A new premium laptop that the manufacturer does not want to talk about: Lenovo quietly releases powerful RTX ThinkPad

The Lenovo ThinkPad T1g Gen 8...wait, what? Since when is this model a thing, and since when are there eight generations of it? And why did Lenovo never talk about it? This is a new addition to the ThinkPad T series, one of the most well-known ThinkPad laptop series, and there is seemingly no marketing for it at all.

Of course, for ardent readers of Notebookcheck, the Lenovo ThinkPad T1g is not entirely new, seeing as we already reported on a leak that mentioned the new model. However, real details on this model were sparse so far, and Lenovo did not mention with its recent IFA 2025 announcements. This has changed, as the Lenovo ThinkPad T1g Gen 8 is now featured on Lenovo's PSREF specification database.

As the images and specifications show: The ThinkPad T1g G8 is a carbon-copy of the recently announced Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 8, Lenovo's flagship thin and light premium 16-inch workstation for CAD and AI work on the go. There is only one important difference: The Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 8 is sold with Nvidia RTX Pro GPUs with up to the Nvidia RTX Pro 2000. The ThinkPad T1g Gen 8 on the other hand will only feature Nvidia GeForce RTX graphics chips, with both the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 and the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 being available.

With the preceding Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 7 (available on Amazon), both the GeForce and professional RTX GPUs were available under the P1 name, but it appears Lenovo decided to reverse course and return to the state of things of a few years ago. Originally, the ThinkPad P1 came to the market alongside the ThinkPad X1 Extreme, which would feature GeForce GPUs - a role the ThinkPad T1g will now fill.

Interestingly, in this case, the ThinkPad T1g Gen 8 will likely be more powerful than the ThinkPad P1 Gen 8, seeing as the T1g features the RTX 5070, which has more CUDA cores than the RTX Pro 2000 that is based on the RTX 5060. This was not the case with the P1 Gen 7, as that model had the option for the RTX 3000 level pro GPU.

The Lenovo ThinkPad T1g Gen 8 is already available in select markets, starting around €3,000.