Drivers used
However, I have to say something about the drivers, because at least at the time of last week’s benchmarks, the 21.Q1 released for the Radeon Pro W6800, the older W5700 was not recognized. I had to test those with the older driver from 2020 Q4 for whatever reason. In the meantime, however, since 29.06.2021 both cards for the new driver 21.Q2 listed on the homepage. Annoying, but unfortunately not an isolated case after a launch, that it takes so long with the release. I tested both Quadro cards with the current production branch driver R 470 (U1) i.e. 2021.6.23, which was just released at the time of testing.
Benchmarks, Test system and evaluation software
The benchmark system relies on PCIe 4.0, matching X570 motherboards in the form of the MSI MEG X570 Godlike and a select Ryzen 9 5900X, which of course was not overclocked in this case. Add to that 32GB of matching DDR4 3600 from Corsair, as well as several fast NVMe SSDs. For direct logging during all games and applications, I use my own measurement station with shunts and riser card, as well as NVIDIA’s PCAT in the applications, which increases the convenience immensely.
The measurement of the detailed power consumption and other, more profound things takes place here in the special laboratory on a redundant and in detail identical test system then double-tracked by means of high-resolution oscillograph technology…
…and the self-created MCU-based measurement setup for motherboards and graphics cards (pictures below), where at the end in the air-conditioned room also the thermographic infrared images are created with a high-resolution industrial camera. The audio measurements are done outside in my Chamber (room within a room).
I have also summarized the individual components of the test system in a table:
| Test System and Equipment |
|
|---|---|
| Hardware: |
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X MSI MEG X570 Godlike 4x 8 GB Corsair DDR4 3600 Dominator 1x 2 TByte Aorus (NVMe System SSD, PCIe Gen. 4) 1x2 TB Corsair MP400 (Data) 1x Seagate FastSSD Portable USB-C Be Quiet! Dark Power Pro 12 1200 Watt |
| Cooling: |
Alphacool Ice Block XPX Pro Alphacool Ice Wolf (modified) Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut |
| Case: |
Raijintek Paean |
| Monitor: | BenQ PD3220U |
| Power Consumption: |
Oscilloscope-based system: Non-contact direct current measurement on PCIe slot (riser card) Non-contact direct current measurement at the external PCIe power supply Direct voltage measurement at the respective connectors and at the power supply unit 2x Rohde & Schwarz HMO 3054, 500 MHz multichannel oscilloscope with memory function 4x Rohde & Schwarz HZO50, current clamp adapter (1 mA to 30 A, 100 KHz, DC) 4x Rohde & Schwarz HZ355, probe (10:1, 500 MHz) 1x Rohde & Schwarz HMC 8012, HiRes digital multimeter with memory function MCU-based shunt measuring (own build, Powenetics software) NVIDIA PCAT and Fr |
| Thermal Imager: |
1x Optris PI640 + 2x Xi400 Thermal Imagers Pix Connect Software Type K Class 1 thermal sensors (up to 4 channels) |
| Acoustics: |
NTI Audio M2211 (with calibration file) Steinberg UR12 (with phantom power for the microphones) Creative X7, Smaart v.7 Own anechoic chamber, 3.5 x 1.8 x 2.2 m (LxTxH) Axial measurements, perpendicular to the centre of the sound source(s), measuring distance 50 cm Noise emission in dBA (slow) as RTA measurement Frequency spectrum as graphic |
| OS: | Windows 10 Pro (all updates, current certified or press drivers) |
- 1 - Introduction and Technical Details
- 2 - Test System and Methods
- 3 - AutoCAD 2021
- 4 - Solidworks 2021 (No FSAA)
- 5 - Solidworks 2021 (FSAA Enabled)
- 6 - Inventor Pro 2021
- 7 - 3ds Max, Catia,Creo, Energy
- 8 - Maya, Medical, Siemens NC, SW 2017
- 9 - DirectX 11, DirectX 12, Vulkan, OpenGL and DXR
- 10 - AI and Compute
- 11 - Rendering
- 12 - Power Consumption in Detail
- 13 - Transients and PSU Recommendation
- 14 - Clock Rate, Temperatures, Fan Speed and Noise
- 15 - Summary and Conclusion
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