The absolute monster Corsair 7000D Airflow with some of the latest DDR5 gear inside (MSI Z690 EDGE D5 motherboard and G.Skill Trident Z5 5600Mhz).
Further housing Intel’s i9 12th gen Alder Lake CPU, 360mm Liquid cooler and an RTX3080Ti, this machine comes ready for some serious gaming!
In Early March, Apple announced the M1 Ultra that came along with some big claims, namely that the M1 Ultra could outperform Nvidia’s RTX 3090.
Very big call indeed.
Naturally though, the PC community have been quick to dispute this, with Apple’s performance graph being shown to be somewhat flawed (or at the very least, misleading) and plenty of questions being raised about the legitimacy of Apple’s claims.
Let’s rewind and see how this has all played out…
Apple released the above graph with March 8th’s press release, displaying the power of the M1 Ultra’s chip and outperforming the “highest end discrete GPU” at approximately 33% of the power. If you have perfect eye sight and the worlds strongest magnifying glass, you might be able to see in the bottom right hand corner that this discrete GPU is in fact the RTX 3090 (this is also listed in Apple’s press release via the fine print at https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/03/apple-unveils-m1-ultra-the-worlds-most-powerful-chip-for-a-personal-computer/).
Although this is undeniably Apples strongest GPU to date and incredibly fast – late last week, The Verge released benchmark testing for the M1 Ultra vs the RTX 3090 using Geekbench’s GPU tests as well as against Shadow of The Tomb Raider to see how it really stacks up.
Although somewhat expected, “the new M1 Ultra is not able to outperform the RTX3090 in terms of raw GPU performance, according to benchmark testing performed by The Verge.” (https://www.macrumors.com/2022/03/17/m1-ultra-nvidia-rtx-3090-comparison/)
That being said, the M1 Ultra and the Mac Studio system does appear to be quite impressive (especially for content creation and 3D modelling), however their marketing could be seen as misleading as their graphing does not take into account the full power range of Nvidia’s chip. Further noted during the testing against Shadow of The Tomb Raider was that “there was substantial, noticeable micro stutter at every resolution we tried. This is not at all a computer that anyone would buy for gaming” (https://www.theverge.com/22981815/apple-mac-studio-m1-ultra-max-review)
The above testing and with GPU prices anticipated drop by consumers, the 3090 will make less of a hit on your wallet and certainly appears to be the more advantageous, both performance and value wise.
With that in mind, those of you who are after the absolute best performance may be better served waiting for the upcoming release of the RTX3090Ti or even the 4000 series.
Another beautiful build from our tech’s in MSI’s Gungnir 110R. This solid mid range gaming PC includes the ever reliable RTX3060, AMD’s Ryzen 9 5900X CPU, 16GB of RAM and plenty of fan forced cooling.
This builds also comes stream capture ready with an Elgato 4K Game Capture card installed by our team, letting our customer get straight to what they need their custom PC for!
It’s been a while since we showcased a build in an NZXT case and here we have the sleek H710 in red with perfectly matching red PSU extensions, a very aesthetically pleasing build and exactly as our customer wanted it!
This PC also houses a 10th gen Intel i5 CPU with liquid cooling, 16GB of RAM and a RTX3060
MSI’s Gungnir 110R is already a nice case for any RGB fans out there, this build goes the extra mile adds multiple RGB RAM sticks and extra RGB stripping inside.
