Lenovo's next flagship workstation will ship with Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux validated out of the box, putting AMD's 16-core Ryzen 9 PRO 9965X3D and Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell inside a single 30-liter tower. The ThinkStation P4 is built around AMD's new PRO 675 chipset and targets the kind of local AI, simulation, and rendering work that has been migrating off cloud GPUs.
The top CPU option is the Ryzen 9 PRO 9965X3D, a 16-core, 5.5 GHz part with AMD's 3D V-Cache, and Lenovo is offering liquid cooling on configurations that push CPU power up to 170 W. Memory tops out at 256 GB of DDR5-6400 across four DIMM slots, with storage scaling to 48 TB through a mix of M.2 and 3.5-inch bays. On the graphics side, the chassis can host an Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell with 96 GB of VRAM, fed by either a 500 W, 750 W, or 1,100 W power supply depending on the GPU choice.
For Linux users, the more interesting detail is the support posture. Lenovo lists Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux as first-class operating systems alongside Windows 11 Pro, which means working drivers, firmware updates through fwupd, and certified hardware combinations rather than the usual hunt for compatible NICs and storage controllers. Nvidia made open kernel modules mandatory for the entire Blackwell architecture, so the RTX Pro 6000 requires them rather than offering them as an opt-in, a structural shift from previous Nvidia GPU generations. The community has already moved quickly on documentation, with Level1Techs hosting a step-by-step Ubuntu 24.04 setup guide for the RTX Pro 6000, and a GitHub repository covering multi-GPU vLLM inference with CUDA 12.8 for anyone building a local inference stack. Combined with AMD's mature Linux support for Ryzen, this is a workstation that can run a serious LLM stack or a Blender render farm without dropping out of a Linux environment.
Lenovo plans to ship the ThinkStation P4 in June 2026. Pricing has not been announced, though the RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell alone carries a four-figure price tag at retail, which sets a baseline for what a fully loaded configuration will look like.
