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Blender System Requirements and Benchmarks Like most software developers, the Blender Foundation maintains a list of system requirements for Blender that can be used to help ensure the hardware in your computer system will work with their software. However, most “system requirements” lists tend to cover only the very basics of what hardware is needed

Overview Intel’s Core™ Ultra processors offer fantastic performance in Blender, as most tasks outside of rendering are lightly-threaded. However, this compact system is limited to 128GB of memory and a single video card (GPU) – so if you need more capacity, take a look at our larger workstation options. If you are not sure which

Overview For Blender users who focus heavily on rendering, this system offers higher CPU core counts and more video cards (GPUs) than our standard workstation. Single-core performance is lower, though, and overall cost is substantially higher – so this configuration is only worthwhile if you need more than two GPUs or 192GB of memory.

Creating models, adding rigging, and performing animations in Maya needs a responsive workstation in order to allow your creative process to flow. Our recommended systems are designed to allow you to do your work without any hardware bottlenecks.

Overview Optimized for the single-threaded nature of most 3D design tasks in Maya (including creating, modifying, and animating 3D models), this system is built around Intel’s Core™ Ultra processors which offer very high single-core performance. It also supports up to 128GB of RAM, consumer and professional NVIDIA video cards, and multiple storage options – making

Our workstations for Autodesk Maya are tested and optimized to give you the best performance and reliability. View our hardware recommendations.

3ds Max System Requirements Like most software developers, Autodesk maintains a list of system requirements for 3ds Max that can be used to help ensure the hardware in your system will work with their software. However, this “system requirements” list only covers the very basics of what hardware is needed to run the software, not what hardware

Overview Optimized for the single-threaded nature of most 3D design tasks in 3ds Max (including creating, modifying, and animating 3D models), this system is built around Intel’s Core™ Ultra processors which offer very high single-core performance. It also supports up to 128GB of RAM, consumer and professional NVIDIA video cards, and multiple storage options –

Puget Systems has performed extensive analysis of 3ds Max to configure systems that are designed specifically for the needs of 3ds Max users.

Overview While most aspects of Nuke are single-threaded, there are some effects (especially particles) and plugins which can utilize more cores. Even more importantly, large projects and long timelines can often require substantial amounts of system memory. This AMD Threadripper system offers the highest core counts available, combined with up to 512GB of system RAM.