LENOVO THINKSTATION P8 TOWER

Not the fastest, but a great chassis design and capable performance for every content creation workload

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The design of Lenovo's ThinkStation P8 is inspired by Aston Martin cars

When we've reviewed Lenovo workstations in the past we've always been impressed by the design. This “Aston Martin-inspired” ThinkStation P8 Tower is no exception. What is exceptional is how well Lenovo has matched up the specifications to the brief we provided for this group test - previous systems have been more off-the-shelf - with this P8 sitting close to our £11,000 exc VAT ceiling.

Our sample system does suffer from having the now previous-generation AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7975WX CPU rather than the just-released 9975WX, but we're sure the latter will be made available once validated on this platform as BIOS compatibility should be all that is required. The 7975WX is a 32-core (64-thread) CPU with a 4GHz base clock and 5.3GHz boost frequency.

This is no different to the non-Pro version, but it offers more PCIe 5.0 lanes and an eight-channel memory controller, which will benefit performance in some areas. To take advantage of this, Lenovo supplied the P8 with a massive 512GB of 4,800MHz ECC DDR5 memory. This came as eight 64GB DIMMs taking up all the slots, but will you ever need more?