It has been a few months since Lenovo announced the successor to the original ThinkStation P5, which is currently available for $1745 as a refurbished version. The ThinkStation P5 Gen 2, unveiled in March, features support for up to two graphics cards and up to 1 TB of DDR5-6400 RAM across eight DIMM slots operating in a quad-channel configuration.

Furthermore, Lenovo equips its new desktop with options from Intel’s Granite Rapids family Xeon 600 processors. Most markets have received the Xeon 634, Xeon 636, Xeon 638, Xeon 654, Xeon 656, Xeon 658X, Xeon 674X, Xeon 676X, and Xeon 678X processors, ranging from 12 cores and 24 threads to 48 cores and 96 threads in the case of the Xeon 678X processor.

In addition, the ThinkStation P5 Gen 2 can be configured with a range of professional graphics cards up to the Nvidia RTX Pro 5000 Blackwell with 72GB of GDDR7 VRAM. According to PSREF, the RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Max-Q with 96GB of VRAM mentioned in the March announcement is also still available. Moreover, the desktop computer has ample space for eight M.2 SSD drives and three 3.5-inch or four 2.5-inch hard drives.

The price of the ThinkStation P5 Gen 2 starts at $5999 in the US market. At the same time, Lenovo has set a minimum price of AUD 6079 in Australia and HKD 35964 in Hong Kong. It ranges from €3839 to €4264 in the eurozone and £3630 in the UK. However, users can easily configure the ThinkStation P5 Gen 2