The workstation line of technologies from Lenovo has been enormously successful for the company. While ThinkStation might not have as much brand identity as the more identifiable ThinkPad, for the shops that wanted them Lenovo's ThinkStation range has been at the front of extraordinary performance under-the-desk presents since 2008. Lenovo has absorbed on everything from small form factor entry ThinkStation schemes, all the way up to high-end dual hole P-series tower schemes. The system we are revising today really marks a serious milestone for the ThinkStation business; the ThinkStation P620 is Lenovo's first AMD workstation system, and it arises in to replace the whole range of Intel-based high-performance ThinkStations formerly offered.
As mentioned, Lenovo happening the ThinkStation line in 2008. At the time the first two accessible choices were a mid-range tower system using a Core 2 Quad processor, and a dual-socket tower built on dual Xeon E5000 processors for high-performance. Over the years, ThinkStation has prolonged into the low end Xeon E3/Xeon E markets, and presented small form factor systems around smaller 35 W processors, but still preserved up with the best tower and dual socket designs.
The last update to these higher performance possibilities were in 2017. At the time, single plug designs from the P520 were extra mid-range, using Intel's Xeon W platform on the LGA2066 desktop socket with only four retention channels but with Pro-level topographies. The P720 and P920 tackled the high-performance using the dual-processor Intel Xeon Scalable platform, giving six memory channels per CPU, with the P920 proposing the higher power models with its better cooling design. Since 2017, aside from moving from Sky lake to Cascade Lake, and offering fresher graphics options, the P520, P720 and P920, have remained static in Lenovo's offering.
The ThinkStation P620 is the first AMD system that Lenovo has ever presented with ThinkStation. Built on Threadripper Pro, it forms a replacement 600-series within the line-up. From the requirement sheet it surely offers performance above and beyond the P500 series, and debatably above the P700 and P900 as well, but it is still a single socket, which is why it is '600' rather than whatever higher.
Reasons, why Lenovo has jumped on the AMD bandwagon for Thread ripper Pro, are likely abundant, and some of them are obvious - as we've showcased previously in reviews of the Thread ripper 3990X and EPYC 7742, AMD's 64-core offerings at 280 W mean lots of presentation, and the Pro side enables over standard Thread ripper with 8x memory support, ECC memory, double the PCIe lanes, and Pro-level administration skills. At a time when Intel's presenting in this space have suggestively stagnated, AMD has somewhat what Lenovo's customers want.