Which of the following components would MAXIMIZE I/O performance of a graphic design workstation?

A high-performance GPU accelerates rendering and display output but does not improve storage I/O throughput for reading and writing large design files.

Maximum RAM reduces the need to swap data to disk but is classified as memory capacity improvement, not a direct I/O performance component.

Graphic design workstations constantly read and write large files such as high-resolution images and layered project files, making storage I/O the dominant performance bottleneck. SSDs eliminate the mechanical seek latency of traditional hard drives and deliver dramatically higher sequential and random read/write speeds. Replacing or upgrading to an SSD directly addresses the I/O subsystem and provides the greatest measurable performance gain for file-intensive workloads.

A multicore CPU improves parallel processing and computation speed but does not directly address the storage input/output pipeline.