BOXX Introduces New APEXX T4 PRO AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 WX-Series Workstation

[GFreeman]

BOXX Technologies, the leading innovator of high-performance computer workstations, rendering systems, and servers, today introduced APEXX T4 PRO, a workstation featuring new, AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 WX- Series processors. The most powerful AMD platform ever, Ryzen Threadripper PRO delivers state-of-the-art performance for a variety of creative industries.

"The new AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000-WX Series provides an outstanding platform for APEXX T4 PRO," said BOXX founder and VP of Engineering Tim Lawrence. "The number of processing cores and innovative features, optimized by BOXX liquid cooling which is essential for high performance CPUs, will empower VFX artists, animators, motion media editors, architects, engineers, and data scientists, to create faster than ever before."



With support for up to 128 PCIe Gen 5 lanes and a boost of 5.3 GHz, "Zen 4" AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 WX-Series processors give APEXX T4 PRO unprecedented, multi-processing power for demanding 3D content creation workflows. Whether rendering complex 3D scenes, powering simulation, quickly rebuilding assemblies, or enabling AI training and inference, AMD's latest CPU series offering (up to 96 cores) allows APEXX T4 PRO users to experience full-spectrum compute capability rivalling competing dual-socket systems.

The new BOXX workstation also supports up to four, professional-grade GPUs: AMD Radeon Pro or NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada generation architecture. Additional features include multiple hard drive options, up to 2 TB of system memory, IPMI for remote system management, and state-of-the-art liquid cooling to optimize system performance. With APEXX T4 PRO, BOXX is the only workstation manufacturer to offer a liquid-cooled Threadripper PRO-based system. Highly configurable, APEXX T4 PRO delivers outstanding performance for applications like Autodesk 3ds Max, Maya, and Revit, as well as SOLIDWORKS, Avid, Adobe Creative Cloud, DaVinci Resolve, Cinema 4D, V-Ray, KeyShot, Blender, and Unreal Engine.

In addition to the APEXX T4 PRO, BOXX brings AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 WX-Series processors to the data center, mobile rack, or OB truck with RAXX T3 PRO, a rack-mounted platform featuring ample memory and up to four GPUs. RAXX T3 PRO is purpose-built to power film editing, virtual reality, broadcast, and other complex production workflows.

"With BOXX Threadripper PRO-based systems, you'll work faster and more efficiently, accelerate renders, enjoy more time for iterations, and never miss a deadline," said BOXX CEO Wes Breyfogle. "APEXX T4 PRO and RAXX T3 PRO offer a new standard of workstation performance."



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[HBSound]

Nice and clean!

 

[kapone32]

I am confused with the 2TB limit for M2 NVME.

 

[bonehead123]

I am confused with the 2TB limit for M2 NVME.

Well, most of the places where these rigs will be used will have significantly HUGE storage arrays/NAS's to keep the majority of their data on, thereby reducing the need for alot of internal storage capability...they just need their OS and some base apps locally, everything else is on the arrays and/or in the cloud....

I know that my company has already looked at and are considering these, and will be buying them or something similar real soon, as our processing and rendering requirements have been steadily increasing over the past year, and the old stuff simply can't keep up

 

[thesmokingman]

I am confused with the 2TB limit for M2 NVME.

It's probably all they could get and obviously has nothing to do with the actual hardware limit. Also given the space, large drives are used in bifurication setups. No one needs a 2TB OS drive anyways.

 

[kapone32]

It's probably all they could get and obviously has nothing to do with the actual hardware limit.

It still doesn't make sense, I have never seen a M2 slot limited by Storage amount. I had no idea it was possible to limit that. Storage seems to always on been limited by interface.

 

[thesmokingman]

It still doesn't make sense, I have never seen a M2 slot limited by Storage amount. I had no idea it was possible to limit that. Storage seems to always on been limited by interface.

You're assuming a vendor limit = hardware limit.

 

[Chrispy_]

These never make any sense to me, especially in a low-end spec like the one on their website:

I can buy a 2P EPYC server with twice the ECC RAM and 64-cores for less than that.

 

[thesmokingman]

These never make any sense to me, especially in a low-end spec like the one on their website:

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I can buy a 2P EPYC server with twice the ECC RAM and 64-cores for less than that.

EPYC has lower clock speeds and higher efficiency fit for servers whereas Threadrippers are have desktop level clocks and higher performance. There's no secret here.

 

[Chrispy_]

EPYC has lower clock speeds and higher efficiency fit for servers whereas Threadrippers are have desktop level clocks and higher performance. There's no secret here.

There are EPYCs for high clock - 4.4GHz last time I checked, which was at least a year ago.

 

[thesmokingman]

There are EPYCs for high clock - 4.4GHz last time I checked, which was at least a year ago.

In low core counts but those were really before they un-nerfed TR. Now there is no point to going low core count high clock EPYCS with these TR. They're the same chip you know.

 

[Ferrum Master]

I am confused with the 2TB limit for M2 NVME.

It ain't M2 limit but the RAM one IMHO.

 

[kapone32]

It ain't M2 limit but the RAM one IMHO.

So the RAM on the M2 is maxed at 2TB?

 

[n-ster]

These never make any sense to me, especially in a low-end spec like the one on their website:

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I can buy a 2P EPYC server with twice the ECC RAM and 64-cores for less than that.

As a sysadmin, it's frustrating but you NEVER get the real price online, they purposefully have the price sky-high, especially with any kind of upgrade from base spec unless you talk to your rep. It's just a dance you have to do everytime, but at least you can say you got a "XX% discount" I guess? I've noticed they'll often inflate the EPYC ones more, probably helps sell the Xeons more and push people to think "no one ever got fired for going Intel" mentality, on top of the giant PITA that is changing architectures.

 

[Chrispy_]

In low core counts but those were really before they un-nerfed TR. Now there is no point to going low core count high clock EPYCS with these TR. They're the same chip you know.

Yes, but I'm specifically having a winge at the low-core count model listed, which is slower than the 320W EPYCs of similar core count.

 

[Blue4130]

There are EPYCs for high clock - 4.4GHz last time I checked, which was at least a year ago.

You are comparing base vs boost speeds though.
The TR is 4.2 base with 5.3 boost. The fastest Epyc (9174F) is 4.1 base with a 4.4 boost. Big difference.