Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 review – portable and loaded with power and security features

Temperatures and comfort, Battery Life

Max CPU load

In this test we use 100% on the CPU cores, monitoring their frequencies and chip temperature. The first column shows a computer’s reaction to a short load (2-10 seconds), the second column simulates a serious task (between 15 and 30 seconds), and the third column is a good indicator of how good the laptop is for long loads such as video rendering.

Average P-core frequency; Average E-core frequency; CPU temp.; Package Power

The Core i5-1340P inside of the Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 can maintain much higher CPU clocks and power limits compared to the Dell Vostro 16 5630 which is good.

Real-life gaming

The mobile NVIDIA RTX A500 can sustain a stable 30W TGP and ~1043MHz core frequency after 30 minutes of gaming. All looks normal for such a GPU.

Comfort during full load

The manufacturer has made a really smart decision to implement their power presets into the Windows Power mode. So, you don’t have to use Lenovo Vantage to control the performance of your laptop. The three Windows presets are called “Best power efficiency”, “Balanced”, and “Best Performance”. They stand for “Eco mode”, “Auto performance mode”, and “Ultra performance mode”. To check if the Auto preset is turned on or off, you have to press Fn+T and see the on-screen info.

The laptop is almost quiet while Web browsing or watching videos. During 100% CPU stress in “Ultra performance mode”, the single fan is spinning at around ~ 4000 RPM and the noise isn’t too loud.

When the GPU has to do the heavy lifting, the fan’s RPM is ~ 4600 RPM. In heavy stress, the whole keyboard feels warm, but not hot, and the hotspot is right in the center of the board. The two palm rest areas are cool enough for normal work too.

Idle

Web browsing

Video playback

Gaming

Battery

Now, we conduct the battery tests with Windows Better performance setting turned on, screen brightness adjusted to 120 nits and all other programs turned off except for the one we are testing the notebook with. There is a 52.5Wh battery inside and it lasts for 9 hours and 5 minutes of Web browsing, or 6 hours and 40 minutes of video playback.

Video playback

Brightness: 180 nits; Display Mode: SDR
Time to Full Discharge: Higher is Better

Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 52.5Wh

6h 20m

Dell Vostro 5630 54Wh, 4-cell

8h 37m+36.1%

Lenovo Yoga 9i 14

10h 01m+58.2%

Lenovo Yoga 7i 14 71Wh, 4-cell

9h 04m+43.2%

Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 3 52.5Wh

$1069^.99

5h 52m-7.4%

Dell Vostro 5620 54Wh, 4-cell

7h 01m+10.8%

Lenovo Yoga 9i 14 75Wh

6h 35m+3.9%

Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 3 57Wh

7h 55m+25%

ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED (UX3402) 75Wh, 4-cell

10h 54m+72.1%

Lenovo IdeaPad 5 Pro 14 56.5Wh

5h 42m-10%

Web surfing

In order to simulate real-life conditions, we used our own script for automatic web browsing through over 70 websites.

Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 52.5Wh

9h 05m

Dell Vostro 5630 54Wh, 4-cell

9h 05m

Lenovo Yoga 9i 14

10h 55m+20.2%

Lenovo Yoga 7i 14 71Wh, 4-cell

14h 17m+57.2%

Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 3 52.5Wh

$1069^.99

8h 37m-5.1%

Dell Vostro 5620 54Wh, 4-cell

10h 10m+11.9%

Lenovo Yoga 9i 14 75Wh

7h 13m-20.6%

Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 3 57Wh

10h 57m+20.6%

ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED (UX3402) 75Wh, 4-cell

11h 31m+26.8%

Lenovo IdeaPad 5 Pro 14 56.5Wh

6h 05m-33%

Author: Nikolay Palaozov

Author: eng. Kroum NikolovHead of Engineering at LaptopMedia.com, inventor and innovator with 40+ years of experience in electronics and high technology.

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JMA

2 years ago

Excellent review, very comprehensive.

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