Mobile workstation with Nvidia RTX PRO 2000 - Lenovo ThinkPad P16v Gen 3 review

[Redaktion]

The ThinkPad P16v Gen 3 is a mobile workstation from Lenovo. There have been savings in some areas, such as the housing materials or the graphics and cooling performance. Nevertheless, the price is more than 2,800 Euros (~$3248). In our test, we find out whether this is justified.

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[moe69230]

I am surprised that the P16s AMD Gen 4 with its Ryzen 9 is not behind the P16v Gen 3 in terms of CPU performance, even though the P16s AMD has only one fan compared to two fans on the P16v.

The P16s AMD Gen 4 Ryzen version could have been very good if Lenovo had equipped it with a 4K display.

[Sander]

THANK YOU for calling them out on this ugly camera hump thing that appears everywhere now. Also note another tiny, yet important detail that they still haven't solved: some letter keys - used widely in Nordic languages by users in these Nordic countries - some of those keys just LEFT of the ENTER key are narrower! Who in their right mind would design their keyboard like this?
I have told them about this, yet they haven't done anything.

[Enough said]

We would have liked a little more performance, especially from the graphics card. The Nvidia RTX PRO 2000 (Blackwell, comparable to GeForce RTX 5060) is only operated with a maximum of 60 watts and is therefore well away from the maximum 115 watts (would provide around 30% more performance). In view of the large 16-inch case, this is relatively weak.

Thanks for mentioning this. Correct, it's the same GB206 chip (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwell_(microarchitecture)#Blackwell_dies).

8 GB VRAM [..] 2825 Euro

Enough said.

With pixel response times of 39.2 ms, which equals to true 1/0.0392 = 25 Hz, it's not going to be a good gaming display, but it's also not a gaming laptop.

Positive bits (not exhaustive):

2 slots, max. 96 GB

At least it's not soldered and not up to 64 GB RAM. 96 GB RAM (+8 GB VRAM) can easily fit e.g. Gpt-Oss-120B LLM or a GLM-4.5-Air quant.

The average brightness is a very good ~554 cd/m²

Seems good enough.