QuoteDifferent from the older P16s Gen 2 AMD, the RAM is not soldered. Instead, the Lenovo ThinkPad P16s G6 has two SO-DIMMs for up to 96 GB DDR5-5600 memory.
This is good, because 96 GB would allow to fit and run AIs / LLM like Gpt-Oss-120B quite easily (natively ~4-5-bit per weight aka Q4 quant), actually even quite larger ones quantized down to 4-bit to 5-bit per weight (below 4-bit per weight and the performance may degrade exponentially) (e.g.: if a 180B parameters LLM at full FP16 = 360 GB, then Q8 = 180 GB and Q4 = 90 GB, this may just fit) (or use a smaller LLM, but use a higher bit-per-weight quant, like Q8).
With no dGPU I'd like this laptop to stand out a bit more tho: Like supporting up to 128 GB RAM and having the CAMM2 / LPCAMM2 RAM standard, which would allow the RAM to run at a faster MT/s, still being upgradable, and give it a higher memory bandwidth: LLMs' token generation (tg) speed linearly depends on the MT/s value (5600 MT/s to 8500 MT/s = 50% faster token generation). RAM can also go bad, and if it was soldered, one couldn't replace and repair it.
But: Having no dGPU means slower prompt processing (pp) (the larger the input, the slower) (by the same ratio that a dGPU have a higher FPS value than this iGPU, so would be the prompt processing). With dGPU, partically offloacing (or if you have a small LLM, then fully) a LLM to the GPU's VRAM would also speed up the token generation (tg).
QuoteWithout a dedicated graphics chip, it simply can not compete.
Quotebad GPU performance (for a workstation)
Despite what I said above, it depends on the user' use-case. Not every workstation has to have all features (100% AdobeRGB coverage, ECC RAM, dedicated workstation GPU with ECC VRAM, ..).
Since it's a workstation, maybe the question if ECC RAM is supported could be answered. (Technically adding ECC functionality would be cheap, so it's an artificial marketing segmentation at best.)
QuoteOLED not available with Ryzen 9
This is weird. If this laptop' IPS had display P3 coverage, then I'd say OLED would only be required for gaming (due to its fast pixel response times), but this has no dGPU, so no OLED is fine and also OLED consumes more power? and would need to be 120 Hz to make really sense for gaming, but then it would also require an even faster dGPU to more likely reach the 120 Hz.
Static content, which may happen more often on a workstation, on OLED may still be an issue, idk tho, because OLED, as you say, is available on the Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 configurations.
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