Alex Herrera

Herrera on Hardware: Should you equip your CAD workstations with AMD processors? This exercise provides some performance data for comparison, plus insights about examining a CPU’s clock rates.

Herrera on Hardware: The company’s Ryzen 5000–generation CPUs solidify its resurgent competitive edge, particularly when it comes mainstream CAD.

AMD may have its best shot in more than a decade to take meaningful share in the market for professional graphics hardware.

Herrera on Hardware: The impressive introduction in gaming-focused products foreshadows the next generation of professional graphics products for CAD.

Herrera on Hardware: The retirement of NVIDIA’s Quadro brand is further evidence of the GPU’s changing role and shape.

Herrera on Hardware: Lenovo builds around AMD’s Threadripper PRO processor, while Intel ships the first fruits of Xe graphics and SuperFin technology.

Herrera on Hardware: The inverse relationship between core count and frequency presents a tricky tradeoff to navigate when choosing a CAD workstation CPU.

As the trend described by Moore’s Law comes to its inevitable end, CAD users and other compute-hungry professionals need the industry to find ways to deliver generation-to-generation improvements in performance.

Herrera on Hardware: Are you considering a remote computing solution? Latency likely won’t be a significant problem, but you’ll want to evaluate whether response time and image quality meet your expectations or are noticeable enough to be annoying.

With many employees forced to work from home, remote datacenter workstations make more sense than ever — and the arrival of Boxx Cloud Services couldn’t be more timely.