OLED eats battery life: Lenovo ThinkPad P14s G5 AMD laptop review

[Redaktion]

A more powerful version of the Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 5: This is the promise of the Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gne 5 AMD. Performance is truly better, but this comes at a cost. Also, the OLED screen of the ThinkPad laptop leads to a bad endurance when running on battery power.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/OLED-eats-battery-life-Lenovo-ThinkPad-P14s-G5-AMD-laptop-review.950394.0.html

[Bizarro_NikoB]

I have the 14.5" 3K Intel version which is by far the better option of the two. Never thought I'd say that when comparing Intel/AMD variants of a ThinkPad as in the past AMD versions blew away their Intel counterparts, but this go around, the Intel version's configuration options, chassis, and battery life make it the superior machine.

[Zaid Hakeem]

Hello,

I'm quite surprised that you deleted my comment. Honestly, I've been using this laptop with the specifications as reviewed, and everything seems to be working as expected. I understand that OLED screens can drop the battery, but the advantage is that you get a very impressive screen that can't be compared to anything else. Additionally, the main advantage is the power adapter, which is 65 watts and very small. You can easily carry it in your bag and visit websites without any issues.

[indy]

I've noticed when I attempt to replicate your Web Benchmarks on my own system, they do not reflect what would be expected.

Is it possible to post what software versions (Web Browser, Windows version/etc) that you use for software benchmarks?

For example, I have a Linux-based Intel Ultra 7 155h, which is two years old at this point, and it trounces your benchmarks for systems that are newer/more powerful in Webxprt 4 and Mozilla Kraken.  My WebXPRT 4 score was 304, running Kubuntu 24.10 on Firefox 134.  This absolutely is far higher (~20%!) than most of your benches.  Even your own benches don't scale well in this same review, I'm thinking either a very old browser version?   

This makes it difficult to gauge whether it's worthwhile for me to consider upgrading, since the benchmarks don't match up consistently.  And if you are sticking with static browser/software for consistency, can you please mention this in your reviews?

And this is only browser benchmarks, which call into me questioning the results of other benchmarks...

[Mr.F]

Well, as expected, OLED, while bringing a marginal increase in colour vibrancy, comes at a bit steep price of increased power consumption, burnin, pwm and worse resistance to high temperatures.
Generally it is not recommended to get a laptop with OLED gor general audience.