Massive improvements thanks to Intel Arrow Lake: Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 6 laptop review

[Redaktion]

Last year, Lenovo introduced the 14.5-inch Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 5 with a dedicated Nvidia GPU, which also featured a large battery and dual fan cooling. The new iteration, the Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 6, includes more efficient Intel Arrow Lake H CPUs and Nvidia RTX Pro Blackwell graphics.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Massive-improvements-thanks-to-Intel-Arrow-Lake-Lenovo-ThinkPad-P14s-Gen-6-laptop-review.1144659.0.html

[Bizarro_NikoB]

Own the gen 5 and love it. Glad to see screen brightness increased to 500nits. And I agree, wish there was a second ssd and easily replaceable keyboard like the T series.

[6 GB VRAM: Nice trolling]

Performance is up, but efficiency is too, which means the laptops runs cooler, quieter and the battery lasts longer.

No, for the GPU part: The power efficiency of Blackwell GPUs has not increased (same node, same architecture (just with DLSS4 on top)).

Nvidia RTX PRO 500 Blackwell Generation Laptop - 6 GB VRAM

2760 bucks for only 6 GB VRAM, WTH? I see this garbage for the first time. I first thought it was a typo and you meant RTX PRO 5000 with 16 GB VRAM or something. Even for gaming 8 GB VRAM are becoming obsolete: youtube.com/watch?v=ric7yb1VaoA ("Gaming Laptops are in Trouble - VRAM Testing w/ ‪@Hardwareunboxed‬").

[indyp]

Worse performance (In Kraken and WebXPRT) than my $600 Cheapo Acer 155H from 2+ years ago.   "Progress"

[Pascal76]

That is not what I call a fast drive : the write speed is very low.
And why does LENOVO sells Gen5 Performance disks with GEN 4 motherboard ?! Even on the P1 gen 8 model !!

[Ryan223456]

That is not what I call a fast drive : the write speed is very low.
And why does LENOVO sells Gen5 Performance disks with GEN 4 motherboard ?! Even on the P1 gen 8 model !!

Yeah, I really do not understand it. I have this laptop. It actually did not come with a gen5 drive. It has a 2tb samsung 990pro in it vs the samsung pm9e1 gen 5. So for me its just plain ole false advertising. But, my drive does perform better(7200/4500) vs the gen5 they tested in this review.

[janb]

CPU-Z says it does support PCI 5.0. See the screenshot.

[janb]

Perhaps the dedicated GPU uses half of the PCI lanes

[Freddell]

That is not what I call a fast drive : the write speed is very low.
And why does LENOVO sells Gen5 Performance disks with GEN 4 motherboard ?! Even on the P1 gen 8 model !!

It should be highlighted that the P14s Gen 6 (Intel) only has a PCIe Gen 4 slot, as evident in performance testing of the PCie Gen 5 drive, that fails to impress.
Inaccurate dissapointing review of the storage aspect, also when inaccuracies are pointed out in the comments the review should be updated with the new finding.

[Freddell]

And the reviewer should have tried to populate the free 2242 slot with a NVMe drive to confirm that it either works or is blacklisted.

[ATK]

I cannot help but wish that Lenovo offered WWAN on the Intel/nVidia variant of this machine. Save for the keyboard repairability situation, I prefer everything about the P14Si/T14p-CN to the P14Sa/T14 system, and really would've loved to have something a little more powerful than an 890M (and to be free of the Mediatek-on-Linux WiFi disaster). But I'm typing this from a P14S Gen 6 AMD because I cannot live without WWAN... Lenovo always finds some way to get close to perfecting a product but stopping just short.

Here's to hoping that the Gen 7 for both of these machines bring a unified chassis, LPCAMM2, and a move to Gorgon Halo for the AMD system. Strix Halo has been incredibly impressive, and seeing a Thinkpad with the successor would probably convince me to upgrade outside of my usual 3-year cycle.