**The Rendering Device: A Look at GPU Performance**

In our previous experiments with the rendering device, we've seen some impressive results from various GPUs. But today, we're going to put one of the most powerful cards on the market to the test. The NVIDIA RTX 3090 is no stranger to high-performance rendering, and we're excited to see how it stacks up against other GPUs.

**Testing the RTX 3090 in Four-Way SLI**

We decided to take a closer look at the RTX 3090's performance in four-way SLI, which is a technique that allows multiple GPUs to work together to provide even more processing power. However, we soon discovered that this configuration is not supported by NVIDIA, and it seems to be a driver issue. Despite this, we were able to get the system running with all four GPUs, and the results were astonishing.

**The Rendering Device: A New High Score**

We spent a day and a half chiller-ing our way through a challenging rendering task, and the result was an incredible score of 12,000. This is significantly higher than what we saw in previous tests, and it's clear that the RTX 3090 is capable of producing impressive results. But what really caught our attention was the power consumption - at around 1700 watts, this is a remarkably efficient system.

**The Cost of Greatness**

While the RTX 3090 is undoubtedly an impressive piece of hardware, its cost is certainly eye-watering. With four GPUs in total, the bill comes out to be around $60,000, not including the cost of the CPUs or other components that make up the system. This is certainly a significant investment, but for those who want the best of the best, it may be worth considering.

**Comino's GPU Upgrade Option**

In an interesting move, Comino has included pre-assembled versions of the RTX 3090 in their systems. These come with everything needed to upgrade your existing workstation, including a quick disconnect system that makes swapping out the card as easy as removing a screw. This is a clever solution for those who want to take advantage of the latest and greatest hardware without having to do it themselves.

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**Conclusion**

The rendering device is an incredible piece of hardware that pushes the limits of what's possible with modern GPUs. While it may come with a hefty price tag, for those who want the best, it's certainly worth considering. And with Comino's pre-assembled upgrade option and Ting Mobile's affordable plans, there's never been a better time to take advantage of this technology.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- This is the second fastest serverwe've ever gotten our hands on.It's for scientific applicationsand machine learningand it might actuallybe better in some waysthan the fastest one,which happens to be thepetabyte of flash project over there.Why? Because this one isfreaking water cooled.It's got six GPUs in it.It comes in two flippingand wooden crates.That's really all I know about itbecause it's been stuck atthe border for over a monthdue to some kind of stupid COVID delay.So, we're gonna open this puppy upand show ya exactlywhat's going on inside.Whoa.- Also it's only four GPUs.- Oh, I thought it was six.- Yeah, sorry.- That's still pretty good.- Yeah.- Pretty good, just like our sponsor,Signal RGB with signal RGByou can control and syncyour favorite RGBdevices all from one app.Best of all, it's free.So, download signal RGB at the linkin the video description.(upbeat music)These are wooden cratessealed up with porks screws.Alex has his way but I thinkI'm gonna go try my way.- No, don't use that.- I can't find a crowbar.- There's no wayhe's getting the crowbarbefore I'm done.- Oh, well that was no fun.(Alex laughing)- What is in here?Why do we have two boxes?- I don't even under...Yeah, I was gonna say,I don't even understandwhy there are two boxes?- Are these are GPUs?- This ain't no ordinaryGPU ladies and gentlemen.- No.- Now there's a big differencebetween the water cooling thatwe as gaming enthusiasts useand what you'll see inworkstation or serveror data center applications.- I think this isall custom by Comino look,look at this back memory cooler.- What boards are these?They have NVLink fingers,so, they must be 3090 class.- I think they're all A6000s.Yeah, I've been trying tofigure out the pricing on this.I don't know yet, it'sall just like, you know,if you have to ask youcan't afford it kinda stuff.- I didn't think gigabyte wasa Quadro board partner though.Check out these quick connects, love it.So your cold comes in here.Presumably does some stuffheats up and comes out here.- It does look likethey're five grand a pop US.That's like MSRP,they're currently goingfor like nine grand.- If we screw up the packaging enoughwe might not be able to ship it back.Oh wow, it really did notmake it through there.Thanks, Jerry rig everything box cutter.You can tell it's serious when it justdoes not look performance at all.512 gigabytes of DDR4 3200,six A6000 GPUs,two Xeon platinum 8368Qs,two SFX-L power supplies.What a reopening?- What the heck is this?- It looks like meat.- Oh.- Oh my God,it's just power cables.Well, that was...- Wait, but how manypower cables do we need?- I'm a little confusedbecause there are multiplepower supplies listedon the bomb.Wait, what? What is it?- Oh, that's not power cables.- Looks like some kinda handle.I think I gave you the light side.Oh wow, that's heavy, yep.- It's designed to be rackmounted, it comes with railsbut I can feel littlenubbins on the bottom,I think they're rubber feet.I guess you can kinda use it however.I mean that would be a big advantageto going liquid cooling likethis with your compute nodeis that you wouldn't haveto put it in a server room.You could actually, ow,have it on your desk andwithout being super disruptive.I mean, yeah, that machine outthere might be more powerfulbut it's obnoxiousto be in the same buildingas let alone room.- Look at this.- Wait, this side's just rad.- I am really confused andyou're about to be confused too.Let the camera see your confusion.Whoop, everything's fine, it's justa very durable LTT store.com water bottle.This particular one belonging to Alex.- Well, but yeah, what?- It's got GPUs in it already.- So what are those- They're GPUs smart guy.- Oh, well, obviously they're GPUs.- It has three power supplies.Shout out Comino fortheir custom IO stickerthat's actually a really smartway of branding your machine.- What would we use this for?- Almost doesn't matter.Okay, well Kyle has that thing upcoming.He's got that raccoon that'slike pooing in his yardand he wants to train likea machine learning modelto recognize itand like shoot it with aairsoft gun or something.Apparently it takes like four daysto do the training onhis like consumer GPU.This you can fit so muchmachine learning in here.What's the front Alex?- I think this is the front.Wait, but is it?- No.- Yeah,yeah, this must be the front.- This has to be the front'cause it's got a thermalsensor in front of the radiator.So, you'd wanna knowyour intake temps, right?Oh wow, are these ever tight?That stripped one could be a problem,we could end up drilling this out Alex.- Oh, I really don't want to do that.- No, it's dead.And it mangled your torque spit.- Oh, great.- One power supply, ah, ah, ah.- Wait, why are you doing that?- I'm powering it up.- But I'm about to drill it.- I mean, that's fine.- What about we don't do thatuntil we know that I did it.- Whoa, here it goes.- I guess it's on now.What?- It just had a littlepanic moment and shut off.- Cooling system standby.- Wait, is it even full of water?- I can see right herethere's a reservoir.The water's right up atthe top. I think it's fine.Should I just drill thisand get the top off?- Yeah.Look at that now we'reboth being productive.Do you wanna get footage of him?Wait, stop Alex.- Too late.- Brandon footage.Don't...Just pretend, pretend to havethe breakthrough moment again.- All right.- Hold both buttons to turn on/off.Cooling system start, fanRPM monitoring on here.It feels like it's intended tobe up like this a little bit.- Yeah, kind of.- Yeah,whoa,lots of bubbles.I mean surely if they picture it like thisand the text is this way, it'sintended to be run this way.(Linus screaming)- There we go.- Good thing I didn't stab that,that would've been pretty bad.Wow.- Holy crap.Look at that back plate.- What are the GPUs that are in here?What was the point ofthose other ones then?These have HDMI ports on them.So, I do not think that these are A6000s.- Are those 3090TIs?- They could be 3090TIsbut I don't understand why they have thesecrazy eight pin connectoradapter doodads here then.Wait,I don't think I've actuallypowered on the system, Alex.- Like I don't haveany lights on the keyboard.- This controller systemup here is trippy.Here's our temp sensor forthe front, hanging off of it.And then you can see the 24pin connector goes into here.Oh crap, is that USB?Yeah, I don't wannawrench that off too hard.And then you can see fan leads, power,presumably there's acooling flow rate monitor.All that appears to be completely custom.Should we take a closer lookhere before we fire it back up?- Yeah.- These guys have come a long waysince the last time we checkedout one of their systems.I recognize this triple powersupply setup from last timethat's super cool.We've got three 140 millimeter fans.So, these are taking advantage of thefull four U height of the chassisand then pushing that air throughwhat looks like a triple120 millimeter radiatorwhich I honestly gotta sayfeels a little optimisticin terms of cooling.We've got dual Xeons and then quad GPUsthat are all supposed to be cooledby this single thick radiator.I love this distribution block herefor every heat generating device,you can see we've gotthe cold and hot sidescoming into this Delrin distribution plateand then we've got coldcoming out to the components.These are all completelycustom water blocksand then hot coming backto the distribution plateall joining together andgoing back to the radiatorwhich then goes to our pumpreservoir combo unit up here.What we don't know is whatthe heck these things are.There's two pumps in here by the way.I'm not sure where theyare, but that's pretty.Oh, there they are, Ithink they're DDC variance.On/Off commands not available.Just rip out the power just there.Boom, they're gone.- Another news I checked in,we actually have a terabyte of ram.- 64 gigs each.This single dim has moreram than your workstation.- I wonder how manypeople are buying this thing?- I think it's less abouthow many people are buying this thingand more about how many ofthem some people are buying.Is this on or what?Select the Input.- Like I don't even have keyboard lights.- Interesting.- Well, first of all let's talk aboutwhat went wrong yesterday?- Oh yeah, let's do that.Did I screw it up?- Yes, you did.- Oh, was it when I pulled this thing off?- It was, yeah.- Cool.- So it turns outthat the power switchis like in here.So, this starts up thecooling checks everything.Make sure it's good.- Yeah.- And then...- Powers on the board.- Yeah, powers on the board.- So it just didn't.- Yeah, because when you did this,the power switch connector,you can see a little jumper right in therewhere you like really reefed on it.- Cool.- Yeah, that was unplugged.- Okay.- Took a call with the people in Austria.Jake, you spent what liketwo, three hours on this?- 20 minutes.- Oh, only 20 minutes, not too bad.- What did you just do?It literally just blue screened.- 20 minutes...It what? It blue screened?- Yeah, yeah.- Shut up.I didn't do anything.(Alex laughing)- You just have an aura.- No, I don't have an aura.- K, It's working now.- Yeah.- Don't, just don't touch anything.- I'm not touching it.- Stop, stop.- I'm screwing in a VGA ca...- Look users use keyboards,just go to the keyboards, okay?- Do I get to knowwhat GPUs they are now?They have the A6000s in therewhich means those must be 3090TIs then.- They're actually 3090s,I talked to them and they sent themjust so we could show them getting swappedand show how easy it is.- Okay, cool.What are we gonna do now?Because my understandingis you've spent some timeworking on a benchmark thatcan actually take advantageof all of this GPU compute.How much memory do thesefricking things have?48 gigs each? We have 200gigabytes of video memory.- Like just the CPU screen even like.- 76 cores, a 152 threads,I don't know Intel'slineup very well anymore.So what? These are each 38 cores.- Yeah.- Are, is that good?Are they fast?- I don't know, should we test it?- Okay, so we're going up againstwhat, what do we have herein the reference ones?What ways it compared to a 32 core 2990WX?- I think favorably.- Thank you for that.I wanna feel the heat though.- Oh, just watch this for a second.- Okay, all right, I'll watch.Okay, it was only necessaryto watch for a sec.No meaningful heat buildupwas going to occur.All right then.- Wow, that's fast.- 71,000,what the hell is in 8368?They turboed a 3.7,base 2.6, 270 watt TDPand a maximum memory sizeof six terabytes each.- During cinebenchthey reached a maximumtemperature of 55 degrees.- They alsoweren't running very long.Hey, what happened to our power meters?- They're right there.- We only have two.- We also have the sketchy one.- Let's use it one moretime before we throw it out.Cinebench, here we go.I can pretty much guarantee youthat the eight pin CPU power connectorsof each of these two power suppliesare going to the two eightpin inputs on the motherboard.So, we're sitting atabout 850 watts right now.Shall we do something to the GPUs?- Might as well.- Okay, so V-ray cuda.- Sure.- Or RTX?- Now, let's do cuda,I think that will hit it harder.- Here it comes.- Oh my God, holy,how is it not crashing?- It's pulling over 2000 watts.We have to be on two separate circuits.- We, we are, yeah.- I wanna feel the heat.- Yeah, we'rejust 2000 watts from...I'm gonna get a sun panboys, this is crazy.We're already at the pointwhere the incoming airis 22 degrees and the outgoing air is 44(Alex laughing)which is pretty nuts.And what's crazier isthat if you check this outthis V-ray benchmark onlyruns for one minute at a time.So, we're barely evenstressing these GPUs,I have to manually restartit every single timewhich means I think it's timefor us to switch over toyour solid works benchmark.- Okay, I'm concerned thatit's not really going to work.So, I've been havinga problem in the past.It just like renders a bunch of passes.On this they take such little timethat I've been having troublegetting them all to get fully loaded.- To its credit, when I'mnot unplugging power suppliesit appears to be rockfreaking solid stable.And in terms of balancing the loadhere let's hit it with V-ray again,no single one of our power suppliesis doing an outsized amount of the workwhen you're hitting the entire system.I think the most is around 850 watts.And given that these are 1000watt units from Silverstone,that's not bad.I do have concerns aboutthose poor power suppliesdrawing in like, no, itwouldn't even be 40 degree airbecause they're on this side.- Yeah.- Of the radiator.So actually they're gettingpretty decently cool air.- This is weird 'cause if youput your hand behind theradiator, it's super hot.But if you put it downwhere the power supplies is,it's still nice and cool.- Solidwork's crashed,maybe some kind of driverissue, we're not surebut blenders opening.- I'm curious a lotof my laptop benchmarkstake about one and a halfminutes on really fast onesto like three minuteson like something that'sa little bit slower.I'm kinda curious what this will do.- I'm thinkinga lot less than that.Holy (beep) is it done?No, okay, wait is it...(Alex laughing)Did we just witness a sub eightsecond blender BMW render?Samples 3000,sure.- Maybe just increase thenumber of light paths as well.- Yeah, total lots.- Okay,(Alex laughing)it still did it in 16 seconds.This is ridiculous.- That was 3000 samples and10 times as many light paths.- Okay, can we do like10,000 samples though- Is it evenhitting all of our GPUs?- It's not even hitting all the GPUs.(Alex laughing)Is it possible that's misreporting?- Oh, they are all hot, itprobably is just misreporting.- I think it's misreportingbecause it just did that in 31.8 seconds.(Alex laughing)- It's gonna be a problemtrying to stress this.- Classroom,well, you saw it herefirst ladies and gentlementhat is a 15 second classroombenchmark, 14.66 seconds.- I normally expect that tobe like 10 to 15 minutes.Who would've thoughtthat the render machineis incredible at rendering.- From 300 to 10,000 samples.It's still chewing off 20seconds at a time of the CTA.It's definitely using our cores,as for our GPUs we areat each one of theseis pulling about 280 watts.We've been added a minute.We still have about twominutes and 15 seconds leftcan confirm we've managed tofully load down the system.860 watts on that power supply.625 there, so, that's just shy of 1500,about 2000 watts total.- Yeah, 2100, maybe a peak.- Oh wow, it's really hot nowthat the coolant seated up.Oh, that radiator is hot to the touch.I'm amazed at how reasonablyquiet it is though.- Like you could have this in your room.- Yeah.- And aside from your room beinga billion degrees in like 20 minutes,you could live with it.And like GPU's been hittingthis for a little whilebut they're all at like 65 degrees maxwhile drawing 300 watts.And that's on top of the CPU.Each of which also are doing 300 watts.- Oh, it's done,it finished in threeminutes and eight seconds.It looks better though.- Well, I'd imaginethere's 10,000 samples.- Well, look, I've never lookedat it rendered like that.Wait, I think you're right.- Yeah, I am right.- They're NVLink, I thinkthey'll run in four way SLI.- They will.- Is that even supported?That's not even supported on the 3090TI.- I don't know.- I don't think so.Now, rendering device, wait,did you already click run?- I haven't clicked run.- Okay, so there's only onewhich would seem to suggest,it's gonna hit all four of them.Here we go.Here's where we find out, ifit's running in four way SLI.Oh, I'm fidgeting.- For some context, I spent a dayand a chiller, and a almost killing a 3090to get a score of 12,000 in this.- 500, 450, 6... holy (beep)it's hitting them all.So, we're sitting at about 1700 wattsthat's a little lower thanwhat we saw in blenderbutwe know,okay?That the CPU is not gonna be hit too hardduring the GPU por...Is this running at 120 frames a second?- Yep.- It's up to a 160 now.What we knowis that this will not stressour CPU nearly as muchas that blender render was.So, that 300 wat discrepancyis just one of our CPUs sitting ideal.These GPU's are going full grunt.- I guess we should probably calculateabout how much it would cost.- 7,500 times 2, there's your CPUs.Okay, use a calculator I give up.- About 60 grand.- 60 grand?Don't forget that they justship you random RTX 3090s.- Did it just crash?- Oh, I think it did crash.- Oh.- It crashed.Oh, she's done bud.In fairness to Comino fourway SLI has not been likeproperly supported byNvidia in a very long timeand it's probably a driver issue.Since we're happy with the A6000s in thereand we're not gonna swap in the RTX 3090s,I might as well just explainwhy they included these.It was so that we could showyou guys just how easy it isto swap out the cardsfrom your workstation.Comino will providethese pre-done up cards.So, basically it's just a one screw,undoing these quick disconnects,slotting in the new GPU,I mean, I guess you should alsoremove your power connectorsat some point,and then these actually comepre-filled with coolant.So, theoretically there'salmost no liquid losswhen you go from theold card to the new cardand you should almost neverhave to top up the coolantwhich I thought was pretty cool.Attempt number two isrunning a lot slower,power usage is lower.It's around 1300 watts.- Oh, it's crashing- Oh, and it's crashed.- I don't know if we're getting 3D markon this system.- I don't know if we're getting awaywithout telling theviewers about our sponsor.- Ting mobile.Do you like saving money?Ting mobile is a low cost carrierwith rates to help you do just that.Almost every phone on the marketwill work with Ting mobileand they have the perfectplan for everybody,no matter what your needs are.Start with unlimited talkand text for 10 bucks a monthor data plans from $15 a month.Their set 12 plan with 12 gigs of datais only 35 bucks a 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