No OLED on Strix Point ThinkPads: Lenovo artificially limits its AMD models to WUXGA IPS

AMD has two different mainstream Ryzen AI CPU lines for laptops at the moment: Krackan Point, which covers the mid-range with octacore CPUs, and Strix Point, their high-end offering that offers up to 12 CPU cores. Of course, for enthusiasts, Strix Point is the much more interesting offer, as it is a big performance boost over earlier AMD CPUs - Krackan Point, not so much.

In the realm of Lenovo's legendary ThinkPad laptop series for the business sector, there are currently only three ThinkPad laptops with AMD Strix Point - everything else AMD is limited to Krackan Point. We just reviewed one of those three Strix Point ThinkPads, the Lenovo ThinkPad P16s Gen 4 AMD. And like with the other two Strix Point ThinkPads, which are the Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 AMD and the Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 6 AMD (available on Amazon), there is something peculiar about the specifications: Lenovo does not offer these laptops with OLED screens.

What makes this fact so peculiar: There are OLED options for each of these models. But when you configure them with their respective Strix Point options, the OLED panels are suddenly no longer available. Only on the Krackan Point versions it is, meaning the best AMD CPU you can combine with an OLED screen is the AMD Ryzen AI 7 Pro 350.

We see no technical reason why OLED and Strix Point should not work. That leaves only one possible option: Lenovo artificially limits the OLED display options to certain models as a sales strategy. Which means that users who want the most powerful AMD options in a ThinkPad have to use a WUXGA (1,920 y 1,200) IPS panel, as there is no other option.