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NVIDIA RTX A5000 Special Review – Water-cooled and overclocked workstation beast

Disclaimer: The following article is machine translated from the original German, and has not been edited or checked for errors. Thank you for understanding!

Test system and evaluation software

The benchmark system relies on PCIe 4.0, the matching X570 motherboard in the form of the MSI MEG X570 Godlike and a selected Ryzen 9 5900X that was overclocked water-cooled (PBO + 500 MHz). Add to that the matching DDR4 4000 RAM 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 games, which adds to 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 OC
MSI MEG X570 Godlike
2x 16 GB Corsair DDR4 4000 Vengeance RGB Pro
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)
Alphacool Sub Zero
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)
Up to 10 channels (max. 100 values per second)
Special riser card with shunts for the PCIe x16 Slot (PEG)

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)

 

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Megaone

Urgestein

1,746 Kommentare 1,645 Likes

Ich habe mal eine Frage an die Runde. Sie ist vielleicht ein wenig Infantil, aber dennoch.

Macht es Sinn auf die Backplate passive Kühlkörper zu kleben. Hat das schon mal einer versucht ?

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ApolloX

Urgestein

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Igor, ich fänds spannend, wenn du zu den Workstation-Karten Benchmarks auch eine Gaming-Karte dazunimmst, seis die 6800 z.B. Einfach um den Vergleich zu haben.

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BloodReaver

Mitglied

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Bei einer 3090 - bringt es dir kühlere Speichertemps.
Sieht aber scheisse aus.

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Megaone

Urgestein

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Danke für die Antwort. Vielleicht finde ich ja ein paar hübsche Kühler. (y)

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DaniloTT

Neuling

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Umgekehrte Frage, wäre es möglich die Workstation-Karten jeweils auch in einem Spiel zu benchmarken nur damit man das grob einordnen kann?

Ich will in naher Zukunft einen Dan A4 mit RTX A5000 basteln und es würde mich interessieren wie die sich zu den Consumer-Karten einordnet falls ich darauf mal spielen würde. Oder machen die Quadro-Treiber da gar nicht mit?

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Igor Wallossek

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Ich habe eigentlich mit Chernobylite immer ein Spiel mit drin ;)

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Danke für die Spende



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Igor Wallossek

Editor-in-chief and name-giver of igor'sLAB as the content successor of Tom's Hardware Germany, whose license was returned in June 2019 in order to better meet the qualitative demands of web content and challenges of new media such as YouTube with its own channel.

Computer nerd since 1983, audio freak since 1979 and pretty much open to anything with a plug or battery for over 50 years.

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