With the proper settings, the ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 5 is extremely fast

December 23, 2022 By Raulf Hernes

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It's hot and pricey, but it's powerful and, in some ways, a better option than Dell's XPS 15. It includes Intel's 12th-generation Alder Lake CPUs but retains Nvidia's RTX 3000-series GPUs. It has the standard Lenovo laptop keyboard, as well as a pointing nub and trackpad. It's up there with the best in a laptop from Lenovo, Apple, or any other brand. It has two hard drive expansion slots, and it's easy to upgrade and repair. Lenovo still publishes a hardware maintenance manual (PDF) to help people perform those and other upgrades and repairs. The 16-inch screen can be configured in a variety of ways, with refresh prices ranging from 60 to 165 Hz. The base model has a 19201200 display, which is a decrease from the 25601600 display that was the low-end option the year before. The XPS 15 laptop from Lenovo has two 4K IPS screens, one with touch and one without. The top-tier 38402400 IPS touchscreen is vibrant and sharp, but it has a limited color gamut coverage. The DCI-P3 gamut is covered by Apple's MacBook Pros and Dell's OLED screen, but it's not a must-have feature for everyone.

The latest Core i7-12800H processor from Lenovo has six P-cores, eight E-cores, and a slew of small E-cores. They won't help much with gaming or general light-to-medium-duty computing, but anyone doing CPU-based video encoding will appreciate the boost. All laptops use slightly different power settings for their CPUs depending on the preset you select, but the difference is so pronounced in ThinkPads that even non-technical users will recognize it. Even in Balanced mode, the X1 Extreme barely makes it past the six-hour mark in our PCMark battery life test. The fourth-generation model looks better here, but with its lower-resolution screen and weaker RTX 3060 GPU, it's impossible to pin the drop on a single component. A 16-inch 25601600 screen, in our opinion, is still quite sharp and much easier on the battery

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With the proper settings, the ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 5 is extremely fast

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