Articles by Jon K. Carroll

Articles by: Jon K. Carroll

Kepler in the Workstation: Nvidia Rolls Out New Quadros

By Jon K. Carroll published 5 March 13

A Kepler-based Quadro line

iBuyPower P500X And P900DX Workstations, Reviewed

By Jon K. Carroll published 3 December 12

Armed with updated workstation benchmarks, we have two systems from iBuyPower in the lab today: a $2,000 quad-core entry-level rig, and an $8,000 sixteen-core behemoth. With $6,000 separating the two, is the performance spread really what you'd expect?

AMD Demos Eyefinity on FirePro W9000 Workstation GPU

By Jon K. Carroll published 4 September 12

The card for serious business can game too.

Photoshop OpenGL, OpenCL Performance on AMD A300 APU

By Jon K. Carroll published 4 September 12

Check out what adding some graphical power can do for a processor.

Nvidia Next-Gen Maximus Demoed in Videos From SIGGRAPH

By Jon K. Carroll published 16 August 12

Check out our full HD 1080p videos of Nvidia's Kepler GPU-based Maximus 2.0 in action.

Boxx Technologies 3DBOXX 4860 Workstation

By Jon K. Carroll published 3 March 11

HP's Z400 Workstation Runs The Tom's Hardware Gauntlet

By Jon K. Carroll published 23 September 10

We've recently put a lot of effort into designing a custom benchmark suite for testing workstation-class hardware. It's a work in progress, first used to test Intel's Xeon 5600-series CPUs. Today we have some results gleaned from HP's Z400 workstation.

Nvidia Launches Fermi-based Quadro GPUs

By Jon K. Carroll published 29 July 10

Fermi for serious business.

Nvidia Demonstrates Interactive Ray-tracing

By Jon K. Carroll published 29 July 10

SIGGRAPH 2010, the annual computer graphics trade show of the ACM, started is exhibition Tuesday and Nvidia demonstrated at its booth the latest Quadro Fermi graphics cards.

BOXX 'World's Fastest Single-CPU Workstation'

By Jon K. Carroll published 28 July 10

In conjunction with SIGRAPH 2010, workstation vendor BOXX technologies has announce d the availability of their new 3dBOXX 4880 Xtreme, what it is billing as the “Worlds Fastest Single-processor Workstation” -- configured with “Enhanced Performance.”

How To: Building Your Own Render Farm

By Jon K. Carroll published 19 March 10

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