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Home > Products > Sonnet Suites > System Requirements > Recommendations

Hardware Recommendations for Sonnet Release 18

Updated Nov. 2015

Based on internal benchmarks and information available to the Electronic Design Automation industry, Sonnet Software recommends the following configurations for optimum performance of your Sonnet em® simulations:

Component Desktop System High Performance System
CPU

Intel® Core™ i7-11700K
11th Gen (Rocket Lake)
8-Core 3.6 GHz

AMD®  Ryzen™ 7 5800X Series
8-Core 3.8 GHz

Intel® 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors (Ice Lake)

AMD® Ryzen Threadripper™ PRO 3995WX

64-Core 2.7 GHz

RAM
32GB DDR4
256GB DDR4
Hard Disk
500GB SSD
500GB SSD
Graphics Card
Open GL® Compatible
Open GL® Compatible
Networking
Gigabit Ethernet
Gigabit Ethernet
Sonnet License
Desktop Solver
High Performance Solver

View the System Requirements Page



Intel, Intel Core and Xeon are all registered trademarks of the Intel Corporation. OpenGl is a registered trademark of SGI. em® is a registered trademark of Sonnet Software, Inc. Sonnet Software, Inc. is not a reseller or partner of the Intel Corporation. These recommendations are provided as a service to customers of Sonnet Software, Inc. Sonnet Software has not been tested on all available hardware configurations and cannot guarantee performance results.

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