Today’s workplace and business dynamics are consistent—and challenging—for almost all knowledge workers who rely on powerful commercial workstations. Growing data sets, speed to market, complex visualizations, and no-compromise deliverables are the rule, not the exception.
From an organizational perspective, it is important to give these key employees the tools they need to do their jobs most efficiently and effectively. This includes investing in modern, advanced, high-performance commercial workstations that enable them to:
- Work faster and with more iterations.
- Seamlessly multitask.
- Increase, accelerate, and improve their output.
- Address complex visualizations in real time.
- Spend less time rendering and more time creating or being away from their desks.
In evaluating professional workstations for these specialized workers and use cases, it is important to focus on not just the workstation itself but, most important, the underlying processors on which the workstations are designed and built. The processors are most determinative in delivering the kind of speed and performance necessary to maximize employee experience and productivity. Key factors to consider include:
- How many cores and threads does the processor offer?
- How high is the frequency/max boost clock speed?
- How much cache and how many PCle lanes does the processor offer?
- What are the security features?
- What are the manageability features?
A Portfolio to Meet the Needs of Demanding Professionals
Not all compute types have the same requirements, so it is important to seek a portfolio of products that can meet the different needs of your users and use cases. For modern, advanced, commercial workstations, AMD offers a full suite of solutions that meets the needs of the most demanding professionals. The AMD Ryzen Threadripper portfolio has been redefining the commercial workstation market since it was introduced in 2017. AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3000 WX processors brought unmatched core counts and multi-threaded performance to the market.
The latest addition to the product line, AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000 WX-Series processors, set new performance standards with up to 64/128 cores/threads, enhanced max boost speed, and 128 PCle lanes. For applications bound by memory speed, AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO processors offer high memory bandwidth through eight memory channels and up to 2 TB of memory capacity for tackling massive projects.
In addition to leading performance and memory capabilities, the AMD portfolio also offers a full suite of business-critical security features, including:
- AMD Memory Guard, a memory encryption feature to prevent physical attacks on sensitive data.
- AMD Secure Processor, an integrated on-chip security processor designed to protect sensitive data and validate code before it is executed.
- AMD Shadow Stack, which includes hardware protections built into the processor to mitigate certain types of malware attacks.
The Bigger Truth
The demands placed on commercial workstation users have intensified dramatically over the past several years, with much larger data sets, more complex visualizations, the need for more iterations, and the push by organizations to maximize both speed to market and ROI.
If these workers are trying to accomplish today's tasks with older workstations technologies, they are working at a significant disadvantage compared with competitors with modern, advanced commercial workstations using the most current workstation processors. At a time when employee experience is more valued and visible than ever, it is important to arm these critical workers with tools that allow them to do their best work while maintaining a better work-life balance.
Fortunately, as the demands placed on commercial workstations have intensified, workstation processor designs have evolved—with more powerful, faster, more secure, and simpler to manage solutions designed specifically for today’s more challenging environment. In adapting and advancing its workstation processor portfolio for commercial workstations, AMD continues to provide advantages versus competitive solutions.
For more information on how AMD solutions can help your organization deliver a modern, high-performance advanced workstation experience, please visit AMD and review the additional resources on this site, including the article titled “The Business Case for Delivering an Advanced Commercial Workstation Experience.”
