ThinkStation P3 Tiny: Lenovo previews new Gen 2 workstation with Intel Arrow Lake processors, Nvidia RTX GPUs and Linux support
Lenovo has quietly updated its ThinkStation P3 Tiny desktop with a second-generation model. To recap, the company unveiled its first generation variant in May 2023 (curr. $949.99 on Amazon). While relatively powerful at the time, its Intel Core i9-13900 processor and Nvidia T1000 graphics card have been surpassed by more powerful alternatives.
Fittingly, the ThinkStation P3 Tiny Gen 2 can be configured with significantly more powerful hardware than its predecessor. On the one hand, Lenovo has swapped Intel's Raptor Lake generation for Arrow Lake with a choice of almost a dozen processors. At the time of writing Lenovo's PSREF website lists options between the Core Ultra 5 225 and the Core Ultra 9 285, which all leverage Intel's LGA 1851 socket and support LPDDR5-6400 RAM.
On the other hand, the ThinkStation P3 Tiny Gen 2 will be configurable with Nvidia's RTX A400 or RTX A1000 laptop GPUs. Although both offer four miniDP 1.4a connectors, a single slot design and 50 W TGP, the latter has double the former's GDDR6 VRAM totalling 8 GB. Meanwhile, Lenovo has clarified that the desktop features a pair of CSODIMM slots, a PCIe 5.0 M.2 slot and another two M.2 slots that support up to PCIe 4.0 SSDs.
The ThinkStation P3 Tiny Gen 2 also comes with other ports like HDMI 2.1, USB Type-A, USB Type-C (20 Gbps) and Gigabit Ethernet. Of those six Type-A ports, five deliver up to 10 Gbps transfer speeds too. Incidentally, the new desktop supports Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 and Home or Pro versions of Windows 11. Lenovo suggests that the ThinkStation P3 Tiny Gen 2 should be available later this month in some markets. Pricing is unknown for now, but more details about the ThinkStation P3 Tiny Gen 2 can be found on its website.
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Lenovo via Liliputing
