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That's what I'd expect. 3DMark 2001 is almost certainly single threaded, and GPU throughput has gone up massively compared to the improvements we've seen in CPU single thread performance. i9-10980/64GB DDR4-3600 quad channel/3090. No OC. And...

I'm actually not all that surprised. Unlike a lot of server NICs Mellanox/NVidia ConnectX cards actually have official support for client Windows. I have a few ConnectX-4 cards, and one of those will pretty much hit 10Gb in an old ass Ivy...

There are hacks to enable it on pretty ancient hardware, but then you're dealing with hacks and YMMV. Might be fun to try. The oldest rig I have is an Ivy Bridge (2013) socket 2011 Xeon E5-2687W machine. Stuff an RTX3060Ti in it and give a...

I have an Ivy Bridge socket 2011 machine. I pretty much quit using it last fall, but it had 64GB of ram and I'd upgraded it to a Xeon E5-2687Wv2 (8 cores, 4.0GHz max turbo) CPU off eBay (used server pull) a few years back for like $120 or...