Lenovo released 3 new ones sink station Work station , PX is the highest model, a model that can take out two 4th generation units Intel Xeon Scalable CPU (previously sapphire rapids ). A pair of $17,000 Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H processors give the user access to his 120 cores (240 threads) and 225MB cache.
Another highlight of the new PX range is its ability to support four. NVIDIA RTX6000 Ada Lovelace GPU cards with 48 GB of memory each. This is ideal for traditional creative and data use cases (animation , Data visualization ,simulation, rendering and video editing )but also, VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) applications.
As expected, it can support up to 2TB DDR5 RAM (Registered ECC) and up to 9 storage drives (multiple combinations) SSD and HDD ). Not surprisingly, all of this requires hefty PSUs (the 1.85kW model comes bundled with optional redundancy). windows 11 pro A special edition of Windows 11 for Workstations is installed.
The next Bond will partner with Aston Martin? The dual socket machine comes with a rack-optimized 4U chassis. 42U rack Lenovo has partnered with Aston Martin (who happens to be one of their customers) for the design of these workstations.
Elsewhere, the P5 and P7 are single-socket models with fewer extensions. Like PX, they are also lacking thunderbolt 4 This can be a problem for creative professionals who want access to DAS (Direct-mount storage ) devices like External SSD From May 2023, three models will take over from the current P920, P720 and P520 series and are expected to offer significant performance improvements.
The Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 found in today’s P920 not only has less than half the cores of the 8490H, it’s almost four years old. But a fully loaded ThinkStation PX doesn’t come cheap. a P920 (opens in new tab) 1TB memory, a pair of Platinum 8280, two NVIDIA RTX A6000 Five 2TB SSDs cost around $90,000.
No EPYC or Threadripper Pro news yet All eyes are now on the follow-up to the award-winning ThinkStation P620. It currently has 64 cores. Threadripper Pro 5995WX , was released in July 2020 and has not yet been updated. Of particular note is the fact that several of Lenovo’s smaller rivals, including BroadBerry, ThinkMate, Supermicro, Velocity Micro, and AVADirect, are rolling out his EPYC-based workstations.
Current EPYC models continue to use PCIe 4.0 and DDR4.0, 4th Gen AMD Epyc The processors (Genoa, 9004 series) will become more widely available in the coming weeks, and workstations with 192 cores and 384 threads (two EPYC 9654s) are expected to hit the market soon.
