Lenovo ThinkStation P300 Workstation Review: Haswell plus Quadro
by Ian Cutress on November 4, 2014 10:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Professional Performance
Due to the market positioning of the ThinkStation P300 as an entry level workstation with a Quadro professional graphics card, it makes sense to compare the system with industry-standard benchmarks and the other entry level workstations we have previously tested where possible. Benchmarks in this instance come from SPECviewPerf 11, a well-known multi-software test, SYSMark from BAPCo that is used by several industries for comparison, and Linux-Bench for some more scientific and synthetic analysis.
SPECviewPerf 11
SPECviewperf performance for the P300 is great across the board.
SYSMark 2013
Linux-Bench: link
Built around several freely available benchmarks for Linux, Linux-Bench is a project spearheaded by Patrick at ServeTheHome to streamline about a dozen of these tests in a single neat package run via a set of three commands using an Ubuntu 11.04 LiveCD. These tests include fluid dynamics used by NASA, ray-tracing, OpenSSL, molecular modeling, and a scalable data structure server for web deployments. We run Linux-Bench and have chosen to report a select few of the tests that rely on CPU and DRAM speed.
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MadDuffy - Tuesday, November 4, 2014 - link
IBM doesn't have anything to do with this. We are coming up on a DECADE since that unit was sold to Lenovo.hojnikb - Tuesday, November 4, 2014 - link
Thats why you build your own workstation and get exactly what you need :)duploxxx - Tuesday, November 4, 2014 - link
nothing wrong with 8GB ram on a base model with a 4core cpu and a generic HD. you need to see specs in perspective.although 1 * 8 i would prefer 2 * 4
tyger11 - Tuesday, November 4, 2014 - link
Who is this 'IBM' of which you speak? :)retrospooty - Tuesday, November 4, 2014 - link
The P300 is the low end of the workstation lineup. The P500,700,900 are all above it. http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/workstations/thinksta...mdrury - Monday, November 10, 2014 - link
Just FYI - IBM sold it's PC division to Lenovo in 2005, and is currently in the midst of selling off it's X86-based server division (System X) to Lenovo as well. So curse (or praise) the Chinese company called Lenovo, not IBM. :-)satai - Tuesday, November 4, 2014 - link
Hard Drive Seagate 1TB 7200RPM SSHD. o'rly?jabber - Tuesday, November 4, 2014 - link
I love Xeon based workstations. You can usually pick them up for peanuts on Ebay 3-4 years later, upgrade them to top spec for peanuts too and still have a high performance machine.I got a dual Xeon workstation from 2008 that will Wprime in 7 seconds for less than half the price of a bottom of the range 2014 spec Pentium desktop.
hojnikb - Tuesday, November 4, 2014 - link
So bulk of your workload is calculating prime numbers ?jabber - Tuesday, November 4, 2014 - link
Yes...it's my life.