![]() Granted, you could probably heat a single-family home while the two processors and two GPUs are being stressed, but that’s really only under artificial stress tests or rendering, not typical of normal work. Even under full load, the GPU fans barely sped up while maintaining full performance. Speaking of fans, in our extensive testing, this machine remained dead quiet. The whole thing is incredibly modular and almost everything that is user-serviceable or IT serviceable is toolless, including the entire PSU and the case fans. Also, easily accessible is the front FlexBays and space for different configurations of storage drives. The inside of the machine is well laid out, with easy access to the PCIe slots and DIMM slots for future upgrades and expansion. Also visible are its 8 PCIe slots and a punch-out where the optional serial port would go. It also hints at the performance this machine can put out where the two Quadro RTX 8000s are visible. The rear of the workstation is mostly ventilation (which it definitely needs) and an adequate amount of I/O. It’s understated and won’t make too much of a fuss at your workstation, other than its massive size. It is decidedly a Lenovo machine, with the tell-tale black with red highlights around the case. Made mostly of steel, it also weighs as much as a tank, too, with the heaviest configuration coming in at over 80lbs (>37kg). The Lenovo ThinkStation P920 is a tower form-factor workstation and it’s built like a tank. Serial, Parallel, USB, Audio, Network, Enable/Disable Port ControlĪlso, check out this handy PDF with the full configurable spec for the P920 as of June 2020 (it’s a lot we weren’t lying about how configurable it is). Intel I350-T2 Dual Port Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Intel I210-T1 Single Port Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Intel Wireless 8265 AC WIFI + Bluetooth 4.2 ![]() Max onboard M.2 = 2 (4TB) (up to 9 with PCIe adapter) Up to 12 total drives Up to 4 internal storage bays Up to 2TB DDR4 2933 MHz, 16 DIMMs (Supports both RDIMM and LRDIMM, Max 256GB DDR4 ECC 3DS-RDIMM) Windows 10 Pro for Workstations (upgradable via Microsoft) Up to Dual Intel Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze (up to 28 cores, up to 4.4 GHz per CPU) Lenovo ThinkStation P920 Tower Specifications Form factor This is a follow up review with this system, our first review of the P920 can be found here. In this review, we’ll be focusing on the media and content creation aspects of this machine, checking out Blender renders, Davinci Resolve performance with 8k RED footage, V-Ray, and others that are hopefully relevant to your work. The base configuration starts at $2,354.22 (as of August 2020, normal MSRP is $4,059 but goes on sale frequently), but you can easily check all the boxes and skyrocket past $50,000 if you really wanted to and let’s be honest, who doesn’t love messing with the online configurator to see how high you can go? Whatever your personal use case, these are available in made-to-order configurations. Use cases for this workstation range from architectural design, to CAD, to Hollywood-level VFX, or just editing high-resolution footage in 8K. ![]() If your workload is more CPU bound, Lenovo has you covered there as well, with support of up to two Xeon Platinum 8280’s, for 56-cores and 112-threads at 4.0GHz. With up to three NVIDIA Quadro GV100s, you have the most powerful GPUs NVIDIA makes for workloads that require extremely fast HBM2 memory or if your workload just needs a ton of GPU memory, you can get two NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000’s for a total of 96GBs of video memory over the included NVLink. The Lenovo ThinkStation P920 Workstation Tower is a beast and is highly configurable to put up big numbers and make quick work of many different types of workloads.
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