Lenovo ThinkPad P51 (Xeon, 4K) Workstation Review

[julie]

It seems the battery for Thinkpad P50 and P51 has two voltage 11.25V/8000mAh  and 15V /4400mAh but they have same battery type No.00NY491 SB10H45076

[flipacoin]

MSI and Clevo has managed to put Quadro P3000 and P4000 into light and thin 2 kg 15" laptops (WS63VR , P955HQ1/3) based on their slim gaming counterparts (GS6xVR , P95xHP6/HR). Thinkpad should have a competitor as well but with a large battery, thin bezels and a second M.2-2280 slot instead of a 2.5" all like Gigabyte Aero 15W/X but with a centered keyboard w/o the numpad.

Just a thought.

[daniel kusnir]

This is a very nice review however i would like to correct on one topic - P51s has nothing to do with P51. in the past, we used T560 - P50s as differece between GPU config. P50s was orderable with Nvidia while T560 was not. This is no longer the case with T570 - however we decided to continue with P51s line. But the motherboard is same. So it is better to compare those two. P51 is a replacement for W (orkstation) line, therefore comparison between 50(1) -70(1) would be more accurate. Our newest P52 will be even more powerful, as this will be our first 8th Gen ( not-refresh ) CPU with new Pascal GPU as well.

[Kuupora]

It seems that the GPU in the test unit (Quadro M2200) and the one that was delivered are somewhat different.

According to GPU-Z:

Test unit (info from the article):
GPU: 1436
ROPs/TMUs: 32/85
Texture Fillrate: 59.1 GTexel/s

My Quadro M2200:
GPU: GM206
ROPs/TMUs: 32/64
Texture Fillrate: 44.5 GTexel/s

Also Techpowerup site confirms that M2200 has 32/64 ROPs/TMUs.
After doing a bit benchmarking I found out that:

* I get consistently lower (~8%) benchmark scores for 3DMark06 and 3DMark 11 Performance.
* Cloud Gate score is ~21% lower.
* Fire Strike seems to be lagging 1-2%.
* Time Spy score seems consistent with the review.

[Hassan Horack]

tl;dr - screen is broken, need replacement

Hi - this might be a long shot, but does anyone know how I can get a 4K Xeon Screen replacement?
Or if it would be okay to put a lower resolution screen on this machine in its stead, maybe?