Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen6 Leaks With 12-core AMD Strix Point APU

[GGforever]

Over the years, we have witnessed plenty of product leaks via webpages that went live well before they were supposed to. Something similar appears to have happened with Lenovo's Malaysian site, granting us a glimpse at the upcoming ThinkPad P14s Gen 6 powered by up to the full-fat 12-core Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 APU. The leaked product specifications, as listed below, reveal that the P14s will support up to a whopping 96 GB of DDR5-5600 memory, although only with the lower-end Ryzen AI 7 PRO 350 and Ryzen AI 5 PRO 340 variants.

Compared to the previous edition ThinkPad P14s with AMD's Ryzen 7 8840HS APU, the highest-end variant with the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 will undoubtedly be substantially faster in both single and multicore performance. The Radeon 890M iGPU will also handily outperform the 780M, although the difference is unlikely to be earth-shattering. Like its predecessor, the Gen 6 will continue being available with a 2.8K 120 Hz OLED display, with a higher peak brightness of 500 nits and 100% coverage of the DCI-P3 color gamut. The port selection, as can be expected from a ThinkPad, is plenty admirable, packing dual Thunderbolt 4 (with DisplayPort 1.4), HDMI 2.1, Ethernet, dual USB-A, optional nano sim and smart card reader, as well as a headphone jack.



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[trsttte]

Why no strix halo lenovo?

And why still using SODIMM instead of LPCAMM?

 

[rhqq]

I'd love to see more SKUs all around the manufacturers featuring 395max pro blah blah plus one. Sadly only asus gaming tablet and hp zbook g1a are on the horizon, like at all...

 

[ZeDestructor]

Why no strix halo lenovo?

And why still using SODIMM instead of LPCAMM?

Because the P14s and P16s are cheap.

 

[trsttte]

Because the P14s and P16s are cheap.

Not really though, P series is on the pricier side and are supposed to be real workstations (I know lenovo product line is all over the place, P14s is a basically a rebranded T14, and they no longer do a P14 non s, but anyway)

And I'd argue LPCAMM is cheaper than SODIMM, you can have a single module instead of 2. They've used it on the P1 so they know how to do it, just need to do it more to push the industry in the right direction.

 

[ZeDestructor]

Not really though, P series is on the pricier side and are supposed to be real workstations (I know lenovo product line is all over the place, P14s is a basically a rebranded T14, and they no longer do a P14 non s, but anyway)

And I'd argue LPCAMM is cheaper than SODIMM, you can have a single module instead of 2. They've used it on the P1 so they know how to do it, just need to do it more to push the industry in the right direction.

Lenovo themselves has the lineup described as follows:

• P1: Ultrabook
• P16: Performance
• P14s/P16s: Entry (slim)
• P14v/P16v: Value/Mainstream

So yeah, they are absolutely intended to be cheap (relatively-speaking).

As someone who has bought both a P1 and P16s of the same generation (within the same 12mo span, even), I can confirm that the P16s is cheap, in very clear, very obvious, and very disappointing ways. Unfortunately, the P16s is the best product by far for the guy using it, so it stayed instead of being sent right back and replaced by a P1 (no numpad) or P16 (too expensive and far too much of a weight penalty).