PNY has done almost everything right with the PREVAILPRO P4000 Max-Q. The mobile Quadro P4000 in the Max-Q design harmonizes perfectly with the Intel Core i7-7700HQ. As architecture, Kaby Lake is no longer the very last cry and a generation back, but you don't really notice anything about it. After all, Clevo, the ODM for this workstation notebook, relies on a sophisticated platform that can be used as a P955/957 for so many customers as well.
With the exception of the Quadro graphics card and the amount of memory installed, everything is consumer series technology that has proven itself millions of times. ECC-RAM can certainly be dispensed with in such a constellation and a xeon as a drive for a mobile Quadro is not really necessary. Suppliers such as Fujitsu or Lenovo do not do that any other way. A stronger graphics solution would hardly bring anything here and so the CPU and GPU harmonize quite nicely with each other.
Whether you absolutely need an Ultra-HD display for the road, let's face it. Many professional applications, such as AutoCAD, Adobes CC, Solidworks or Creo rely on their own GUI, which unfortunately scales along and is therefore very difficult to recognize and operate. For example, if you trying to install Solidworks in 2015 will probably get the hate. Scaling of 300% for font size does not help if the GUI does not play along and still relies on fixed bitmap elements.
Conclusion
It actually fits together quite well, but you really have to question for what application you really need such a notebook. A traveller in terms of construction and presentation will always be on the hunt for the next socket and as the primary workplace notebook with the interesting takeaway option it is acoustically quite dominant. You will always have to speak a little louder and should also have strong nerves.
On the other hand, it is reassuring how the producer has mastered the cooling. This platform can be used to install even more potent graphics solutions that also win the daily struggle for survival against their own waste heat. The cooling of the CPU is only a side-war scene. Even if the turbo clock of the CPU and the maximum possible boost clock of the GPU cannot be achieved in real use – it never throttelt anything and fast enough (at least for its ratios) the PREVAILPRO P4000 with the Max-Q graphics is also.
For an award, the unique selling points are missing a little, but it does exactly what you can expect from it if you count to the appropriate user group. And that alone makes it quite worth buying, even if we don't award an extra award. If it fits into the concept financially at all, because unfortunately the story is not cheap. In Germany, PNY offers the devices through their partners from approx. 3200 Euro with a Quadro P3000 and from approx. 4500 Euro with a Quadro P4000. The price of course always varies with increasing or falling equipment. Ok, company pays. Anyway, mostly.
- 1 - Einführung, technische Daten und Details
- 2 - Tear Down, Komponenten und Kühlsystem
- 3 - Benchmarks: 2D und CPU-lastige Szenarien (Compute Rendering)
- 4 - Benchmarks: Komplexe Workloads und Suiten
- 5 - Benchmarks: Grafik-lastige 3D-Szenarien (OpenGL)
- 6 - Leistungsaufnahme, Laufzeit und Geräuschentwicklung
- 7 - Temperaturen, Takt und Infrarotmessung
- 8 - Zusammenfassung und Fazit
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