Lenovo Malaysia announced the launch of the ThinkStation P8, a powerful workstation designed to empower Malaysian businesses and professionals to explore the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Building on the success of the award-winning ThinkStation P620, the new ThinkStation P8 features the AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO 7000 WX-Series processors, delivering unparalleled performance, reliability, and flexibility for those who demand the best from their workstations.
This launch represents a significant step forward, not just in terms of raw performance, but also in democratizing access to cutting-edge AI hardware. Aligned with the Malaysian government’s national AI Roadmap, the ThinkStation P8 enables enterprises across the nation to bridge their hardware gaps and unlock AI’s full potential. With an optimized thermal design inspired by Aston Martin, the ThinkStation P8 combines Lenovo’s legendary reliability and innovation with breakthrough compute architecture from AMD and NVIDIA.
The ThinkStation P8 goes beyond being a powerful workstation; it’s a strategic investment for businesses serious about AI adoption. Professionals in fields such as architecture, engineering, media and entertainment, healthcare, education, and research know that a powerful and reliable workstation is critical to business success and AI adoption. Handling complex and demanding tasks, from data-intensive workstreams to real-time graphics applications or AI model development, is part and parcel of these industries. Users depend on highly configurable cutting-edge workstation solutions that empower them to push the limits of productivity, creativity, and innovation. Its enhanced thermal design, developed in cooperation with Aston Martin, allows users to push powerful AMD CPUs and NVIDIA RTX professional graphics cards options faster and for longer, making the P8 ideal for breezing through the most complex workstreams.
Powered by the latest AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 WX-Series processors built on the leading 5nm “Zen 4” architecture and featuring up to 96 cores and 192 threads, the Lenovo ThinkStation P8 thrives in high-intensity environments such as building information modeling (BIM) workflows, software development projects, or product lifecycle management. The new sleek and sturdy rack-optimized chassis offers larger Platinum-rated power supply options to handle more demanding expansion capabilities. For example, it can support up to three NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation GPUs to help reduce time to completion in graphics-intensive applications like real-time ray tracing or video rendering, simulation, or computer-aided design. The combined power also opens up new realms of immersive environments including digital worlds, AR/VR content creation, and advanced AI model development.
While powerful hardware like the ThinkStation P8 plays a crucial role, robust AI adoption also requires a strong foundation. The Malaysian government’s “AI For Rakyat” initiative acknowledges this need, focusing not just on software and skills development but also on fostering an environment conducive to AI growth. The ThinkStation P8 addresses a key aspect of this vision: providing access to powerful hardware that can handle demanding AI workloads. This, coupled with initiatives like “AI For Rakyat,” empowers Malaysia to take a significant leap forward in its AI journey.
The evolution of workflows associated with data science and generative AI is becoming increasingly reliant on powerful CPU and GPU components. As datasets grow in size and complexity, AI professionals must balance workflow agility, time to insight, and expense efficiencies of cloud solutions, which are often cost-prohibitive at scale. Security and data governance are also concerns driving the need for more powerful compute in the hands of high-value AI-focused employees.
Lenovo workstations excel at tasks such as AI data preparation, data cleansing, data visualization, model selection, model scoring, model training, and fine-tuning, which can occupy a significant portion of a data scientist’s workflow. Large language models (LLMs) require powerful NVIDIA GPUs for training and tuning on owned data in the enterprise. The latest CPUs and AI-optimized NVIDIA GPUs feature throughout Lenovo’s ThinkStation and ThinkPad™ workstation portfolio, and NVIDIA AI Enterprise, an end-to-end software platform for production AI, allows organizations to work on their own data in a secure sandbox personal supercomputing environment.
In addition to AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 WX-Series processors and NVIDIA RTX Ada Generation GPUs, the ThinkStation P8 includes ISV certifications and supports Windows 11 and popular Linux® operating systems. It features a range of storage and expansion capabilities that provide flexible and tailored configurations. Highly customizable options allow users to select the best components to handle complex and demanding tasks with ease and efficiency. Furthermore, easy access and tool-less serviceability provide future-proof scalability and quick replacement of many components.
The P8 workstation can accommodate up to seven M.2 PCIe Gen 4 SSDs with RAID support, or up to three HDDs for large capacity storage, up to 2TB of DDR5 memory with octa-channel support, and seven PCIe slots including six PCI Gen5 that deliver higher speed connectivity, lower latency, and more expansion capability. It includes 10 Gigabit Ethernet onboard to virtually eliminate network bottlenecks.
ThinkStation P8, like all Lenovo desktop workstations, includes built-in hardware monitoring accessible through ThinkStation Diagnostics software, and Lenovo Performance Tuner comes with numerous profiles to optimize many ISV applications. ThinkStation P8 also supports Lenovo’s ThinkShield™ security offerings, which provide comprehensive protection from BIOS to cloud. Furthermore, rigorous testing standards, Premier Support, and extended warranty options deliver customers the confidence that the workstation will work reliably and safeguard their investment. That investment can be further managed through Lenovo TruScale™, which simplifies procurement, deployment, and management of fully integrated IT solutions, all delivered as a service with the simplicity of a scalable, pay-as-you-go model.
The ThinkStation P8 powered by AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO WX-Series Processors and NVIDIA RTX graphics cards is available in Malaysia at a starting price of RM16,429.10. For more information, please visit the Lenovo Malaysia website.