Lenovo’s Latest ThinkStation Is A Diminutive Workhorse

Lenovo ThinkStation P360 Ultra is the fruit of Lenovo’s collaboration with NVIDIA. You can customize the PC with one of NVIDIA’s graphics cards, including up to an NVIDIA RTX A5000 mobile with 16GB of VRAM or an NVIDIA RTX A2000 with 12GB of VRAM. However, to fit such a powerful GPU inside a small chassis and not have it overheat, Lenovo and NVIDIA had to get creative about the thermals and the fit. As a result, we expect the temperatures to be kept at bay in this workstation, and that’s crucial for such a small PC with so little natural airflow.

The P360 Ultra also comes decked out with a 12th-Gen Intel Core processor and can be configured to include an up to Core i9 with 16 cores and a clock speed of 5.2GHz. Installing the CPU inside the small chassis also required some creativity and collaboration between the two manufacturers, resulting in the use of a dual-sided motherboard for increased airflow. Upgrading to an Alder Lake (12th-Gen Intel) processor also marks an important step in terms of memory — the P360 Ultra supports the latest DDR5 RAM. Users will be able to get up to 128GB of DDR5 memory. Despite DDR5 RAM, the P360 Ultra still sticks to PCIe Gen 4, and offers two slots that amount to an up to 8TB of M.2 storage. There’s also a 2.5-inch SATA slot for an additional 1TB of storage.