Review: Scan 3XS RTX Studio Pro T1128T

by Parm Mann on 4 August 2020, 15:01

Tags: SCAN, NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA), AMD (NYSE:AMD)

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Benchmarks: CPU

Spend too long using ordinary PCs and you forget how ferocious Ryzen Threadripper really is. We're accustomed to grabbing a cup of tea while rendering but with the 64-core, 128-thread AMD chip at the helm the task is complete before you even make it to the kettle. A score of nearly 29,000 in Cinebench R20 is simply staggering.

Yet this is an RTX Studio machine, and as such GPU acceleration is a key selling point. Many high-profile design apps now boast RTX acceleration - including Adobe Premier Pro, Autodesk Arnold, DaVinci Resolve, D5 Render and Unreal Engine, to name but a few - and Blender serves as an excellent benchmark candidate. While it is impressive to see the AMD CPU complete the taxing Cosmos Laundromat render in under four-and-a-half minutes, the same workload can also be completed on the RTX Titan in two minutes and 35 seconds. Even the mightiest CPU can't keep up with GPU acceleration in certain workloads.