Puget Systems Updates 12th Gen Intel Core Processors Workstations with Newer, Faster DDR5 Memory

The newest Puget Systems core workstations boosts performance with a combination of 12th Gen Intel Core processor and faster DDR5 memory, offering measurable performance gains for content creators.

Puget Systems today announced it has updated its newest family of custom workstations based on the 12th Gen Intel Core Processor with newer, faster DDR5 memory. Announced late last year, the 12th Gen Intel Core Processors perform extremely well in intensive content creation applications, such as Adobe Adobe Premiere Pro, where it delivers anywhere from a 20% to nearly 50% performance improvement over the previous 11th Gen processors.

With the addition of the latest DDR5 memory to these workstation configurations, Puget Systems Labs testing has found significant additional boosts in performance for these industry-popular content creation platforms. Based on extensive testing, Puget Systems Labs found the new Core Workstations populated with the new DDR5 memory provided an additional 10% performance boost on top of the performance gains achieved by the 12th Gen Intel Core Processor.

There are a number of areas of advancements that contribute to DDR5 memory performance improvements over previous generations, including:

• Higher clock frequencies:  Intel’s Core i9 12900K officially supports DDR4 speeds up to 3200 MT/s while it can handle DDR5 at up to 4800 MT/s;
• Increased reliability: DDR5 has a new feature called On-die ECC (error checking and correcting) which protects data integrity inside each memory chip. This is a nice addition, but it is not a replacement for full ECC memory in servers and mission-critical systems because it cannot monitor for or fix errors that happen to data in transit over the memory bus;
• Increased memory capacity: This may not be seen on the market for a while, but DDR5 has double the number of memory banks which will allow for more memory per module when manufacturers want to offer larger capacities;
• Less power hungry: DDR5 has a base operating voltage of 1.1V versus 1.2V for DDR4, though high performance modules from both generations often demand more power;
• Onboard voltage regulation: With DDR5, voltage regulation is handled on each memory module instead of on the motherboard. This reduces motherboard complexity and cost slightly, but that shift means more complex and costly memory modules instead.

For more information on Puget Systems newest DDR5-powered workstations, please visit https://www.pugetsystems.com/landing/DDR5-Memory-162. 

About the Puget Systems Updated Core Workstations

Based on Puget Systems Labs findings with the 12th Gen Intel Core processor enhanced with DDR5 memory, Puget Systems has updated its Recommended Systems hardware lists to reflect the results of extensive testing across multiple categories of content creation, including Post Production, Virtual Production, Rendering, 3D Design and Animation, and Photo Editing. More information on Puget Systems Recommended Systems Hardware can be found here.

The new 12th Gen Intel Core processors represent a new generation of processors from Intel, with unprecedented new performance hybrid architecture that offers a unique combination of Performance and Efficient-cores (P-core and E-core) for real-world performance that is intuitively scaled and ideally suited for processor-intensive post production applications.

The Performance-core is Intel’s highest performing CPU core to date and is designed to maximize single-thread performance and responsiveness for compute intensive workloads. The Efficient-core delivers multithreaded performance for tasks that can run in parallel (like image rendering), along with efficient offload of background tasks for modern multitasking.

Additionally, the Intel 12th Gen Core is the first processor platform to support this memory standard and can work with either DDR5 or DDR4 depending on the motherboard used.

Pricing and Availability

Puget Systems custom Core Workstations with the new 12th Gen Intel Core processor series and DDR5 memory will be available for immediate configuration for a wide range of applications beginning in March 2022. To learn more or to speak with one of our technology consultants, please visit www.pugetsystems.com.