Cyberpower Infinity Fusion Pro review

Cyberpower’s Infinity Fusion Pro introduces Intel’s Ivy Bridge E family of chips. The new processors follow last year’s Sandy Bridge E series, and are also aimed at workstation and enthusiast systems: they use the same architecture as consumer-grade Ivy Bridge processors, but feature larger onboard caches and quad-channel memory for extra bandwidth.

There are three models in the family: two six-core parts and one quad-core. For the Fusion Pro, Cyberpower has chosen the quad-core, 3.7GHz i7-4820K, which is overclocked to 4.6GHz. The CPU is partnered with 8GB of DDR3 RAM, clocked at 2,133MHz, and Samsung’s 256GB Samsung 840 Series SSD, as well as a 1TB mechanical drive. Since E series processors don’t contain GPUs, the Fusion Pro also includes an MSI-branded Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 graphics card.

It adds up to a powerful PC. In our desktop benchmarks, the Fusion Pro scored 1.22 overall – a modest but noteworthy step up from the 1.16 we saw last year from PC Specialist’s Sandy Bridge E-based Vortex Destroyer. It isn’t the fastest desktop we’ve seen, though: the PC Specialist Vanquish Enforcer rode an overclocked Haswell-based Core i7-4770K to a benchmark score of 1.3.

It’s a similar story with 3D performance. In our Very High quality, 1,920 x 1,080 Crysis benchmark, the Fusion Pro achieved an excellent 84fps. That’s plenty of power for multimonitor gaming or other GPU applications, and not far off the highest score we’ve seen. Once more, however, the Vanquish Enforcer retains the crown, with an average of 96fps.

One area where the Fusion Pro excels is power consumption. With both GPU and CPU stress-tested to 100%, we saw PC Specialist’s Sandy Bridge E and Haswell systems hit peak power draws of 425W and 472W respectively. The Fusion Pro peaked at 314W, dropping to a reasonable 74W when sitting idle.