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System Requirements

The system requirements for the dedicated tracking workstation.

Pixotope Tracking - Certified Hardware

Lenovo P7 Workstation - needs to be configured via Lenovo with these components:

Graphics card

NVIDIA RTX 4070 (TI or TI Super), RTX 4080

Please note that other graphics cards or extremely new revisions of those listed here must be checked for individual driver requirements well in advance of any production use. Driver updates may not be available short-termed.

CPU

Intel® Xeon® W5-3425

Motherboard

Intel FHF Expert W790 Chipset

RAM

RAM: 4x 16 GB DDR5-4800MHz

SSD

512 GB SSD, M.2 2280, PCIe 4.0 Performance, TLC, OPAL 2.0

Power Supply

TW_39L_1400W_92_VENTING_SP_WW

Video

BlackMagic DeckLink Mini Recorder 4K or Decklink 8K Pro - add-on after purchase from Lenovo

Operating system

Linux openSUSE 15.3 provided by TrackMen/Pixotope

Pixotope Tracking - Custom Configuration - Limited Support

Graphics card

Compatible graphics cards:
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, RTX 4070 (TI & TI Super), RTX 4080, RTX 4090, RTX A5500, RTX A6000

Please note that other graphics cards or extremely new revisions of those listed here must be checked for individual driver requirements well in advance of any production use. Driver updates may not be available short-termed.

CPU

Avoid CPUs with very high core count since clock speeds are usually lower.

“or higher” refers to CPUs in the same series only! A 13100 is not higher than a 12700!

AMD Desktop

Zen 3: Ryzen 7  5700X or higher
Zen 4: Ryzen 7  7700  or higher

AMD Workstation

Zen 3: Threadripper 5000 series

AMD Server

Not recommended

Intel Desktop

From 12th generation, E-cores must be disabled in BIOS

11th Generation:  Core i7  11700 or higher
12th Generation:  Core i7  12700 or higher
13th Generation:  Core i7  13700 or higher

Disclaimer: Due to reported instability with Intel’s 13th/14th Gen CPUs, we advise considering alternative processors

Intel Workstation

Rocket Lake-S: Xeon W-1370(P) or higher
Sapphire Rapids-WD: Xeon w3  2435 or higher

Intel Server

Not recommended

Motherboard

Intel FHF Expert W790 Chipset

Network

2x 1-GBit network ports

(if only one port on mainboard, use PCI card for second port)

Video

BlackMagic DeckLink Mini Recorder 4K

USB

at least 4 ports: keyboard, mouse, serial connections to lens and IMU
(all need USB 2.0 or higher)

Miscellaneous

RAM >= 64 GB
SSD >= 128 GB

Operating system

Linux openSUSE 15.3 provided by TrackMen/Pixotope

TalenTrack - Certified Hardware

Lenovo P7 Workstation - needs to be configured via Lenovo with these components:

Graphics card

NVIDIA RTX 4070 (TI or TI Super), RTX 4080, RTX4090

Please note that other graphics cards or extremely new revisions of those listed here must be checked for individual driver requirements well in advance of any production use. Driver updates may not be available short-termed.

CPU

Intel® Xeon® W5-3425

Motherboard

Intel FHF Expert W790 Chipset

RAM

RAM: 4x 16 GB DDR5-4800MHz

SSD

512 GB SSD, M.2 2280, PCIe 4.0 Performance, TLC, OPAL 2.0

Ethernet

BCM5720 Dual-Port Ethernet-Adapter

Power Supply

TW_39L_1400W_92_VENTING_SP_WW

Video

BlackMagic DeckLink Mini Recorder 4K - add-on after purchase from Lenovo

Operating system

Linux openSUSE 15.3 provided by TrackMen/Pixotope

TalenTrack - Custom Configuration - Limited Support

Graphics card

Minimum RTX 4070 Ti
(alternatively RTX A5500, RTX A6000 or RTX 6000 Ada Generation)
with blower fan (radial) if used in a small case

CPU

Avoid CPUs with very high core count since clock speeds are usually lower.

“or higher” refers to CPUs in the same series only! A 13100 is not higher than a 12700!

AMD Desktop

Zen 3: Ryzen 7  5700X or higher
Zen 4: Ryzen 7  7700  or higher

AMD Workstation

Zen 3: Threadripper 5000 series

AMD Server

Not recommended

Intel Desktop

From 12th generation, E-cores must be disabled in BIOS

11th Generation:  Core i7  11700 or higher
12th Generation:  Core i7  12700 or higher
13th Generation:  Core i7  13700 or higher

Disclaimer: Due to reported instability with Intel’s 13th/14th Gen CPUs, we advise considering alternative processors

Intel Workstation

Rocket Lake-S: Xeon W-1370(P) or higher
Sapphire Rapids-WD: Xeon w5  2435 or higher

Intel Server

Not recommended

Motherboard

Intel FHF Expert W790 Chipset

Network

1x 1-GBit network port
1x 10-GBit network port

if only one port on mainboard, use PCI card for second port

1x 10-GBit Network Switch

Video

BlackMagic DeckLink Mini Recorder 4K

USB

at least 2 ports: keyboard, mouse
(all need USB 2.0 or higher)

Miscellaneous

RAM >= 64 GB
SSD >= 128 GB

Operating system

Linux openSUSE 15.3 provided by TrackMen/Pixotope

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