What do you need to get it right? What tools do you have to give your creative teams so they can work efficiently?
3D requires computing power, but there’s more to it than that.
Of course, performance is a critical factor, and depending on the job at hand a workstation may eat through 16 to 64 or even 128 GB of RAM.
But graphics performance isn’t everything—you’ll also have to think about storage and the right display.
What’s the point of a workstation that is capable of delivering smooth 4K or 8K video and 100% of the Adobe colour space when your employees have a 21" monitor that’s limited to HD?
How can you optimally align your hardware for creating 3D assets to what you really need to get your projects done right?
One word—modularity.
Projects are constantly evolving and sometimes the same team has to work on different projects at the same time. That’s why you must be able to adapt your equipment on the fly. Plus, being able to stick to the same set of hardware for different projects is better for your wallet and the environment.
Workstations such as the Lenovo ThinkStation P620 tower are perfect for these scenarios. The ThinkStation P620 workstation comes with huge storage and RAM capacities and plenty of expansion slots and bays. It supports NVIDIA® Quadro® video cards and is equipped with two NVIDIA® RTX™ A6000 video cards, up to two NVIDIA® Quadro RTX™ 8000 video cards or up to four NVIDIA® Quadro® RTX™ 4000 GPUs.
It’s also easy to make upgrades thanks to tool-free access to the chassis.
Can your hybrid or remote workforce do 3D?
Given the reality of remote work and the growing demand to demo projects outside the office, it’s wise to look into mobile workstations. Portable workstations may be less modular than their larger cousins with tower form factors, but they have the advantage of not only being compact but also pre-configured for a great variety of scenarios.
For this, too, Lenovo offers just the thing. The mobile ThinkPad P1 Gen 4 workstation supports up to 4 TB of storage capacity and includes an M.2 PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD, enabling memory capacities of up to 64 GB
. With Lenovo’s Ultra Performance Mode built in, your employees have even more power at their fingertips and can tap into the full potential of their ThinkPad P1 workstation when they need it.
Last but not least—the ISV standards.
One last thing you should consider when choosing a workstation is ISV standards to make sure that your hardware and creative software work perfectly together.
That’s why the Lenovo P series is tested to meet the needs of creative applications, and some models are specifically engineered to power popular applications used by media and entertainment professionals, including Adobe, Autodesk, Avid, Blackmagic Design, Epic, Foundry, and many more.
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