Lenovo ThinkStation P920, ThinkStation P720, ThinkStation P520, ThinkStation P520C, ThinkStation P330 RTX GPU Support Matrix [en, ar, bg, cs, da, de, el, es, es, fi, fr, he, hr, hu, it, ja, ko, nb, nl, pl, pt, pt, ro, ru, sh, sk, sl, sr, sv, th, tr, uk, zc, zh]
LENOVO T HINKSTATION
THINKSTATION
P920/P720/P520/P520C/P330
SUPPORT FOR NVIDIA RTX GPUS
Contents
OVERVIEW
SECTION 1 – RTX GPU OVERVIEW
SECTION 2 – THINKSTATION SUPPORT FOR RTX GPUS
SECTION 3 – APPENDIX
SECTION 4 – DOCUMENT REVISION HISTORY
Overview
One of the key differentiators for workstation class systems is the ability to support
high end graphics cards. In recent years, there has been a significantly increased
focus on adding more computational power to discrete graphics processing units
(GPUs). As such, workstation design has had to evolve as well to keep up with
the ever increasing power and thermal requirements of these devices.
The purpose of this document is to highlight some of the details of Nvidia’s newest
class of GPUs known as RTX (or “Turing” Architecture) and define the level of
support for them within the current ThinkStation product lineup. The P920, P720,
P520, P520c, and P330 platforms all have some level of support for RTX GPUs,
but the level of support for each specific card and number of cards will vary by
platform.
Section 1 – RTX GPU Overview
The launch of Nvidia’s RTX platform based on the Turing Architecture brings with
it support for 4 core technologies:
Ray Tracing – ability to render photorealistic objects in real time using RT
cores
Artificial Intelligence – compute intensive workloads that can benefit from
Tensor Cores.
Rasterization – improvements in the overall graphics pipeline
Simulation – compute intensive workloads that can benefit from CUDA
cores.
More detail can be found about the RTX platform and each of these core
technologies on Nvidia’s website.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/design-visualization/technologies/rtx/
RTX 8000
RTX 6000
RTX 5000
RTX 4000
RTX 2080
RTX 2070
GPU
TU102
TU102
TU104
TU104
TU104
TU106
RT Cores
72
72
48
36
46
36
TDP
295W
295W
230W
160W
215W
175W
Connectors
1 x 6
-
pin
1 x 6
-
pin
1 x 6
-
pin
1 x 6
-
pin
Section 2 – ThinkStation Support for RTX GPUs
The current mainstream ThinkStation product lineup will have some level of
support for specific RTX GPUs. The type and number of GPUs that can be
supported will obviously vary by platform, so it is critical for ThinkStation customers
that wish to utilize the RTX platform to understand the specific level of RTX support
for each ThinkStation system.
Figure 1 shows a list of the various RTX GPUs that can be supported within
ThinkStation systems.
Figure 1 - List of supported RTX GPUs
Card Class Quadro
(Enterprise)
Memory 48GB
GDDR6
CUDA
Cores
Tensor
Cores
Power
Outputs 4 x DP
4608 4608 3072 2304 2944 2304
576 576 384 288 368 288
1 x 8-pin +
1 x USB-C
(Virtual
Link)
Quadro
(Enterprise)
24GB
GDDR6
1 x 8-pin +
4 x DP
1 x USB-C
(Virtual
Link)
Quadro
(Enterprise)
16GB
GDDR6
1 x 8-pin +
4 x DP
1 x USB-C
(Virtual
Link)
Quadro
(Enterprise)
8GB
GDDR6
1 x 8-pin 1 x 8-pin +
3 x DP
1 x USB-C
(Virtual
Link)
GeForce
(Consumer)
8GB GDDR6 8GB
1 x HDMI
3 x DP
1 x USB-C
GeForce
(Consumer)
GDDR6
1 x 8-pin
1 x HDMI
2 x DP
1 x USB-C
(Virtual
Link)
1 x DVI-DL
Specifications stated above are based on the Nvidia Reference Specs. Not
all versions of a given GPU may have the same power requirements or
outputs.
RTX 8000
RTX 6000
RTX 5000
RTX 4000
RTX 2080
RTX 2070
P920
Up to
2
Up to 2
Up to 3
Up to 3
Up to 2
Up to 3
P720
– 900W
Up to 1
Up to 1
Up to 1
Up to 2
Up to 1
Up to 2
P720
– 690W
0
0
0
Up to 1
0
Up to 1
P520
– 900W
Up to 1
Up to 1
Up to 1
Up to 2
Up to 1
Up to 1
P520
– 690W
0
0
Up to 1
Up to 2
Up to 1
Up to
2
P520c
–
500W
0
0
0
Up to 1
0
0
400W
Figure 2 below shows the type and quantity of RTX GPUs that are supported on
each of the ThinkStation platforms across the current product lineup (P920, P720,
P520, P520c, and P330 Tower). For the P920 this chart assumes that the system
is using a power connection that supplies 115-240V.
Figure 2 - Table of RTX GPU Support
P330 Tower –
(1)
0 0 0 Up to 1 Up to 1
(1)
(2)
(3)
(1)
(4) (5)
Up to 1
Graphics cards ordered from Lenovo will include the required power cable splitters
or adapters. Graphics cards of the same name ordered from another vendor may
need additional power cables. Verify the power port needs of any card before
ordering cables.
Note 1 – If dual cards are installed in the system the configuration will require 1 x
8-pin 6-pin + 6-pin splitter (250mm, female to male, FRU 01YW383).
Note 2 – Requires 2 (1 per card) x 8-pin 6-pin + 8-pin splitter (90mm, female to
male, FRU 01YW382) for the first 2 GPUs. A 3rd GPU can connect using existing
cabling.
(5)
Note 3 – Requires 1 x 6-pin 8-pin adapter (100mm, female to male, FRU
00XL159).
Note 4 – Requires 1 x 8-pin 6-pin + 8-pin splitter (90mm, female to male, FRU
01YW382).
Note 5 – This card is only supported in the P330 Tower with a 400W power supply
unit (PSU) and with the use of a CPU rated at 83W or less.
Section 5 – Appendix
This section contains additional useful information about the hardware used to
power adapter cards in ThinkStation systems.
STANDARD PCIE POWER CONNECTORS
6-pin PCIe Power Connector 6+2 pin (8-pin) PCIe Power Connector
SUPPORTED PCIE POWER CABLE ADAPTERS
FRU 01YW383FRU 01YW382
8-pin 6-pin + 6-pin splitter, 250mm, 8-pin 6-pin + 8-pin splitter, 90mm,
female to male female to male
FRU 00XL159
6-pin 8-pin Adapter 100mm,
Female to male
Version
Date
Author
Changes/Updates
1.0 4/18/2018
Cory
Chapman
Initial release
PN info and images for the
cables
Section 6 – Revision History
1.1 10/31/19 Scott Crowe Updated info in Sec 2 Fig 2 on RTX
2070 support for the P520c as well as
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