDR five memory support turbo boosts
up to 4.7 gigahertz, 56 cores
and the results speak for themselves.
That's 62,000 points in Zion R 23
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
'cause 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?
- [Tanner] Yeah.
- Yeah. Oh, all right.
Well, I guess that's all the playing I get to do.
I'm gonna run this one more time.
This is like my favorite game.
See boxes fill up very fast.
Woo!