ELSA VELUGA, You may not have heard the name, but in Japan, this company, apart from selling its powerful premium prebuilt workstation desktops, also sells professional laptop workstations, professional graphics cards, media servers, Nvidia data center GPUs, robotics products, and many more products.
ELSA VELUGA: This company is famous in Japan. If you see the prebuilt workstation of this company, then in terms of aesthetics, it has a simple cabinet, a simple, quiet, big air cooler, and a professional GPU designed for a workstation. You get to see these prebuilt workstations with cards like NVIDIA RTX A2 6000, RTX A4000, and RTX A2000.
Today, we are talking about a workstation coming from Elsa Veluga that features AMD’s latest and most powerful Radeon AI Pro R9700 GPU, so let’s take a look.
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Design:
The ELSA VELUGA-D A70S G6 prebuilt workstation has a straightforward appearance, and, like other ELSA VELUGA workstations, it has a typical mid-tower cabinet. The design of this workstation is nearly identical to that of the NZXT H-510, with the exception of the absence of a glass window. The machine weighs about 14.25 kg and has dimensions of 220 x 460 x 465 mm. It has three 120 mm fan printers, and ELSA VELUGA uses a large air cooler for CPU cooling, but the fans installed inside are very quiet. A 1000W power supply with an 80+ Gold rating is included with the ELSA VELUGA-D A70S G6 prebuilt workstation.
GPU:
AMD recently released the Radeon AI Pro R9700. It is AMD’s most potent GPU to date. The AMD RDNA 4 (Navi 48) architecture serves as the foundation for this GPU. It has 4,096 stream processors and 64 compute units in total. It has 64 3rd-gen Ray Accelerators and 128 2nd-gen AI Accelerators. This Radeon AI Pro R9700 has a base clock of about 2,350 MHz and a boost clock of up to 2,920 MHz. The total compute performance of this GPU is 96 TFLOPS. It has 32 GB of 256-bit GDDR6 VRAM for video memory, with a bandwidth of 640 GB/s and a maximum speed of 20 Gbps.
The special thing is that you get 64 MB of Infinity Cache from AMD; this GPU consumes around 260–300 W of power. This GPU is specially designed. The Radeon AI Pro R9700 GPU is specialized for AI workloads like generative AI and the latest large-scale language models (LLMs); you do not need to be dependent on cloud resources.
CPU:
In this prebuilt workstation of ELSA VELUGA, you have been given an AMD Ryzen 7 9700X processor, which is a powerful processor based on AMD’s latest Zen 5 architecture, for which you are offering a total of 8 cores and 16 threads. The base clock of this CPU is 3.8 GHz, and the boost clock is 5.5 GHz.
RAM:
If we talk about memory, then you get 64GB 5600MHz DDR5 high-quality JEDEC-compliant memory modules in this prebuilt workstation, which you can upgrade up to 128GB.
ROM:
If we look at the storage, you get 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, and 8TB options. In this, you get PCIe Gen4 NVMe, due to which you get blazing fast speed.
Specifications:
| Component | Details |
|---|---|
| Main Processor | AMD Ryzen™ 7 9700X (3.8GHz – 5.5GHz / 8 cores / 16 threads) |
| Graphics | AMD Radeon™ AI Pro R9700 (32GB GDDR6, HDMI ×1, DisplayPort ×3) |
| Memory | 64GB DDR5-5600 UDIMM (Expandable up to 128GB) |
| Storage Options | NVMe M.2 SSD (PCIe Gen4 x4) – 1TB / 2TB / 4TB / 8TB |
| CPU Cooler | Large, quiet air cooler |
| Motherboard | MicroATX AMD B650 chipset |
| Expansion Slots | PCIe 5.0 x16 ×1 (used by GPU), PCIe 4.0 x4 ×1 |
| Front I/O Ports | USB 3.0 Type-A ×2, USB 3.2 Gen2 ×2, USB-C ×1, Mic-in ×1, Headphone-out ×1 |
| Rear I/O Ports | USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-A ×1, USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-C ×1, USB 3.2 Gen1 Type-A ×2, USB 2.0 Type-A ×4, HDMI ×1, DP ×1, LAN ×1, Audio in/out, S/PDIF, Antenna ×2 |
| Operating System | Windows 11 Pro |
| Power Supply | 1000W 80 PLUS Gold Certified PSU |
| Audio | 7.1 Channel HD Audio |
| Networking | 2.5G LAN, Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.2 |
| Cooling Fans | Front: 120 mm ×2 / Rear: 120 mm ×1 |
| Accessories | Power cable, Startup guide, OS media (Keyboard/Mouse sold separately) |
| Dimensions (W×D×H) | 220 × 460 × 465 mm |
| Weight | 14.25 kg (approx. 17 kg with packaging) |
| Warranty | 3-Year Send-Back Warranty |
| Model Number | ELVD7A-EG6S0199R |
Motherboard:
This ELSA VELUGA-D A70S G6 prebuilt workstation uses the ASRock B650M PRO X3D Wifi, which is a microATX motherboard with an AMD B650 chipset. This motherboard has one PCIe 5.0 x16 slot in which you can install an AMD Radeon AI Pro R9700, and the remaining four are PCIe 4.0 x16 slots in which you can install additional cards. In the future, you will be able to easily add an extra GPU in it.
Connectivity:
For connectivity, you get 2.5G wired LAN and Wi-Fi 6E wireless LAN/Bluetooth 5.2 in this motherboard.
IO-Ports:
Front: You get USB 3.0 Type-A x 2, USB 3.2 Gen2 x 2, Type-C x 1, microphone input x 1, and headphone output x 1 ports on the front panel of the Elsa Veluga-D A70S G6 Prebuilt Workstation.
Rear: In the rear panel, you will find:
USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-A x 1, USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-C x 1, USB 3.2 Gen1 Type-A x 2, USB 2.0 Type-A x 4, Antenna port x 2, HDMI output port x 1, DisplayPort output x 1, RJ-45 LAN port x 1, Sound input x 1, Front speaker x 1, Microphone x 1, S/PDIF optical output connector port x 1
Warranty:
If we talk about warranty, then you get the ELSA VELUGA-D A70S G6 prebuilt workstation with a three-year standard warranty. And in this, you get Microsoft Windows 11 Pro pre-installed.
Price:
The ELSA VELUGA-D A70S G6 prebuilt workstation is on sale in Japan at the direct ELSA store for 498,000 yen (roughly $3,360), but it may be available for sale globally.
Opinion:
The ELSA VELUGA-D A70S G6 Prebuilt Workstation is a powerful AI powerhouse machine; there is no doubt about it. However, in today’s new era, mini AI workstations like the Minisforum MS-S1 MAX AI are available in the market. This Mini Workstation comes with the most powerful mobile chip ever. We are talking about the AMD Ryzen AI Max + 395 processor. This is an APU; you get 16 cores and 32 threads. Its base clock speed is 3.0 GHz, and its boost clock is 5.1 GHz, which is really praiseworthy, along with the powerful Radeon RX 8060S iGPU in it, which provides nearly as much performance as the Nvidia RTX 4070. This Strix Halo Graphics has an RDNA 3.5 base, in which you receive 40 compute units and 2560 shading units, and the graphics frequency of this Radeon 8060S is 2900 MHz, which is strong. Along with this, you get massive superfast LPDDR5X 128 GB RAM, which runs at 8000 MHz. At this point, those who want a mini workstation in a small form factor can go with this Minisforum MS-S1 MAX AI.
Because currently, the ELSA VELUGA-D A70S G6 prebuilt workstation is available only in Japan.
