These feature make the ThinkPad P16 Gen 3 a local AI powerhouse

Mobile workstations were traditionally used for applications like 3D rendering or compiling, but with the advent of the AI era, they have a new use: Local AI. Compared to normal laptops, mobile workstations are uniquely suitable for this, as they almost always come equipped with dedicated GPUs.

Case in point: The Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Gen 3 we recently tested, which contains an Nvidia RTX Pro 3000. This GPU provides 992 TOPS, and 12 GB of dedicated fast GDDR7 VRAM. If that is not enough, the P16 can be configured with up to the Nvidia RTX Pro 5000, which doubles the VRAM to 24 GB and delivers up to 1824 TOPS.

Of course, that is not the only trick this versatile laptop has up its sleeve. There also is the fact that this 16-inch powerhouse model provides a total of four SO-DIMM RAM slots, which enables up to 192 GB (4x 48 GB). The RAM is not the fastest, as it is just ordinary DDR5-5600, but just the raw capacity is something that most other laptops can not match. In total, you can have 24 GB of fast VRAM and 192 GB of slower DDR5 RAM.

Last, but certainly not least, there is storage. This ThinkPad has not just one, but three SSD slots - 2x NVMe PCIe 4.0 and 1x NVMe PCIe 5.0. Lenovo sells it with a maximum of 12 TB of storage, or three 4 TB SSDs.

The Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Gen 3 may not have the fast unified memory of some other platforms, but it has another thing: Capacity. Which is why this is a device uniquely suited for local AI.