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The author of the Reddit post mentioned above added full SPECworkstation 4.0 results to his post: Seems like that the ThinkPad P16 Gen performs better than expected, however, also worse than the direct competitors when you choose an RTX Pro 4000 or 5000.

Thanks for making that clear! The respective discussion on Reddit is actually one of the reasons for our concerns. Since the 3DMark Time Spy GPU is primarily focusing on the DirectX 12 (gaming) performance, I was looking out for other experience/test with the Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Gen 3 which sheds some light on e.g. CUDA and/or OpenCL performance. This screenshots in the Reddit post show, as you mentioned, that the dGPU performance is slightly below average for an RTX Pro 4000. Would be good to know if this is also the case for an RTX Pro 3000 or not. In addition, the post also mentions that the CPU is not really able to come up to maximum frequency. Here, it would be also my question if this is due to actual cooling or a set point from Lenovo? It is not to blame Lenovo, at all. The ThinkPad P1 Gen 8, e.g., seems to have a quite capable thermal management system. However, we need to know what such a mobile workstation is really able to deliver. We also have a presentation from one of the other two competitors on the market (which was originally) not on our focus. We will see who convinces us... so far, it is very quiet from our contact person at Lenovo.

Dear all, This is my first post, and it's directly born a bit out of necessity: Can someone please solve some of the mysteries surrounding this notebook? We are a small tech company buying every few years a hand full of mobile workstations. (Currently, we have Lenovo P51 and 1st generation HP ZBook 14 in operation.) Last week, I reached out to our IT shop to configure the new Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Gen 3 according to our needs and discuss some technical questions. To my surprise, he didn't really know that much about this notebook yet - even if he had it in stock in some standard configurations. So, I reached out to Lenovo support - and, so far, I didn't get useful answers, either. For the potential alternatives (Dell Pro Max 16 Plus and HP ZBook Fury G1i 16) I can find everything online - detailed technical specifications (incl. TDP/TGP), various benchmarks, and for the HP even an 80-minutes YouTube video showing basically to replace every single component. Can someone please confirm if it is simply to early (or Lenovo is slower than competitors) for the details or is their something serious in the rumors that the thermal design of the ThinkPad P16 Gen 3 might not be competitive with dGPUs of type Nvidia RTX Pro 4000 or 5000? We are typically satisfied with the ThinkPads we have (but the ZBooks are also working fine since years). And we have also no problems to stick to an RTX Pro 3000 if more power cannot be handled by the device. It is, however, really strange if I do not get a clear answer on technical questions when it's about purchasing + 6.000,- € notebooks. Any serious and trustable information is welcome!