Lenovo first introduced the ThinkPad P16v last year with Intel Raptor Lake vPro processors, up to an RTX A2000 GPU, and a 16-inch 800-nit WQUXGA display. This year, Lenovo is keeping the same chassis, but introducing a handful of significant updates.
To start, the ThinkPad P16v i Gen 2 can be configured with up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 CPU and an RTX 3000 Ada Generation GPU. Although the Core Ultra 9 185H doesn’t bring a performance upgrade over the Raptor Lake Core i9 processors it replaces, the processor features a much higher performance iGPU, as well as a fast NPU and improvements in terms of performance. efficiency. The big performance improvement, however, will be brought by the Ada Generation GPU RTX 3000 Ada Generation GPU with its 20 TFLOPs of calculation compared to 14.5 TFLOPs for the RTX 2000 Adala RTX 3000 Ada graphics card, which can be found in the top model ThinkPad P16v Gen 1 SKU (Buy it now on Amazon).
Additionally, the ThinkPad P16v G2 can offer up to 96GB of DDR5-5600 memory and 4TB of PCIe Gen 4 storage with two 2TB hard drives operating in RAID 0/1.
The ThinkPad P16v Gen 2 also offers a new 400 nits, 100% sRGB display option. Users can now choose between an 800 lumen UHD+ display with 100% DCI-P3 coverage, a 400 lumen 100% sRGB option with FHD+ resolution, and two FHD+ displays with 45% NTSC options at 300 lumens, with or without touch input.
Aside from these improvements, one less Type-A port and the absence of the red stripe on the back, the ThinkPad P16v G2 is almost identical to the last generation model, with the same chassis, the same selection of ports , a 90 Wh battery, dimensions of 65.00 x 262.00 x 24.66 mm and a starting weight of 2.22 kg (4.9 lb).
According to Lenovo, the ThinkPad P16v Gen 2 will be available in May 2024 at a starting price of €2,140 ($2,289.24 at the current exchange rate).
