Advanced Technologies

ThinkStation Workstations

ThinkStation Workstations

NVIDIA and Lenovo Workstation Solutions

Lenovo ThinkStation workstations featuring NVIDIA® Quadro® professional graphics and Tesla™ high-performance computing solutions provide a powerful, versatile solution engineered to meet the graphics and high-performance computing demands of professional users. Working together, Lenovo integrates Quadro® and Tesla™ solutions to ensure optimized system performance.

Revolutionary Visual Computing Solutions
A revolutionary unified architecture, NVIDIA Quadro® professional graphics solutions deliver optimized application performance. Combining the most advanced feature set, including largest frame buffers and a C programming environment, Quadro® solutions solve the most complex challenges. NVIDIA Quadro® professional solutions deliver the fastest application performance, the highest quality workstation graphics, and are certified on all industry-leading professional applications. NVIDIA Quadro® takes the leading computer-aided design (CAD), digital content creation (DCC), and visualization applications to a new level of interactivity by enabling unprecedented capabilities in performance, programmability, and precision.

Key Elements:

  • NVIDIA Unified architecture delivers optimized GPU performance.
  • Reference standard for shader model 4.0.
  • Flexible platform that can be paired with best-of-class industry solutions.
  • C Programming Environment for the GPU.

GPU Computing Solutions for HPC
Tesla™ GPU computing solutions solve the world's most important challenges by advancing high-performance computing (HPC) with a massively multi-threaded architecture. With up to 240 cores of computing power per GPU, C programming language development environment for the GPU, suite of developer tools (C compiler, debugger, performance profiler, optimized libraries), and the world's largest GPU computing ISV development community, Tesla™ allows you to develop applications faster and to deploy them across multiple generations of processors. Tesla™ GPU computing solutions also can be used in tandem with multi-core CPU systems to create a scalable computing solution that fits seamlessly into existing workstation or IT infrastructures.

Key Elements:

  • Industry's first massively multi-threaded architecture with a 128-processor computing core.
  • World's only C-language development environment for the GPU.
  • A suite of developer tools (C-compiler, debugger, performance profiler, optimized libraries).
  • Largest ISV development community for GPU Computing applications.
  • Seamlessly able to fit into existing HPC environments.

ATI and Lenovo Workstation Solutions

ThinkStation S20 and D20 models now offer select ATI FirePro™ graphics adapters.

ATI FirePro™
The new ATI FirePro™ 3D workstation graphics cards combine a new ATI OpenGL optimized driver with the award-winning ATI FireGL graphics technology, delivering a new level of graphics performance and reliability for professional 3D graphics users. Ideal for computer-aided design (CAD), digital content creation (DCC) and more.

Key Elements:

  • DisplayPort output for superior 30-bit image quality.
  • Scalable ultra parallel processing architecture with 320 unified shaders.
  • AutoDetect instinctively optimizes performance for multi-application workflow.
  • Dual-link DVI output for driving ultra-high-resolution widescreen monitors.
  • High dynamic range (HDR) rendering with 8-bit, 10-bit, and 16-bit per RGB color component support.
  • Hardware acceleration of DirectX® 10.1 and OpenGL® 2.1 advanced features.
  • Optimized and certified for many CAD and DCC applications.
  • PCI Express 2.0 compliant.

Available graphics solutions

Models
  • Supported Graphics cards*
    *Mixing ATI and NVIDIA cards is not supported
ThinkStation E20  
  • Professional integrated graphics with Intel® Pentium®, Intel Core™ i3 and Intel Core i5
  • NVIDIA Quadro NVS295
  • NVIDIA Quadro NVS450
  • NVIDIA Quadro FX380
  • NVIDIA Quadro FX580
  • NVIDIA Quadro FX1800
ThinkStation S20/D20
  • NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290
  • NVIDIA Quadro NVS 295
  • NVIDIA Quadro FX 380
  • NVIDIA Quadro FX 580
  • NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800
  • NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800
  • NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800

  • ATI FirePro V3700
  • ATI FirePro V5700
  • ATI FirePro V7750