Dell Precision 7920 Tower high-performance NVIDIA Quadro graphics Workstation

Dell Precision 7920 Tower high-performance NVIDIA Quadro graphics Workstation The system might look comparable to the previous generation but make no mistake; the Dell Precision 7920 Workstation tower has been redesigned from the ground up. It highlights an advanced cooling and thermal design with storage devices and power on one side of the chassis, and motherboard, memory, CPUs, and PCIe cards on the other side. Fans throughout the system manage it all cool. One of the extra attractive features on the new Precision workstations are upfront, hot-swap drive trays that sustain M.2 and U.2 drives for vastly improved storage options. As always, Dell’s Precision workstations maintain several ISV certified applications for trouble-free performance. Intel Xeon Scalable processors produce more performance and help for upto 3TB of memory and room for upto 10 3.5-inch or 2.5-inch storage devices—not including PCIe-card storage devices.

The Dell Precision 7920 showed us some theatrical results for a desktop workstation. It is hugely customizable, with arrangements ranging in cost, which will allow organizations to create a system that fine suits their wants and budget. Options include many various professional graphics card options ranging from entry-level cards like the Radeon Pro WX 2100 and NVIDIA Quadro P1000 to valuable, high-end ones like the Radeon Pro WX9100 and the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000. For memory, choices range from 16GB all the way upto a whopping 3TB of RAM. At the same time, processors combine the latest Intel Xeon Scalable family with upto 28 cores per processor or a sum of 56 cores when customized with Dual processors.

Storage benefits are plentiful as well. It is an extremely scalable workstation.

The configuration of the Dell Precision 7920 was different regarding its processors, being dual Intel Platinum 8260 CPUs. These are almost top of class server-grade CPUs, with 24 cores each (48 cores blended). In a server or a extremely multi-threaded application setting, those perform very well, but for some more traditional workloads, they can start to force some corner cases.t This was the case with some of our benchmarks that have never designed for such high core count CPUs. With that in mind, to assess its performance, we put the 7920 through two distinct graphics-intensive workstation benchmarks (the SPECviewperf and SPECworkstation) and related it to the Dell Precision 7740 mobile workstation, which we studied last year. Glancing at the graphics-intensive SPECviewperf test, the 7920 unsurprisingly confirmed outstanding performance in all divisions and shined in Maya-05(335.9), Snx-03 (501.21), , 3dsmax06(261.27) and Catia-05 (312.07). In our SPECwpc benchmark (which measures CPU, graphics, I/O, and memory bandwidth performance), the 7920 didn’t fare comparatively, but was more similar to the way multi-threading is managed with the benchmark. While it demonstrated its capability to perform under accelerated workloads, it didn’t hit the high numbers one might expect, but this was a higher trade-off of the CPUs selected, not the platform.