Posts by Jessie Pickworth
DCS Portable Ultra-Compact Workstation
Hi-Performance Gen5 Computing In An Ultra-Compact Design. Don’t be Fooled Its Ultra-Compact Design – This Portable Powerhouse Packs All the Features & Performance of a Full-Sized, Gen5 Graphic Design Workstation. And with a Host of Options Available, You’re Sure to Get the Level of Performance That’s Right for You:SPECIFICATIONS: Intel Core i5/i9 Series or AMD…
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NVIDIA RTX 6000 ADA GENERATION GPU
Benchmark Test Results
Over the past several months DCS has built a number of workstations with Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada 48GB GPU. Compared to their predecessor, the RTX A6000, the RTX 6000 Ada has approximately double the number of processors and offers impressive performance gains – more cores, faster cores, significantly larger L2 cache and increased bandwidth. However…
Read MoreHPA Tech Retreat 2023
We had an incredible time at this year’s HPA Tech Retreat. It was great to see dozens of old friends and colleagues and meet fellow Industry professionals from all over the country. This year we had our full line of Xenowulf liquid-cooled workstations & servers on display – including an AMD EPYC 9654 96-core Genoa…
Read MoreRalph Lauren: Spring / Summer Fashion Show
The DCS Team was on-site last week at the Huntington Library in San Marino for the Ralph Lauren 2023 Spring/Summer collection fashion show. DCS provided all hardware & technical support for video editing and still-photo retouch. We also built the infrastructure and storage network for the entire project as well as the uplink for social…
Read MoreNvidia NVLink Bridge & GPU Scaling in Unreal Engine
While working on a system build we had some questions arise about the benefit of using Nvidia SLI NVlink and GPU utilization in systems using more than 2x GPU when running Unreal Engine. Fortunately we had a Xenowulf 4x RTX A6000 workstation sitting in the shop so we decided to see for ourselves. Nvidia’s NVLink…
Read MoreApple M1 Ultra SoC GPU Performance
How well does Apple’s new M1 Ultra Silcon Chip perform compared to systems with a dedicated GPU? We thought we’d find out… On the Apple website, we found the following graph & accompanying quote: “For the most graphics-intensive needs, like 3D rendering and complex image processing, M1 Ultra has a 64-core GPU — 8x the…
Read MoreApple Mac Studio M1 Ultra – CPU Benchmark Comparison Test
DCS recently added the new 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra to its rental inventory. The workstation features the new Apple M1 Ultra 20-Core all-in-one SoC (System on Chip). The M1 CPU utilizes 16x ‘hi-performance’ Cores & 4x ‘hi-efficiency’ Cores. Upon arrival we put one on the bench and start testing the M1 CPU performance. Here’s…
Read MoreImprove Your Data I/O Workflow
Still using SAS or SATA Drives to Move Media? Why not improve your Data I/O workflow using PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD technology. Replace your current SSD & HDD drives with our new ARWS Media Transfer System. It will dramatically increase your data transfer speeds – up-to 7GB/sec! The system includes a patented proprietary PCIe 4.0 Interface…
Read MoreNvidia Quadro RTX A6000 In-House Benchmark Test Results
DCS recently acquired several Nvidia Quadro RTX A6000 GPU. With 48GB of VRAM and a hefty price tag of $5K it’s certainly not for everyone. They do however offer a host of significant improvements over the previous Turing architecture and are a great choice for projects involving massive datasets & workloads. We really like the…
Read MoreA SMARTER WAY TO OVERCLOCK PROCESSORS – AMD PRECISION BOOST OVERDRIVE v2
OVERCLOCKING CHALLENGES AT DCS we provide our customers with the highest performing workstations and systems available anywhere. Getting the most out of our AMD processors involves a balancing act of overclocking CPU cores to needed frequency levels, keeping CPU temps within safe limits and using the right air or liquid CPU cooling solutions. In general…
Read MoreBlender, Octane, Redshift & V-Ray Render Test Results
At Dynamic Computer Systems we recently ran several Render tests using four of the most popular Render software apps: Blender, Octane, Redshift & V-Ray. As you may know, Blender and V-Ray offer CPU and GPU render while Octane and Redshift are GPU-based Render apps. For the CPU Render tests we used our line of AMD…
Read MoreCPU Render: Test Results
Last month DCS published the results of extensive in-house CPU & GPU ‘synthetic’ performance benchmark tests. Today we’re releasing the results from the first in a series of CPU & GPU Render tests. These tests will be geared towards providing ‘real-world’ workflow benchmarks. For this round, we focused on CPU Render using Cinebench R23, Corona…
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