Lenovo ThinkPad P53 Series
Processor: Intel Coffee Lake E-2276M, Intel Coffee Lake i5-9400H, Intel Coffee Lake i7-9750H, Intel Coffee Lake i7-9850HGraphics Adapter: NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q, NVIDIA Quadro T1000 (Laptop)
Display: 15.60 inch
Weight: 2.5kg, 2.688kg
Price: 4100, 6000 euro
Average of 10 scores (from 13 reviews)
Lenovo ThinkPad P53-20QNS00Q00
Specifications
Notebook: Lenovo ThinkPad P53-20QNS00Q00Processor: Intel Coffee Lake i5-9400H
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA Quadro T1000 (Laptop)
Display: 15.60 inch, 16:9, 1920 x 1080 pixels
Weight: 2.5kg
Links: Lenovo homepage
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Foreign Reviews
Source: Leonardo.it Tech
IT→EN Archive.org versionPositive: Powerful hardware; high gaming performance; excellent display. Negative: High price.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 07/18/2019
Lenovo ThinkPad P53-20QN000YGE
Specifications
Notebook: Lenovo ThinkPad P53-20QN000YGEProcessor: Intel Coffee Lake i7-9850H
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q 16384 MB
Display: 15.60 inch, 16:9, 1920 x 1080 pixels
Weight: 2.688kg
Price: 4100 euro
Links: Lenovo homepage
Price comparison
Average Score:
Reviews
Lenovo is now offering the new ThinkPad P53 with the high-end GPU Nvidia Quadro RTX 5000 that is usually reserved for larger devices. The cooling solution inside of the Lenovo workstation reaches its limits, which negatively affects the CPU performance.
Source: Slashgear
Archive.org versionThe ThinkPad P53 joins a long line of Lenovo workstation laptops, offering professionals the performance they need in a surprisingly portable, though still quite beefy, form factor. This model features the classic ThinkPad design paired with a full keyboard and array of ports, extensive configuration options, up to excellent battery life (for a workstation), and vast ISV certifications.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 12/10/2019
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Slashgear
Archive.org versionThe ThinkPad P53 joins a long line of Lenovo workstation laptops, offering professionals the performance they need in a surprisingly portable, though still quite beefy, form factor. This model features the classic ThinkPad design paired with a full keyboard and array of ports, extensive configuration options, up to excellent battery life (for a workstation), and vast ISV certifications.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 12/10/2019
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: PC Perspective
Archive.org versionThe Lenovo ThinkPad P53 is overall an impressive mobile workstation. It doesn’t have the sleek looks of today’s ultraportable laptops, but it still touts that classic ThinkPad aesthetic and offers incredible power and flexibility. You get all of the latest technology — Thunderbolt 3, RTX graphics, Wi-Fi 6, etc. — in a form factor that still allows you to upgrade your memory and storage.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 11/20/2019
Source: PC Perspective
Archive.org versionThe Lenovo ThinkPad P53 is overall an impressive mobile workstation. It doesn’t have the sleek looks of today’s ultraportable laptops, but it still touts that classic ThinkPad aesthetic and offers incredible power and flexibility. You get all of the latest technology — Thunderbolt 3, RTX graphics, Wi-Fi 6, etc. — in a form factor that still allows you to upgrade your memory and storage.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 11/20/2019
Source: Ultrabook Review
Archive.org versionThe ThinkPad P53 represents the best that Lenovo has to offer in a 15.6" workstation. The machine is bulky, but it packs a ton of power into a reasonably portable case. While I can appreciate the insane performance housed within the chassis, the high CPU/GPU operating temperatures and the occasional performance glitches under stress are concerning. Perhaps tuning the fan curve would help control component temperatures.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 11/12/2019
Rating: Total score: 75%
Source: Ultrabook Review
Archive.org versionThe ThinkPad P53 represents the best that Lenovo has to offer in a 15.6" workstation. The machine is bulky, but it packs a ton of power into a reasonably portable case. While I can appreciate the insane performance housed within the chassis, the high CPU/GPU operating temperatures and the occasional performance glitches under stress are concerning. Perhaps tuning the fan curve would help control component temperatures.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 11/12/2019
Rating: Total score: 75%
Source: Neowin
Archive.org versionTo be fair though, if you buy a ThinkPad P53, you're not buying it to write articles that will be published on the internet. You're buying it for much more power-intensive tasks than that, and the P53 has all the power. If you're going the mobile workstation route, the ThinkPad P53 is a sure bet. And unlike with last year's P52, I don't have to say that with a caveat since there was newer hardware coming. You're pretty future-proofed with this one.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 11/10/2019
Rating: Total score: 90%
Source: Neowin
Archive.org versionTo be fair though, if you buy a ThinkPad P53, you're not buying it to write articles that will be published on the internet. You're buying it for much more power-intensive tasks than that, and the P53 has all the power. If you're going the mobile workstation route, the ThinkPad P53 is a sure bet. And unlike with last year's P52, I don't have to say that with a caveat since there was newer hardware coming. You're pretty future-proofed with this one.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 11/10/2019
Rating: Total score: 90%
Lenovo ThinkPad P53-20QN0012PB
Specifications
Notebook: Lenovo ThinkPad P53-20QN0012PBProcessor: Intel Coffee Lake E-2276M
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q 16384 MB
Display: 15.60 inch, 16:9, 3840 x 2160 pixels
Weight: 2.5kg
Price: 6000 euro
Links: Lenovo homepage
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Average Score:
Reviews
Source: PC Mag
Archive.org versionNvidia's earth-shaking Quadro RTX 5000 makes the Lenovo ThinkPad P53 one of the most powerful mobile workstations you can buy. It's hefty and pricey, but it obliterates big workflows like nobody's business.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 11/12/2019
Rating: Total score: 80%
Foreign Reviews
Source: Laptopkalauz
HU→EN Archive.org versionPositive: Powerful hardware; elegant design; good input. Negative: Poor display.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 04/19/2020
Lenovo ThinkPad P53-20QN002VMX
Specifications
Notebook: Lenovo ThinkPad P53-20QN002VMXProcessor: Intel Coffee Lake i7-9750H
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA Quadro T1000 (Laptop)
Display: 15.60 inch, 16:9, 1920 x 1080 pixels
Weight: 2.5kg
Links: Lenovo homepage
Price comparison
Average Score:
Foreign Reviews
Source: Smartmania.cz
CZ→EN Archive.org versionSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 04/26/2020
Rating: Total score: 87% features: 92% display: 74% mobility: 86% workmanship: 89%
Source: Alt om Data
DA→EN Archive.org versionSingle Review, online available, Medium, Date: 12/20/2019
Rating: Total score: 100% price: 60% performance: 100% display: 100% mobility: 80% workmanship: 90%
Comment
Lenovo: Lenovo ("Le" from English legend, novo (Latin) for new) was founded in 1984 as a Chinese computer trading company. As of 2004, the company was the largest laptop manufacturer in China and, after acquiring IBM's PC division in 2005, the fourth largest in the world. In addition to desktops and notebooks, the company manufactures monitors, projectors, servers, etc, and specializes in developing, manufacturing and marketing consumer electronics, personal computers, software, enterprise solutions and related services.
In 2016, the company ranked first in the world in computer sales. It still held it in 2023 with about 23% global market share. Important product lines are Thinkpad, Legion and Ideapad.
In 2011, it acquired a majority stake in Medion AG, a European computer hardware manufacturer. In 2014, Motorola Mobility was purchased, which gave Lenovo a boost in the smartphone market.
With these GPUs you are able to play modern and demanding games fluently at medium detail settings and HD resolution.
NVIDIA Quadro T1000 (Laptop): Mid range dedicated graphics card for professional laptops based on the consumer GTX 1650 but with less shaders. Therefore it uses the Turing architecture without raytracing and Tensor cores.
NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q: Professional high-end laptop graphics card based on the TU104 chip with 3,072 shaders and 16 GB GDDR6 VRAM. Compared to the normal mobile variant, the Max-Q variants are clocked lower and work in a more efficient state. Currently, we know of three variants with different clock speeds and power consumptions (80, 85 and 90 W).
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Intel Coffee Lake:
i5-9400H: On Coffee Lake architecture based processor for big and heavy laptops. Integrates four processor cores clocked at 2.5 - 4.3 GHz (4.1 GHz with 4 cores) that support HyperThreading. Manufactured in an improved 14nm process (14nm++).
i7-9850H: On Coffee Lake architecture based processor for big and heavy laptops. Integrates six processor cores clocked at 2.6 - 4.6 GHz (4 GHz with 6 cores) that support HyperThreading. Manufactured in an improved 14nm process (14nm++).
E-2276M: On Coffee Lake architecture based professional processor for big and heavy laptops. Integrates six processor cores clocked at 2.8 - 4.7 GHz that support HyperThreading / SMT (12 threads). Manufactured in an improved 14nm process (14nm++). Compared to the similar consumer Intel Core i7-9850H, the Xeon is clocked a bit higher (100 - 200 MHz) and offers support for ECC main memory.
i7-9750H: A high-performance hexa-core processor of the Coffee Lake product family designed for the larger laptops. Integrates six processor cores clocked at 2.6 - 4.5 GHz (4 GHz with 6 cores) that support HyperThreading. Manufactured in an improved 14nm process (14nm++).
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
2.5 kg:
2.688 kg:
With this weight, a laptop is rather heavier than average. Devices in this range shine more with screen size and performance than with mobility.
84.68%: This rating is slightly above average, there are somewhat more devices with worse ratings. However, clear purchase recommendations look different.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
