PCSpecialist Quantum Goliath R review
This review first appeared in issue 361 of PC Pro. PCSpecialist’s Quantum Goliath R is an outlier in this group test of workstations , as one of two systems supplied with consumer-grade rather than professional graphics. But that doesn’t mean it’s just a gaming PC . Certain types of content creators – particularly game developers – prefer this anyway. The GPU in question is an incredibly potent Asus TUF GeForce RTX 4090 OC Edition. This sports 16,384 CUDA cores, which is almost as many as the Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada Generation and more than any other Nvidia card here. There’s 24GB of GDDR6X memory with 1,008GB/sec of bandwidth, which is also the highest in the Labs. PCSpecialist has also gone for the best with the CPU, an Intel Core i9-14900KS. That’s one rung up from the 14900K provided by InterPro. The 14900KS similarly provides eight P-cores (with multithreading) and 16 E-cores (without) and has the same 3.2GHz base clock for the P-cores, with 2.4GHz for the E-cores. However,...