Lenovo ThinkStation PX

Lenovo's flagship dual-socket tower workstation (also sold as a 5U rack), built on the Intel C741 chipset with room for two 4th/5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, up to 2 TB of 16-channel DDR5 and up to four double-width professional GPUs. Aimed at the heaviest rendering, simulation, AI-training and data-centre-adjacent workloads Lenovo sells a desktop workstation for.

Memory

Slots

16 DDR5 DIMM slots, 16 channels capable (8 DIMM slots with 8 channels per processor)

Type

DDR5-4800 3DS-RDIMM ECC; DDR5-4800 RDIMM ECC; DDR5-5600 RDIMM ECC (CPU dependent)

Max

Up to 2 TB (16 x 128 GB RDIMM and dual processor)

Protection

ECC

Storage

Max support

Up to seven drives (4 x 3.5" SATA HDD + 3 x M.2 SSD) or nine drives (2 x 3.5" SATA HDD + 7 x M.2 SSD); 3.5" HDD supports hot-swap, up to 12 TB each; M.2 SSD up to 4 TB each

3.5" HDD

SATA 6 Gb/s, 7.2K rpm, 2/4/6/8/10/12 TB

M.2 SSD

M.2 2280, PCIe NVMe (PCIe 4.0 x4 Performance), 512 GB/1 TB/2 TB/4 TB, Opal 2.0 option

Controllers

Onboard Intel RSTe SATA RAID (0/1/10/5); integrated NVMe controller (no RAID); optional NVMe Basic (0/1/10) or NVMe Premium (0/1/10/5)

Card reader

No card reader

Graphics

Top configuration

Up to four NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition (300 W); or up to four NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation

Cards offered (Blackwell)

RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q 96 GB GDDR7 (300 W, dual-slot, 4x DP 2.1); RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 72 GB GDDR7 (300 W, dual-slot); RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 48 GB GDDR7 (300 W, dual-slot); RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell 32 GB GDDR7 (200 W, dual-slot); RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell 24 GB GDDR7 (140 W, single-slot); RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell 16 GB GDDR7 (70 W, dual-slot, 4x miniDP 2.1)

Cards offered (Ada)

RTX 6000 Ada Generation 48 GB (300 W, dual-slot, 4x DP 1.4a); RTX A6000 48 GB (300 W, dual-slot, NVLink); RTX 5000 Ada Generation 32 GB (250 W, dual-slot); RTX 4500 Ada Generation 24 GB (210 W, dual-slot); RTX 4000 Ada Generation 20 GB (130 W, single-slot); RTX 2000 Ada Generation 16 GB (70 W, dual-slot, 4x miniDP 1.4a)

Cards offered (entry / Ampere)

T1000 8 GB (50 W, single-slot); T400 4 GB (40 W, single-slot, 3x miniDP); RTX A5500 24 GB (230 W, dual-slot, NVLink); RTX A5000 24 GB (230 W, dual-slot); RTX A4500 20 GB (200 W, dual-slot, NVLink); RTX A4000 16 GB (140 W, single-slot); RTX A2000 12 GB (70 W, dual-slot); RTX A1000 8 GB (50 W, single-slot); RTX A400 4 GB (50 W, single-slot)

Monitor support

Supports multiple displays via discrete graphics; maximum number of monitors depends on the graphics card fitted

Expansion

Slot 1

PCIe 4.0 x16, full height, full length, 75 W, by CPU 2

Slot 2

PCIe 4.0 x16, full height, full length, 75 W, by CPU 2

Slot 3

PCIe 5.0 x16, full height, full length, 75 W, by CPU 2

Slot 4

PCIe 5.0 x16, full height, full length, 75 W, by CPU 2

Slot 5

PCIe 4.0 x8, full height, full length, 25 W, by CPU 2

Slot 6

PCIe 5.0 x16, full height, full length, 75 W, by CPU 1

Slot 7

PCIe 4.0 x16, full height, full length, 75 W, by CPU 1

Slot 8

PCIe 5.0 x16, full height, full length, 75 W, by CPU 1

Slot 9

PCIe 4.0 x16, full height, full length, 75 W, by CPU 1

Networking

Onboard Ethernet

Two Ethernet, GbE + 10GbE: Intel Ethernet Connection I219-LM and Marvell AQtion AQC-113C, 2 x RJ-45, supports Wake-on-LAN

Optional Ethernet

Two additional adapters, up to four additional 25GbE ports: Intel I210-T1 (1 x RJ-45, PCIe x1); Intel I350-T2 (2 x RJ-45, PCIe x4); Intel I350-T4 (4 x RJ-45, PCIe x4); Broadcom BCM5719 (4 x RJ-45, PCIe x4); Broadcom BCM5720 (2 x RJ-45, PCIe x1); Realtek RTL8168H (1 x RJ-45, PCIe x1); NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX-6 (2 x SFP28 25GbE, PCIe x8)

WLAN + Bluetooth

Optional Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX210, 802.11ax 2x2 + Bluetooth 5.3, Intel vPro technology support; or none

Power

PSU

1850 W, hot-swap, 92% efficient, 80 PLUS Platinum; autosensing; up to two power supplies with team or redundant mode; up to 2350 W under team mode

Ports

Front (fixed)

1 x headphone/microphone combo jack (3.5 mm)

Front (optional)

2 x USB-C (10 Gbps / USB 3.2 Gen 2); 2 x USB-A (10 Gbps / USB 3.2 Gen 2, one Always On)

Rear (fixed)

1 x USB-C (20 Gbps / USB 3.2 Gen 2x2); 2 x USB-A (Hi-Speed USB / USB 2.0); 4 x USB-A (5 Gbps / USB 3.2 Gen 1); 1 x Ethernet (10GbE RJ-45); 1 x Ethernet (GbE RJ-45); 1 x line-in (3.5 mm); 1 x line-out (3.5 mm)

Rear (optional)

1 x Thunderbolt 4 (via additional PCIe adapter); 1 x serial (9-pin); 2 x PS/2

Physical

Form factor

Tower (54 L) or 5U rack; optional rack rail kit needed

Dimensions (W x D x H)

220 x 575 x 440.4 mm (8.7 x 22.6 x 17.3 in, with feet)

Weight

35.6 kg (78.5 lb) maximum configuration

Bays

Three front disk bays and one rear disk bay: front bay 1 = 1 x 3.5" hot-swap HDD (standard); front bay 2 = 1 x 3.5" hot-swap HDD (standard) or two M.2 SSD via optional front-access M.2 bay; front bay 3 = same as bay 2; rear bay = 1 x 3.5" hot-swap HDD (optional), occupies 1st PSU cage

M.2 slots

Up to 11 x M.2 SSD: 3 via onboard slots (PCIe 4.0 x4); 4 via front-access M.2 bay (PCIe 4.0 x4); 4 via Quad M.2-to-PCIe Gen 4 adapter

Serviceability

Tool-less design for side cover, memory, 3.5" HDD and PCIe card assembly/removal

Security

Discrete TPM 2.0 (TCG certified, FIPS 140-2 certified); chassis intrusion switch; Kensington Security Slot (3 x 7 mm); optional access-panel lock kit and front storage bay lock (common 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 (0-10,000 ft); storage 0-12192 m (0-40,000 ft)

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

ThinkStation Diagnostics; front diagnostic panel with QR code

Operating systems

Preloads

Windows 11 Pro for Workstations; Windows 11 downgrade to Windows 10 Pro 64 for Workstations; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 (certified); no preload

Processors

• Intel Xeon Silver 4510
• Intel Xeon Silver 4410T
• Intel Xeon Silver 4410Y
• Intel Xeon Silver 4416+
• Intel Xeon Gold 5416S
• Intel Xeon Gold 5418Y
• Intel Xeon Gold 5420+
• Intel Xeon Gold 5415+
• Intel Xeon Gold 6534
• Intel Xeon Gold 6544Y
• Intel Xeon Gold 6548Y+
• Intel Xeon Gold 6542Y
• Intel Xeon Gold 6526Y
• Intel Xeon Gold 6530
• Intel Xeon Gold 6444Y
• Intel Xeon Gold 6430
• Intel Xeon Gold 6438Y+
• Intel Xeon Gold 6442Y
• Intel Xeon Gold 6416H
• Intel Xeon Gold 6418H
• Intel Xeon Platinum 8592+
• Intel Xeon Platinum 8580
• Intel Xeon Platinum 8568Y+
• Intel Xeon Platinum 8570
• Intel Xeon Platinum 8452Y
• Intel Xeon Platinum 8460Y+
• Intel Xeon Platinum 8468
• Intel Xeon Platinum 8470
• Intel Xeon Platinum 8480+
• Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H