AMD CPUs, Nvidia GPUs, LPCAMM2: Redesigned Lenovo ThinkPad P16s Gen 5 with AMD Ryzen 9 HX 400 announced

[Redaktion]

Apart from the expensive ThinkPad P1, Lenovo also updates the less expensive ThinkPad P16s line. The new ThinkPad P16s Gen 5 has a unified design for both the AMD and Intel models, as well as dedicated Nvidia GPUs for the AMD variants for the first time.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-CPUs-Nvidia-GPUs-LPCAMM2-Redesigned-Lenovo-ThinkPad-P16s-Gen-5-with-AMD-Ryzen-9-HX-400-announced.1251695.0.html

[moe69230]

Unless gen 4, AMD Ryzen 9 version should be available with the OLED screen

[ATK3]

Unfortunate that the same specs aren't coming to the P14S Gen 7 AMD - I prefer the form factor there, and unfortunately it seems to still be a T14 with a slight spec change (and that means no LPCAMM2 for 14" AMD machines this time around).

[Happy with my Air 15 tho]

Upgradable 8533 MT/s vs soldered 9600 MT/s, difficult choice? But it's a workstation, so upgradable it has to be, some would say and they wouldn't be wrong (unless if it still were 5600 MT/s, which it's fortunately not).

unified design for both the AMD and Intel models

You say finally AMD is treated on the same level? The number of stars in LENOVO's shop indicates that both are sold equally well.

45 % NTSC entry level screen

The year 2000 wants its screen back.

it weighs 1.75 kg, not too heavy for a 16-inch workstation.

But it's nothing special either. Make it 1.5 kg at most.

While this is not a gaming laptop, still note that the iGPU is an ancient RDNA3.5, not current RDNA4 architecture and AMD is not releasing the leaked FSR4 INT8 for RDNA3 / RDNA3.5:
FSR4 INT8 on RDNA3 looks so much better than what RDNA3 officially supports:
youtube.com/watch?v=VPMOjdvmHMk "FSR4 on RDNA3 on Windows!!! How To Guide and Side by Sides Tested on RX 7800 XT"
youtube.com/watch?v=yB0qmTCzrmI "AMD Tried To Hide This From You - FSR 4 INT8 on RDNA 3 & 2 Tested"
youtube.com/watch?v=v70p700D94U And here Owen shows that even AMD's /r/radeon hardcore crowd is starting to get pissed off on AMD (and righteously so, of course).

Lenovo will offer up to the Nvidia RTX Pro 2000 Blackwell with 8 GB VRAM.

Use the 3 GB memory chips instead of the current 2 GB ones and give us the 12 GB VRAM already in this small-ish weight class. Like in the news here: notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-confirms-RTX-5070-12GB-gaming-laptops-launching-soon-with-Intel-Core-Ultra-7-251HX-models-also-joining.1255561.0.html

Unfortunate that the same specs aren't coming to the P14S Gen 7 AMD - I prefer the form factor there, and unfortunately it seems to still be a T14 with a slight spec change (and that means no LPCAMM2 for 14" AMD machines this time around).

Correct, a bit disappointing for the 14 inch one.

[Happy with my Air 15 tho]

Give it up to 128 GB RAM or better 192 GB and RDNA4 iGPU and we are talking.

The APUs themself support up to 256 GB RAM:

Max. Memory    256 GB

Max. Memory    256 GB

Max. Memory    256 GB

But what laptop supports up to 128 GB RAM or even the full 256 GB RAM, you may ask? FRAMEWORK (and Clevo and Tongfang):
community.frame.work/t/status-report-fw13-amd-7840-debian-trixie-hibernation-128-gb-ram-etc/69864
reddit.com/r/framework/comments/1rglnz1/128gb_memory_on_the_framework_16_laptop/
(type "128 gb" or "256 gb" into each' search)

[Happy with my Air 15 tho]

Use the 3 GB memory chips instead of the current 2 GB ones and give us the 12 GB VRAM already in this small-ish weight class. Like in the news here: notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-confirms-RTX-5070-12GB-gaming-laptops-launching-soon-with-Intel-Core-Ultra-7-251HX-models-also-joining.1255561.0.html

Also make it the cheaper consumer GPU offering (it's the same GB206 chip anyway (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwell_(microarchitecture)). I guess for this one has to look at the Tg series.