BOXX ships APEXX D5 workstation with quad-GPU support and 56-core Xeons

The APEXX D5 addresses a critical hardware bottleneck for studios transitioning from traditional rendering to AI-augmented production. By accommodating five professional-grade GPUs, BOXX provides a dense compute solution for deep neural network training and high-speed simulation without requiring a server room footprint. For the streaming industry, this suggests a push toward localizing heavy AI inference and real-time VFX workloads at the workstation level rather than relying solely on cloud-based clusters. Watch for how this high-density local compute affects the adoption of open-source machine learning frameworks in live broadcast environments.

The launch of high-density workstations like the APEXX D5 aligns with a broader industry shift toward local AI processing power. Per AEC Magazine in February 2026, Intel recently expanded its workstation capabilities by launching the Xeon 600 series, featuring the Granite Rapids architecture with up to 86 cores. This hardware evolution specifically targets multi-threaded performance in rendering benchmarks like Cinebench 2026, where Intel claims a 61% performance uplift over previous generations. This competitive pressure from Intel arrives as AMD continues to scale its Threadripper Pro 9000 series, which offers up to 96 cores for similar production-heavy workloads.

On the graphics front, NVIDIA has significantly increased VRAM capacities to meet the demands of large language model (LLM) inference and neural rendering. According to reporting from TechPowerUp in March 2025, BOXX was among the first manufacturers to integrate the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell edition GPUs into its APEXX line. These newer Blackwell chips offer up to 96GB of GDDR7 memory, nearly double the capacity of previous Ada Lovelace-based cards, allowing professionals to host 70B-class open models locally. This massive increase in local memory bandwidth, cited by Yotta Labs in March 2026, is becoming the primary metric for workstation value as long-context AI serving stability becomes a standard requirement for media and entertainment professionals.