Fast, bright, practical: The Lenovo ThinkPad P16s G2 AMD with Ryzen 7 and a Radeon 780M reviewed

Premium performance, but it can’t escape all criticism.

No dedicated graphics card, no visual highlights but in turn, great performance, robustness and an OLED display. Even the P16s’ graphics performance needn’t shy away. So, good all around? Well, almost!

Mario Petzold (translated by Daisy Dickson), Published 01/27/2024 🇩🇪

A workstation doesn’t necessarily have to offer the best possible graphics performance—especially as this doesn’t always only result in advantages.

This laptop uses the extremely powerful and efficient AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 7840U. Its integrated graphics chip achieves similar performance to the Nvidia RTX 2050. In professional graphics applications, it easily outperforms the Nvidia T550.

In turn, it only features limited hardware with limited power requirements—but only limited spending is required. In addition, the ThinkPad P16s G2 is comparatively light and stays mostly quiet.

On top of this, Lenovo has given the work device, featuring a visually stripped-back and sober design, an OLED display. This, of course, makes a lot of sense if you are marketing the laptop toward people using it for graphically demanding media editing tasks.

Plus, detail-rich content with natural colors just looks amazing in general, anyway.

Not quite right in detail

You do get a lot—especially in terms of performance and nice-looking picture. On the other hand, the manufacturer has cut some costs when it comes to the device’s connectivity options. In total, the USB ports could have been a little faster.

And the CPU and iGPU’s outstanding efficiency has been eaten up to a certain extent by the laptop’s bright OLED display. Despite its large battery, its runtimes remain good and practical—but just not as good as they could have been.

In our detailed review of the ThinkPad P16s G2 AMD, you can see what else surprised us positively, what bugged us, as well as a detailed overview of all of our measurements.

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Mario Petzold, 2024-01-27 (Update: 2024-01-26)

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