Lenovo ThinkCentre M90q Gen 6 2025, Core Ultra 5 235, 32GB, 1TB SSD, Black

The M90q Gen 6 crams a 14-core Core Ultra 5 235 and 32GB of DDR5-5600 into a 1.34kg box, with CPU and RAM rankings in the 78th and 83rd percentiles. But integrated graphics drag the gaming score down to 16.1 out of 100. It's a secure, vPro-ready office workhorse, not a gaming or creative machine.

The Core Ultra 5 235 is the star here. Fourteen cores at 3.4GHz base clock, paired with 32GB of 5600 MHz DDR5, means you can run a dozen browser tabs, a couple of virtual machines, and a video call without breaking a sweat. The CPU's 78th percentile ranking puts it well above average for desktops in our database, and the RAM's 83rd percentile means memory won't be your bottleneck anytime soon.

The 1TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD lands at the 72nd percentile, which is solid but not spectacular. Boot times and app launches will feel snappy, and the Opal 2.0 encryption is a nice touch for anyone handling sensitive data. The integrated GPU is the weak link. At the 51st percentile, it's about average for integrated graphics, but that still means no real gaming and limited GPU-accelerated workloads. For office tasks, it's plenty. For anything else, it's a hard stop.

Stacked against the competition, the M90q Gen 6 occupies a weird middle ground. The Apple Mac Studio M3 Ultra absolutely demolishes it on GPU performance and raw compute, but it's also a completely different price bracket and form factor. The HP OMEN GT16-0364 and ASUS ROG GM700 are gaming machines with dedicated GPUs that will run circles around the Lenovo in any graphics workload. The Dell Aurora Aurora Gaming and the Horizon Pcs Autherium Dragon are similarly GPU-focused. What the M90q Gen 6 offers that none of those do is a 1.34kg chassis with vPro Enterprise support and Opal-encrypted storage. If your priority is a secure, manageable fleet of office desktops, the Lenovo wins. If you want to play games or edit video, every single competitor here beats it.

We don't have a confirmed price for this exact config, but the USD listings we're seeing range from $2,016 to $2,202 across three US sellers. That's a lot of money for a machine with integrated graphics. You're paying for the tiny form factor, the vPro Enterprise management features, and the Opal-encrypted storage. For a business buying in bulk, those features justify the cost. For a home user, it's harder to swallow when a mid-tower with a dedicated GPU can be had for less. The CAD listing at $2,937 and the MXN listing at 81,051 pesos suggest this is a premium product in every market it sells in.

The Lenovo ThinkCentre M90q Gen 6 packs a 14-core Intel Core Ultra 5 235, 32GB of DDR5-5600, and a 1TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD into a box that weighs 1.34kg and measures about 7 inches square. That's a serious amount of compute for something you can mount behind a monitor. The CPU lands in the 78th percentile and the RAM in the 83rd, so this little machine punches well above its size class for productivity work.

But the integrated Intel Graphics tells the real story. The GPU sits at the 51st percentile, which is fine for spreadsheets, web apps, and video calls, but it's the reason the gaming score bottoms out at 16.1 out of 100. This is a workhorse, not a plaything. If you need a compact office machine with vPro Enterprise support and Opal-encrypted storage, the M90q Gen 6 is built for exactly that.

Skip this if you need any kind of graphics performance. The integrated GPU at the 51st percentile and the 16.1 out of 100 gaming score mean no modern games, no serious video editing, and no GPU-accelerated rendering. Skip it if you're a home user on a budget, because the $2,016 to $2,202 USD price range buys a lot more raw performance in a traditional desktop. And skip it if you need lots of USB-C ports, since you only get one. This machine is for business deployments where security, manageability, and size matter more than graphics or expandability.

The ThinkCentre M90q Gen 6 is a purpose-built machine, and that purpose is business productivity. The 14-core CPU and 32GB of fast DDR5 make it a multitasking champ, and the Opal-encrypted 1TB SSD is a genuine security feature, not a checkbox. But the integrated graphics cap what this machine can do, and the gaming score of 16.1 out of 100 is a blunt reminder of that. If you're an IT manager deploying a fleet of compact, secure, manageable desktops, this is a strong pick. If you're a home user who occasionally wants to game or edit video, look elsewhere.