Today on Tech Check: Lenovo’s luxurious new desktops, Dell’s premium 16-inch laptop, and NVIDIA’s tiny new graphics card is big where it counts.
For more information on these three devices, read the accompanying article: Tech Check: Aston Martin Made a ThinkStation.
Video transcript:
Today on Tech Check, Lenovo’s luxurious new desktops, Dell’s premium 16-inch laptop, and NVIDIA’s tiny new graphics card is big where it counts.
Lenovo’s got three new desktop workstations, and if they look a little extra classy it’s because they were co-designed by luxury car maker Aston Martin. The ThinkStation P10, P7 and P5 aren’t just easy on the eyes, they’re the most advanced desktop workstations Lenovo says its ever built.
The top-of-the-line ThinkStation P10 is powered by dual Intel Xeon Scalable processors and up to four NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation graphics cards. The P7 and P5 use Xeon W series processors and support up to three and two graphic cards respectively.
The new ThinkStations are designed to be easily serviced by end users and to fit just as well in the data center as they do on the desktop. Lenovo hasn’t released pricing yet, but the company says the new workstations will be available starting in May.
There’s a new 16-inch mobile workstation in town, and Dell says it’s the one the beat. The new Precision 5680 is the latest and largest addition to Dell’s Precision 5000 series of premium, thin-and-light mobile workstations.
The new laptop weighs in at just four and a half pounds with what Dell says is the “the smallest footprint in the world for a 16-inch workstation.” It has a 16:10 aspect ratio with up to a 4K touch display.
Powered by 13th-gen Intel processors and the newly announced NVIDIA RTX Ada Generation laptop GPUs, the Precision 5680 will be available on May 18, 2023, with a starting price yet to be announced.
Nvidia’s got a new graphics card, and you may have to squint to see it. The RTX 4000 small form factor, or SFF, is a low profile graphics card that NVIDIA says will provide a new level of performance for ultra-compact desktop workstations.
The new GPU is a dual-slot, 70W graphics card that NVIDIA says provides twice the performance of the company’s previous SFF offering. The new RTX 4000 is built on NVIDIA’s most recent GPU microarchitecture, Ada Lovelace, and it has 20 GB of ECC memory.
The tiny new graphics card will be available starting in April with an estimated price tag of $1,250.
