The desktop hardware scene had some big releases in early 2022 and BIMBOX is actively taking advantage of the increased performance. In this blog, we’ll cover recent Stryker III changes and take a peek at what you can expect to see from BIMBOX in 2022.
Case and Cooling
BIMBOX has recently updated their chassis selection on desktops to improve overall performance. The latest chassis for the Stryker III and Osprey systems provides improved airflow and sound dampening that results in a silent, high-performance system. The new hybrid design case features sound dampening top and front panels that can be removed to reveal a high-airflow mesh fabric that increases the cooling performance of the system.
Graphics Cards
Nvidia’s latest GeForce graphics cards offer increased performance compared to their non-Ti predecessors. Each version of the GPU offer increases in CUDA, RT, and Tensor core counts, as well as an increase in memory bandwidth. Although the RTX 3060Ti received a 4GB drop in VRAM, you can still expect to see an increase in overall performance over the RTX 3060.
NVMe Drives
The hard drives of choice for BIMBOX have been updated from Samsung’s 980 Pros to Western Digital’s Black SN850 NVMe Drives. The WD Black SN850 offers improved performance and longer lifespan over Samsung’s top-tier drives. Western Digital’s latest drives offer an additional 250,000 hours of lifespan while also providing a 6%/12% increase in sequential write/read times. While both drives offer exceptional performance, BIMBOX has opted for the drives that are built to last while providing next-level performance.
What’s in Store for the Future?
Intel 12th Gen. i9 12900K
Released in Q4 of 2021, Intel’s latest generation of desktop processors have finally arrived (and with some impressive performance, too). Intel has taken an interesting new approach to the design of their latest generation of processors, implementing a microarchitecture scheme, which combines Performance Cores (P-Cores) and Efficiency Cores (E-Cores) with the new Thread Director feature. P-Cores focus on high-performance computing while offering hyperthreading, whereas the E-cores focus on maximizing performance per watt and only offer a single thread per core. Thread Director is a new Intel feature which works exclusively with Windows 11, taking advantage of the hybrid design to intelligently route workloads to maximize power consumption efficiency and performance.
The new 12900K is a 16 (8+8) Core/24 Thread processor with base clock speeds of 3.20Ghz/2.4Ghz (P-Core/E-Core) and boost speeds of 5.2Ghz/3.9Ghz. You can expect these new processors to be overclocked to +5.2Ghz on all P-Cores, providing a significant increase in performance over the 11900K.
DDR5 RAM
With the latest chipset release from Intel, we also see a new version of RAM coming to market. DDR5 brings some significant changes to the realm of RAM over its DDR4 predecessor. Each stick of DDR5 RAM now has two data channels, allowing the CPU to access the same stick of RAM more than once simultaneously. While DDR4 had a maximum die density of 16GB, that number is now quadrupled to 64GB with DDR5, providing a significant boost in overall RAM capacity. Data rates for DDR5 currently vary between 4800Mhz to 6800Mhz, which is a significant increase over the previous generation.
Similar to the transition from DDR3 to DDR4, we currently see the latency of DDR5 hindering performance and closing the gap with DDR4. Expect to see those latency numbers to drop over the next few months and performance of DDR5 pull away from DDR4.
PCIe 5.0 NVMe Drives
With the latest release of PCIe 5.0 comes the opportunity for faster storage drives. In comparison to PCIe 4.0, the data transfer rates have doubled with the new PCIe 5.0 technology, boasting 32 gigatransfers per second, or 32 GT/s, a 128 GB/s bandwidth in an x16 configuration, and a frequency of 32GHz. This is exceptional news for users continuing to ramp up their reality capture and laser scan registration efforts, as read/write speeds can often be a bottleneck in those workflows. We are also seeing some promising numbers in terms of storage capacity from the first few PCIe 5.0 drives, reaching upwards of 8TB and Samsung’s 15.36TB PM1743 drive. While currently unreleased to the market, we expect to implement PCIe 5.0 drives into BIMBOX desktops later this year.
Brad Clark
Director of Technology + Innovation
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Brad was born and raised in Southern Idaho and attended the University of Idaho to pursue all three of his degrees – B.S. in Virtual Technology & Design, master’s in architecture and Ph.D. in Education. Following his time at the U of I, he served as Washington State University’s Emerging Academic Technology Specialist where he was the lead researcher for educational technologies.
In 2017, he changed careers and moved to the construction industry, joining Clark Construction’s VDC team. During his time at Clark, Brad led BIM coordination on billion-dollar projects, managed all VDC efforts in the Pacific Northwest Region and established the company’s VDC hardware standards. He joined the ATG team to fuel his passion for hardware and to make an impact in the AEC industry by helping people find the right tools.