AMD much faster than Intel: Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 laptop review

[Redaktion]

AMD or Intel - Lenovo gives customers who buy the ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 the choice. The business laptop offers many great connectivity and security options, as well as plenty upgradeability, coupled with a good performance. This performance has a price, however.

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[Vasudev]

The high thermals are due to buggy Lenovo power management drivers. The driver almost makes Ryzen behave like Intel p core like agressive frequencies for peak performance rather than sustained performance.

I found disabling Lenovo intelligent thermal solution in BIOS reverted the power wattage to AMD factory spec for CPU and performs consistently.
Even shared the exact power profile settings I used on AC and battery saved through Power settings explorer.
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Note that in using IC Diamond HC pad which performed similar to carbonaut on entire SoC/CPU using cooler master maker get nano to hold the sheet on place.



The tweaks are applicable from amd ThinkPad gen 3 onwards with 58xx series which has similar issues. I've seen similar optimization issue with other OEM like asus, gigabyte, msi etc especially with Ryzen CPU and GPU.