Lenovo ThinkStation P5 Gen 2
A 33-litre single-socket tower workstation built around Intel's Xeon 600 Series (LGA4710) platform and the W890 chipset, with room for up to two 300 W NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell workstation cards. Aimed at engineers and creators who need scalable single-socket performance.
Memory
- Slots
- 8 DDR5 DIMM, 4 channels
- Type
- DDR5-6400 RDIMM ECC, up to 6400 MT/s
- Max
- 1 TB (8 x 128 GB RDIMM)
- Protection
- ECC
Storage
- Max support
- 8 drives (HDD max: 4 x 3.5" HDD + 4 x M.2) or 11 drives (M.2 max: 3 x 3.5" HDD + 8 x M.2); 3.5" HDD up to 12 TB, M.2 SSD up to 4 TB
- 3.5" HDD
- SATA 6 Gb/s, 7.2K rpm, 2/4/10/12 TB
- M.2 SSD
- 2280, PCIe NVMe, PCIe 5.0 x4 (onboard, front-access or Quad M.2 adapter), 512 GB-4 TB, Opal 2.0 option
- Bays
- Up to 4 internal 3.5" bays: bay 1-2 standard; bay 3 optional (HDD bay kit or Dual Drive Internal Enclosure); bay 4 optional (Dual Drive Internal Enclosure, uses PCIe slots 4 and 5)
- M.2 slots
- Up to 8 x M.2 PCIe 5.0 x4: 2 onboard, 4 via Quad M.2-to-PCIe Gen 5 adapter, 2 via front-access M.2 bay
- Controllers
- Optional Broadcom RAID 940-8i (SAS 12 Gb/s / SATA 6 Gb/s, RAID 0/1/5, 4 GB DDR4 cache, SuperCap); onboard Intel RSTe SATA RAID 0/1/5/10; integrated NVMe controller; optional NVMe RAID Basic (0/1/10) or Premium (0/1/5/10)
- Card reader
- 13-in-1 or 15-in-1 card reader, or none
Graphics
- Top configuration
- Up to two NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition (300 W each)
- Cards offered
- RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q 96 GB (300 W, dual-slot); RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 72 GB (300 W, dual-slot); RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 48 GB (300 W, dual-slot); RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell 32 GB (200 W, dual-slot); RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell 24 GB (140 W, single-slot); RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell 16 GB (70 W, dual-slot); RTX A1000 8 GB (50 W, single-slot); RTX A400 4 GB (50 W, single-slot)
- Outputs
- 4 x DisplayPort 2.1 on RTX PRO 2000-6000; 4 x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a on RTX A400/A1000
- Monitor support
- Number of displays depends on the graphics card fitted
Expansion
- Slot 1
- PCIe 5.0 x16, full height, full length, 75 W, double-width, from CPU
- Slot 2
- PCIe 4.0 x4, full height, full length, 25 W, from PCH
- Slot 3
- PCIe 5.0 x16, full height, full length, 75 W, double-width, from CPU
- Slot 4
- PCIe 4.0 x4, full height, full length, 25 W, from CPU
- Slot 5
- PCIe 5.0 x8, full height, full length, 25 W, from CPU
- Slot 6
- PCIe 4.0 x4, full height, full length, 25 W, from PCH
Networking
- Onboard Ethernet
- 2.5 GbE, Intel Ethernet Connection I226-LM, 1 x RJ-45, Wake-on-LAN
- Optional Ethernet
- Up to two adapters, up to four extra 25 GbE ports: Intel I210-T1 (1 GbE x1); Intel I350-T4 (1 GbE x4); Realtek RTL8125BGS (2.5 GbE x1); Intel E610-XT4 (10 GbE x4); Intel E810-XXVDA2 (25 GbE x2, SFP28)
- WLAN + Bluetooth
- Optional Intel Wi-Fi 7 BE200, 802.11be 2x2 + Bluetooth 5.4, Intel vPro support, or none
Power
- PSU
- 750 W or 1000 W, fixed, 92% efficient, autosensing, 80 PLUS Platinum
Ports
- Front (fixed)
- 1 x headphone/microphone combo jack (3.5 mm)
- Front (optional)
- 2 x USB-C (10 Gbps); 2 x USB-A (10 Gbps, one Always On); 1 x card reader
- Rear (fixed)
- 1 x USB-C (10 Gbps); 1 x USB-C (20 Gbps / USB 3.2 Gen 2x2); 2 x USB-A (Hi-Speed USB 2.0); 2 x USB-A (10 Gbps); 1 x Ethernet (2.5 GbE RJ-45); 1 x line-in; 1 x line-out
- Rear (optional)
- 1 x serial (via cable) or 4 x serial (via PCIe x1 expansion card); 2 x PS/2 (via PCIe x1 adapter)
Physical
- Form factor
- Tower, 33 L
- Dimensions (W x D x H)
- 165 x 453.9 x 440 mm (6.5 x 17.9 x 17.3 in, with feet)
- Weight
- 19 kg (41.9 lb) maximum configuration
- Serviceability
- Tool-less side cover, memory, 3.5" HDD and PCIe card removal
- Security
- Discrete TPM 2.0 (TCG, FIPS 140-2 certified); chassis intrusion switch; Kensington Security Slot (3 x 7 mm); optional access-panel lock kit (common or unique key); BIOS admin/power-on password, UEFI Secure Boot, self-healing BIOS
- Operating temperature
- 10-35 degC (50-95 degF)
- Storage temperature
- -40-60 degC (-40-140 degF)
- Altitude
- Operating 0-3048 m; storage 0-12192 m
- Humidity
- Operating 20-80%; storage 10-90%
Management
- Remote management
- Optional Aspeed AST2600 graphics/management processor, IPMI 2.0-compliant BMC; Intel vPro Enterprise with Intel AMT 16
- Diagnostics
- Front diagnostic panel with QR code
Operating systems
- Preloads
- Windows 11 Pro for Workstations; Ubuntu Linux LTS
- Certified
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 (certified only)
Processors
- Intel Xeon 634
- Intel Xeon 636
- Intel Xeon 638
- Intel Xeon 654
- Intel Xeon 656
- Intel Xeon 658X
- Intel Xeon 674X
- Intel Xeon 676X
- Intel Xeon 678X