In today's competitive laptop market, the Lenovo ThinkBook series stands out as a beacon for consumers who prioritize style and business-centric functionalities. This review delves into the ThinkBook 16p 2025 AI Yuanqi Edition, a laptop tailored for creative professionals, equipped with an AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX processor and an NVIDIA RTX 5060 Laptop GPU. Let's explore how it performs.

Design: A Surprising Blend of Elegance and Efficiency

The Lenovo ThinkBook 16p 2025 AI Yuanqi Edition sports a Lunar Gray color scheme, with the A-side crafted from silk aluminum and finished with a metallic paint, exuding a premium aesthetic. The minimalist Lenovo Logo adds a touch of sophistication to its business-oriented design.

A Magic Bay interface on the A-side allows users to seamlessly integrate accessories tailored to their needs, enhancing the overall user experience.

The ThinkBook Logo on the laptop's C-side and the Lenovo Logo on the A-side are both crafted using a three-dimensional cutting process, creating a cohesive design language.

The laptop's keyboard, specifically designed for creators, features a 1.5mm keystroke and a 0.3mm concave keycap. The top row boasts shortcut keys, full-size directional keys, and a numeric keypad, ensuring efficiency. The 135mm x 80mm glass-covered touchpad, centrally located, offers a natural and intuitive experience.

Connectivity-wise, the left side of the laptop hosts a USB-A 3.2 Gen2 port, two Type-C ports, and a headphone jack. The right side includes an SD card slot and two USB-A 3.2 Gen1 ports, while the rear accommodates the power port and an HDMI 2.1 port. This thoughtful port layout keeps cables out of sight, maintaining a clean and aesthetically pleasing appearance.

Additionally, the air vents are positioned at the rear, ensuring that hot air dissipation is less noticeable during daily use, enhancing the overall user experience.

The Lenovo ThinkBook 16p 2025 AI Yuanqi Edition boasts a 2.5K resolution screen with a 240Hz refresh rate, encapsulated in a narrow bezel design that offers a screen-to-body ratio of up to 93%. The camera, equipped with a mechanical switch, ensures privacy protection with a single click.

This display excels in quality, offering a detailed 2.5K resolution and an ultra-smooth 240Hz refresh rate. It also supports HDR400 and covers 100% of the DCI-P3 color gamut, making it ideal for professionals with stringent color requirements.

Surprisingly lightweight, the Lenovo ThinkBook 16p 2025 AI Yuanqi Edition weighs in at approximately 2.17kg, defying expectations.

Productivity and Gaming Performance

Powered by the AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX processor, the flagship model in the Ryzen 8000 series, the ThinkBook 16p 2025 AI Yuanqi Edition leverages AMD's Zen4 architecture and TSMC's advanced 5nm FinFET process. With 16 cores, 32 threads, a maximum boost clock speed of 5.4GHz, 64MB of L3 cache, and a default TDP of 55W, this processor is a powerhouse.

The laptop offers various performance modes, including energy-saving, smart, beast, and geek. All tests were conducted in geek mode.

The Ryzen 9 8945HX delivers exceptional performance, scoring 114 points in single-core and 1802 points in multi-core tests on CINEBENCH 2024.

In the 3D Mark CPU Profile test, it scored 1054 points in single-thread, 2073 points in 2-thread, 3965 points in 4-thread, 7311 points in 8-thread, 13196 points in 16-thread, and 13880 points in max threads.

Equipped with a full-power 115W NVIDIA RTX 5060 Laptop GPU, based on the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture with 8GB of GDDR7 VRAM, the ThinkBook 16p 2025 AI Yuanqi Edition ensures top-notch graphical performance.

In 3D Mark benchmarks, it scored 12135 points in the Time Spy GPU test, 5583 points in the Time Spy Extreme test, 32250 points in the Fire Strike test, 7295 points in the Fire Strike Ultra test, and 7472 points in the Port Royal test.

Storage-wise, the laptop features a 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD from Yealink, offering sequential read speeds of 7111MB/s and write speeds of 6603MB/s, as tested using CrystalDiskMark.

Memory-wise, it employs dual-channel 32GB DDR5 5200MHz RAM from Samsung. In the AIDA64 memory performance test, it achieved read speeds of 61629MB/s, write speeds of 61952MB/s, copy speeds of 51236MB/s, and a latency of 85.1ns.

Given its hardware configuration, how does the Lenovo ThinkBook 16p 2025 AI Yuanqi Edition fare in productivity tests? Its target audience, after all, includes creative designers and office workers.

In V-Ray software, which evaluates hardware rendering capabilities, the Ryzen 9 8945HX processor achieved a rendering adoption rate of 35527 vsamples per minute.

The RTX 5060 Laptop GPU scored 2430 vpaths in the CUDA test and 3642 vpaths in the RTX ray tracing performance test.

In the 7-Zip compression and decompression test, the Ryzen 9 8945HX demonstrated a compression speed of 136967KB/s and a decompression speed of 2632953KB/s, completing 10 rounds in just 61.89 seconds.

Using X264 for video encoding, the Ryzen 9 8945HX achieved an average frame rate of 96.01fps while encoding 2500 frames, completing the task in 26 seconds.

In Blender rendering tests, the laptop scored 1617 on the monster project, 997 on the junkshop project, and 928 on the classroom project.

The D5 Renderer Benchmark test took 1 minute and 56 seconds on the ThinkBook 16p 2025 AI Yuanqi Edition, with 2K image rendering taking 38 seconds and 1080P video rendering taking 1 minute and 17 seconds, showcasing its high rendering efficiency.

Using SPECviewperf 2020 to test productivity software including 3dsmax, catia, creo, maya, etc., the ThinkBook 16p 2025 AI Yuanqi Edition excelled in all test items, meeting the daily design and rendering needs of professionals.

Moreover, we tested the laptop's AI capabilities using Procyon, involving three large language models.

PHI 3.5 averaged 84.1 tokens/s, scoring 2272, while MISTRAL 7B averaged 66.52 tokens/s, scoring 2192, and LLAMA 3.1 averaged 40.55 tokens/s, scoring 1302.

Thanks to the AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX processor and NVIDIA RTX 5060 Laptop GPU, the Lenovo ThinkBook 16p 2025 AI Yuanqi Edition delivers impressive performance in various productivity tasks and AI applications, making it an ideal choice for design professionals.

But work isn't everything! The ThinkBook 16p 2025 AI Yuanqi Edition is not just a powerful productivity tool; it also offers a seamless gaming experience. The AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX's robust multi-core performance and 64MB of L3 cache ensure responsive gameplay.

In "Shadow of the Tomb Raider" with maximum graphics settings, the laptop achieved an average frame rate of 113 fps. "Assassin's Creed: Odyssey" ran at an average of 95 fps with high graphics quality, while "Red Dead Redemption 2" achieved 77 fps with ultra-high graphics

For business professionals in need of creative design solutions, the Lenovo ThinkBook 16p 2025 AI Yuanqi Edition stands out as a top recommendation within the 8000 yuan price bracket. Equipped with the AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX processor and RTX 5060 GPU, this device ensures exceptional and reliable performance, effectively alleviating any performance-related concerns of creators. Boasting a 240Hz professional display, an array of ports, and a lightweight design at just 2.17kg, this laptop seamlessly integrates into various daily usage scenarios, demonstrating its thoughtful design and user-centric approach.