Hardware Requirements

Minimum Recommended Hardware Specifications

CPU

Intel® Core™ i7/i9/Xeon 6 Core 3.5GHz / AMD Ryzen 3800X/5600 Series.

Power Supply

800 Watt Redundant Power Supply

System Drives

1TB NVMe Main OS Drive, 2TB SSD Secondary storage Drive

Mainboard

Socket 2066, Socket 2011, AMD X570 (PCI-E 4.0)

Memory

32GB

GPU

NVIDIA® RTX 2080

Video Board

AJA® Kona 4, AJA® Kona 5, AJA® Corvid 44, AJA® Corvid 44 12G, AJA® Corvid 88, AJA® Io 4k plus 

 

Blackmagic Design® DeckLink Pro 8K, DeckLink Duo 2, Decklink Quad 2, DeckLink SDI 4K ...

UHD/4K Minimum Recommended Hardware Specifications

CPU

Intel® Core™ i7/i9/Xeon 6 Core 4 GHz and up / AMD Ryzen 3900X/5800 Series.

Power Supply

800 Watt Redundant Power Supply

System Drives

1TB  NVMe Main OS Drive, 2TB SSD Secondary storage Drive

Mainboard

Socket 2066, Socket 2011, AMD X570 (PCI-E 4.0)

Memory

32GB

GPU

NVIDIA® RTX 3090

Video Board

AJA® Kona 5, AJA® Corvid 44 12G, AJA® Io 4k Plus 

 

Blackmagic Design® DeckLink Pro 8K, DeckLink SDI 4K ...

AMD GPUs are NOT supported.

 Video cards

 

Video card

Firmware Version

Video

Audio*

AJA

Kona 4

2021/04/14 (4K)

HD

embedded over SDI

AJA

Kona 5

2021/12/23 (4K)

HD

embedded over SDI
AES/EBU***

2021/12/26 (8K)**

multiformat HD & UHD

embedded over SDI

AJA

Corvid 44

2021/09/16 (4K)

HD

embedded over SDI

AJA

Corvid 44 12G

2021/12/19 (8K)

multiformat HD & UHD

embedded over SDI

AJA

Corvid 88

2021/11/30 (4K)

HD

embedded over SDI

AJA

Io 4k Plus

2021/06/23 (Io4KPlus)

multiformat HD & UHD

embedded over SDI

BMD

DeckLink 8K Pro

Driver 12.4

HD & UHD

embedded over SDI

BMD

DeckLink Quad 2

Driver 12.4

HD

embedded over SDI

BMD

DeckLink Duo 2

Driver 12.4

HD

embedded over SDI

BMD

DeckLink SDI 4K

Driver 12.4

HD & UHD

embedded over SDI

* Digital audio output generated in the Pixotope engine
** It is recommended to run the Kona 5 with 8K firmware by default to support all video standards without needing to change the firmware.
*** AES/EBU is only supported by Kona 5 with 4K firmware installed. No other firmware or video card supports this audio format.

Other BlackMagic Design devices not listed with SDI support may also work.

GPUs

NVIDIA® RTX 20 series

2080, 2080Ti

NVIDIA® RTX 30 series

3070, 3070Ti, 3080, 3080Ti, 3090, 3090Ti

NVIDIA® RTX 40 series

4070Ti, 4090

NVIDIA® RTX Professional series

A6000, RTX 6000 Ada

Other RTX cards not listed may also work.

Drivers

Operating System   

Windows® 10 Pro, 64-bit with the latest updates

AJA Driver

For all formats using Kona 4, Kona 5, AJA® Corvid 44, Corvid 44 12G, Corvid 88, Io 4k Plus  16.2 (retail) 

Nvidia Driver

442.50 or latest from Nvidia.com

See Nvidia driver installation

BMD DeckLink Driver

Driver 12.4

Software Requirements