Our a-X Mediaworkstation features an AMD Threadripper PRO CPU with up to 64 cores for powerful, multi-threaded processing. and up to 4 graphics cards for GPU rendering. With up to 1TB DDR4 3200 GHz ECC RAM, available native 10Gb Ethernet and 3 m.2 slots for fast storage options, the a-X Mediaworkstation combines the most powerful GPU rendering and CPU rendering capabilities with ECC stability at lower cost than similar AMD EPYC or Intel Xeon systems.
Not sure what the best configuration for your application usage is? Give us a call at 424-235-7479 and we’ll help you configure your workstation.
Evan –
I was looking for the fastest PC for Houdini when I started looking to replace my Mac Pro in Spetember. I found the Houdini articles here on MediaWorkstations.net and looking at other benchmarks online, and was clear the AMD 2990WX was the CPU I wanted bc it gave me the maximum number of CPU cores for the price. It also provides expandability for extra drives, and more RAM and additional graphics card if I want to add them later. I got 64GB RAM and also a single 2080 Ti GPU to begin experimenting with Redshift, but still do most of my rendering with Mantra. MediaWorkstations even pre-wired my system so if I want to add additional graphics cards later i can.
Game changer! Incredible performance improvement over my old Mac Pro, and Andy and Chris were great answering all my questions. Thanks for your help!
Casper –
Well this was kind of a no-brainer for me – but I really wasn’t sure what was best before I called mediaworkstations. I’m a CG artist in Miami and wanted the fastest workstation for Arnold, ZBrush and Lightwave. Rendering is always longest, and with 32 cores I have a beast supporting me running Arnold. Chris was cool about GPU rendering, yeah I know what kind of speed you get with Redshift and GPUs, but I’m an Arnold guy, and Chris said if I want the fastest workstation for Arnold and ZBrush the a-X Mediaworkstation is it because of all those cores. Maya is fast but not so much faster, and Chris explained Maya is more about high frequency. Again rendering is what always takes the most time, and I will tell you it’s a night and day difference from the 6-core Intel machine I had before. A whole new world, really.
Alan –
We are a small CG outfit in the valley SLOWLY making our way switching from Mac to PC. We do 90% of work in Cinema 4D and Adobe CC, and wanted a renderbeast for C4D at low cost and we got it with the a-X. We just for our a-X Mediaworkstation with the brand new 2990WX 32 core CPU, 64BG of RAM and 12TB of storage and it is a BEAST. We had some concerns about bringing a PC in but new we could double our productivity this way, and as Chris explained it was easily networked using SMB.
Thank you Mediaworkstations.net for providing us with the fastest PC for Cinema 4D we’ve seen, and with all our Mac to PC questions.
Liam –
We’re are small agency in Los Angeles supporting several large studios, and a number of smaller clients in a variety of different industries. We had been an all Mac studio, and two years ago we made the switch to an all-Adobe CC workflow along with Cinema 4D and Davinci Resolve. Truthfully we had been delaying the inevitable move from Mac to PC and made the plunge purchasing 4 of the a-X media workstations.
The processing speed increase has been dramatic. Having 128GB of RAM for After Effects and other high res work, the 16 core 1950X Threadripper CPUs, and drives which allow us to work with 4K and even 6K raw without dropped frames has been especially gratifying. We are still doing physical render in C4D for most of our work, but we’ve just purchased Redshift and have begin exploring the rendering speed benefits available using the 2 GTX 1080 Ti we have on each workstation.
There are things we still prefer about Mac OS of course – all of us – but our company project scope and artistic freedom has increased dramatically as a result of the processing power of our new a-Xs.