Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Aims For Desktop-Level Performance

Lenovo has simply introduced the ThinkPad P16 cell workstation, which options Intel’s HX-series cell processors which can be almost as quick as desktop processors.

A TDP (thermal design level) of 55W is properly past the CPUs usually used for productiveness functions. Increasing the TDP is essential as a result of greater efficiency requires extra energy (and wonderful cooling).

Lenovo says it has redesigned the cooling system utilized within the ThinkPad P16 with twin vapor chambers. Both CPU and GPU share some heat-dissipation {hardware}, which works nice regardless of how the workload is balanced throughout each chips.

The vent design appears to be like wonderful, and I count on the airflow to surpass what we had seen on the ThinkPad P15 Gen2, which we reviewed. Many gaming laptops have extra aggressive airflow designs, and I’d like to see how Lenovo’s carry out in the true world.

Lenovo says its strongest CPU choice might be a 3.6GHz Intel Core i9 HX. But that’s not all: the highest graphics choice is much more power-hungry (115W TDP) should you go for the NVIDIA RTX A5500. That’s fully regular for this degree of efficiency, however it’s an unimaginable degree of {hardware} in a small quantity.

Because it’s a workstation, there’s an choice to make use of as much as 128GB of DDR5-4800 ECC (or not) RAM, and the 2 SSD slots can accommodate as much as 8TB of SSD storage (maybe with a RAID choice?). These are formidable reminiscence and storage choices you received’t discover on consumer-level laptops.

The 16” display is a bit larger than the 15.6” we usually see, and essentially the most thrilling choice I’ve seen is the 4K OLED with 100% DCI-P3 coloration protection and 400 NITs brightness. If, for some purpose, you want one thing brighter, the IPS LCD choice can attain 600 NITs.

This laptop computer shouldn’t be small. At 14.3×10.5×1.2 and 6.5 Lbs, it’s on the heavier aspect, and you can conceptually discover barely lighter laptops with a comparatively comparable degree of graphics efficiency.

But the ThinkPad P16 reminiscence and storage choices will fulfill essentially the most demanding professionals, and Lenovo’s safety and administration choices cater to this crowd. Finally, there are the overall sturdiness of the ThinkPad lineup and the keyboard high quality, which stay enduring (if not indispensable) pillars to customers.

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