The solid foundation of the W480 is its 8-core Rocket Lake Xeon W-1390. This next-generation professional CPU has outstanding single-core performance thanks to Intel Thermal Velocity Boost and Turbo Boost Max 3.0. Single-core performance is especially important when it comes to CAD software during the live design phase, but when it becomes time to render, all ten cores will make light work of CPU-based rendering work.

The default Quadro T400 2GB card is suitable for light 3D acceleration, but you can easily swap it for something better suited for heavy GPU loads. Likewise, the 32GB if included ECC RAM will cover most professional use cases, but up to 128GB is possible so that the system can grow with your needs.

Expandable
Apart from its stellar upgradability and impressive core performance metrics, the W480 offers dual-Thunderbolt 3 ports, which is a rarity on most desktop systems. This makes adding additional displays or fast daisy-chained external drives easy to implement. This is just one of the many fantastic features of the Gigabyte W480M Vision motherboard, which was designed specifically to handle the high-bandwidth needs of creative professionals who work with 3D modeling or video editing projects. It’s designed to maximize stability, in tandem with ECC memory and Xeon CPUs, so you spend more time doing productive work and less time wondering why your renders are crashing at random.

Running your work remotely over the LAN is also possible thanks to dual LAN ports with failover and load-balancing functionality. The Xeon chip in the W480 offers a staggering 40 PCIe lanes and the motherboard supports PCIe 4.0, so whatever hardware you install, bottlenecks will never be an issue.

All of this is held together by a beautiful sandblasted mid-tower case with a tempered glass window, so you can see your W480 hard at work. With our class-leading lifetime labor and technical support, plus two years of parts replacement, there’s no doubt you’ll come to rely on this formidable workhorse.