Lenovo ThinkPad P50

Last Update: 2016-06-03 4:43 AM

first posted: 2016-02-01

announced : 2015/08/11 http://news.lenovo.com/news+releases/lenovo-thinkpad-p50-p70.htm (press release moved)

main page : http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/p-series/p50/, https://www.thinkworkstations.com/products/p50/

forum - https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-P-and-W-Series-Mobile/bd-p/tp07_en, http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/announcing-thinkpad-p-series-p50-and-p70.779841/page-45,

spec - https://djpdld25uved3.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/WW_DS_ThinkPad_P50_Final_10.1.15.pdf

support - http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/products/laptops-and-netbooks/thinkpad-p-series-laptops/thinkpad-p50

user guide - https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/p50_ug_en.pdf

video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrpHLTBEH10, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phGz0bhspgk

HMM - https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/p50_hmm_en_sp40j71944.pdf (20151115)

 

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Spec

Price

Accessories

 

CPU - Handbrake

http://handbrake.fr/

Handbrake - 2h10m 7.27GB DVD

  fps Model CPU clock RAM OS  
6m22s 614 P50 E3-1505M v5 2.80GHz 16GB Windows 7 Pro 64-bit 0.10.3 Intel QSV
8m09s 480 P50 E3-1505M v5 2.80GHz 16GB Windows 7 Pro 64-bit 0.10.3 H.264
11m03s 354 Surface Book i7-6600U 2.6GHz (Turbo 3.4GHz) 8GB Windows 10 64-bit 0.10.2 Intel QSV
14m26s 270 ThinkPad Yoga 12 i5-5200U 2.2GHz (Turbo 2.7GHz) 8GB Windows 8.1 64-bit 0.10.1 Intel QSV
19m32s 200 ThinkPad Yoga 12 i5-5200U 2.2GHz (Turbo 2.7GHz) 8GB Windows 8.1 64-bit 0.9.8 (use the newer versions instead for work, this is for the purpose of comparison with older results only)
15m46s 247 X1C3 i5-5200U 2.2GHz (Turbo 2.7GHz) 8GB Windows 8.1 64-bit 0.10.1 H.264 (x264)
36m35s 107 MBP13r2015e i5-5257U 2.7GHz (Turbo 3.1GHz) 16GB OS X 10.10.1 0.10.1 H.264 (x264) no Intel QSV
11m03s 353 Asus UX 501 i7-4720HQ 2.6GHz (Turbo 3.6GHz) 16GB Windows 8.1 64-bit 0.10.1 Intel QSV
19m28s   X1 Carbon Gen 2 i5-4200U 1.60GHz (Turbo to ? GHz) 4/8GB Windows 8.1 64-bit  
21m33s 181 X1 Carbon Gen 2 i5-4300U 1.90GHz (Turbo to 2.12-2.17GHz) 8GB Windows 8.1 64-bit Intel 240GB SSD
19m29s 200 ThinkPad S1 Yoga i5-4300U 1.90GHz (Turbo to 2.23-2.33GHz) 8GB Windows 8.1 64-bit Lite-On 256GB SSD
20m56s 186 Sony VAIO Pro 13 i7-4500U 1.80GHz (runing at 1.60GHz even at 86% utilitzation using high performance profile, cannot Turbo to 3.0GHz) 8GB Windows 8.1 64-bit  
16m32s 236 X1 Carbon Touch i7-3667U 2.00GHz (Turbo to 2.95GHz) 8GB Windows 8 64-bit  
21m28s 182 Surface Pro i5-3317U 1.70GHz (Turbo to 2.38GHz) 4GB Windows 8.1 64-bit  
17m00s 229 T430s i5-3320 2.60GHz 4GB Windows 7 32-bit  
10m01s 389 M14R2 i7-3610QM 2.30GHz 16GB Windows 7 HP 64-bit mSATA boot, data on HDD
19m27s 200 T420s i5-2520 2.50GHz 3GB Windows 7 32-bit Intel mSATA boot, not enough room, source on Seagate BackUp Plus FAST STDA4000100 USB 3.0
11m17s 345 W520 i7-2720QM 2.20GHz (Turbo to 2.69-2.97GHz 16GB Windows 8 64-bit (Samsung 840 PRO RAPID mode enabled DXM06B0Q firmware
26m50s 145 T410 i5-M520 2.40GHz 3GB Windows 7 32-bit  

Adobe Media Encoder

10 seconds 4K MP4 to H.264 high bitrate

31 seconds P50 2015.1
28 seconds Asus ZenBook Pro UX501 i7-4720HQ 2.6/turbo 3.6 GHz GTX 960M 2GB GDDR5, 16GB, 512GB
36 seconds Microsoft Surface Book i7-6600U 2.6/turbo 3.4 GHz (HD graphics 520 + dGPU), 8GB, 256GB
52 seconds Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro 13 i7-4500 1.80GHz/2.40 GHz (*Pr 2014.2 release 8.2.0 (65) build) 8GB, 256GB
53 seconds MacBook Pro 13" retina 2015 i5-5257U 2.7/turbo 3.1 GHz, 16GB, 256GB
114 seconds Sony VAIO Pro 13 i7-4500 1.80GHz (low @0.79GHz) 8GB, 256GB

Pr 2015.0.2 release 9.0.2 (6) build prior to P50

 

WinSAT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_System_Assessment_Tool

MB/s
P50 Surface Book ThinkPad Yoga 12 X1 Carbon Gen 3 Dell E7450 MBP13r2015e i5-5257U 2.7GHz 16GB RAM Parallels VM ThinkPad Yoga X1 Carbon Gen 2 Helix X1 Carbon W8E32 Taichi T430s T420s
W520 T510 T400/W500
CPU LZW Compression
531.20 342.62 223.87 224.28 243.04 210.4 238.02 238.65 206.07 174.59 243.92 267.54 220.56
495.30 171.94 119.46
CPU AES256 Encryption
268.10 1792.68 1194.67 1240.40 1290.37 802.01 1235.14 1263.36 100.92 83.69 117.71 129.63     106.00 228.19 77.55 62.17
CPU Vista Compression
1363.39 883.12 619.26 616.20 664.58 555.69 636.75 637.11 553.80 601.28 650.05 719.58+ 745.99 1311.40 569.76 368.56
CPU SHA1 Hash 1886.50 1012.66 776.25 915.12 842.94 904.49 773.47 958.79 633.67 545.80 739.87 891.80 653.23 1397.21 420.36 568.14
Uniproc CPU LZW Compression
98.96 140.69 92.78 94.20 101.36 105.46 88.0 101.89 83.63 68.99 99.44 107.72 78.42 94.79+ 69.51 61.87
Uniproc CPU AES256 Encryption 68.02 502.98 348.78 348.94 374.74 401.22 336.45 375.10 52.10 39.29 60.44 66.43 46.34 59.53 38.03 32.76
Uniproc CPU Vista Compression 250.45 365.86 246.50 248.56 267.06 279.36 226.55 263.23 208.13 237.40 243.24 273.65 261.65 251.55+ 207.42 194.03
Uniproc CPU SHA1 Hash 389.91 512.41 396.99 396.57 427.02 456.57 383.90 428.47 357.95 304.14 413.22 420.78 319.53 343.79+ 238.53 297.66
Dshow Video Encode Time (s) 1.20129 1.99885 2.77823 2.78059 2.59370 2.76760 2.70669 2.67998 2.88483 2.75325 2.46806 2.45161 2.61391 1.45114 3.35620 5.31552
Memory Performance 9936.13 24221.42 15685.87 16124.03 15918.68 20998.80 15798.61 17305.41 12898.00 12785.98 14939.07 15768.97 13239.94 9235.90+ 6194.03 5322.44

GeekBench

http://www.primatelabs.com/geekbench/download/windows/

v3.3.2 x32

performance P50 single-core P50 multi-core Surface Book single-core Surface Book multi-core ThinkPad Yoga 12
single core
ThinkPad Yoga 12 multi-core

X1C3
single-core score

X1C3
multi-core score
Dell E7450 single Dell 7450 multi Apple MBP13r (early 2015) single Apple MBP13r (early 2015) multi Asus UX501 single core Asus UX501 multi-core

X1C2
4300U
single-core

X1C2
4300U
multi-core
ThinkPad Yoga
4200U
single
ThinkPad Yoga
4200U
multi
  2616 10504 3370 6991 2686 5364 2738 5411 2846 5661 2908 6133 3299 12089 2770 5289 2560 4777
integer 2792 11812 3353 7826 2649 5913 2688 5948 2880 6331 3009 7090 3384 13871 2716 5975 2454 5282
floating point 2779 13494 3294 7776 2638 5867 2678 5935 2872 6388 3019 7029 3396 14808 2696 5752 2444 5214
memory 1941 1912 3560 3755 2860 3260 3959 3292 2729 2871 2487 2429 2939 3091 3030 2992 3004 2897

PCMark

http://www.futuremark.com/benchmarks/pcmark

PCMark 8 Home

  P50 (2.6.512 - Accelerated OpenCL - crashed mouse) Surface Book (Accelerated OpenCL) Surface Book (Conventional 2.5.419) ThinkPad Yoga 12 (2.0.228 accelerated 3.0) X1C3 (2.4.304)
Score 2993 2922 2513 3156 3085
Test Duration 39 m 43s 39 m 13 s 33 m 07 s 35 m 46 s 35 m 59 s
Web Browsing - JunglePin 0.35475 s 0.38424 s 0.38293 s 0.32406 s 0.32439 s
Web Browsing - Amazonia 0.14391 s 0.16389 s 0.16361 s 0.13418 s 0.13423 s
Writing 7.26094 s 5.86848 s 5.88563 s 4.5 s 4.4 s
Casual Gaming 26.55 fps 33.26 fps 33.16 fps 26 fps 26 fps
Video Chat v2 / Video Chat playback 1 v2 30.02 fps 30.01 fps 29.99 fps 30 fps 30 fps
Video Chat v2 / Video Chat encoding v2 45.66667 ms 64.00000 ms 99.00000 ms 82 ms 84 ms
Advanced Photo Editing part 1 0.24134 s 0.29573 s 0.58725 s 0.24269 s 0.28395 s

SiSoftware Sandra

http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/

  P50 2015-2147 Surface Book 2015 SP3 2147 ThinkPad Yoga 12 2015-SP1a 21.32.2015.3 X1C3 ThinkPad Yoga
4200U**
2014.05.20.28
ThinkPad Yoga
4300U*
X1 Carbon Gen 2
4300U
X1 Carbon W8E32 T430s W7E64 SSD T420s W7E64 SSD W520 W8E64 SSD
Score kPT 9.14 9.98 7.63 7.65 3.20 3.95/4.02 3.27 3.98 4.17
4.36 (2012-1845)
4.18 7.04
Aggregate Native Performance GOPS 88.15 50.73 40.71 40.81       34.75 49.22 43.19 80.87
Aggregate Multi-Media Native Performance MPix/s 237.46 134.36 92.15 92.33       64.88 111.00 98.06 185.78
Cryptographic Bandwidth GB/s 4.301 3.735 2.930 2.935       0.763 1.32 1.138 1.937
Aggregate Option Pricing Performance kOPT/s 15.46 8.47 6.67 6.65              
Aggregate Scientific Performance GFLOPS 11.21 11.88 10.16 10.62              
Aggregate .NET Performance GOPS 25.38 15.20 10.86 10.79       10.53 13.14 12.59 22.44
Aggregate Memory Performance GB/s 10.167 19.203 18.596 18.435       16.231 10.748 12.341 17.191
Memory Latency ns 32.7 44.3 30.4 28.9       55.1 26.6 26.6 29.2
Drive Score IOPS MB/s 1831.244 489.389 434.360 435.597       396.608 422.204 420.774
(60.298 HDD 2011?)
506.368
Device Score IOPS 2620.8 12271.3 12624.0 12871.8       10440.2 4162.3 9995.9 15286.9
Aggregate Shader Performance MPix/s (GP (GPU/CPU/APU) 90.65 193.89 91.16 89.12       126.61 73.95 32.48 126.40
Aggregate Option Pricing Performance kOPT/s (GP)

errors

118.82

244.57 85.75 86.52              
Aggregate Scientific Performance GFLOPS (GP)

errors

28.69

109.91 39.48 38.72              
Aggregate Memory Performance GB/s (GP)

error

5.891

6.941 10.212 9.856       6.474 5.850 5.855 11.026

2014 SP1C 20.25 -

* didn't completely finished test first time. mouse crashed on second time.

** Aggregate Memory not reported, OpenCL error 339

PassMark

http://www.passmark.com/

  P50 (v8 1053) Surface Book (v8 1052) ThinkPad Yoga 12 (v8 b1046) X1 Carbon Gen 3 Dell E7450 Asus UX501 X1 Carbon Gen 2 4300U Intel 240GB ThinkPad Yoga 4200U Samsung 128GB X1 Carbon W8E32 (v8) T430s (v7) T420s (v7)
Rating   3212 2026.1 2094.7 2136.7 3423.1 1764.5 1954.7 1558.1 1548.9 1061.1
CPU Mark 7062 4788 3893 3921 4114 8905 3177 3574 2592 4535.0 3099.7
2D Graphics Mark 582 477.6 513 542 567 587 485.6 575 454 433.0 356.8
3D Graphics Mark

DirectX 9 Simple 44.9

DirectX 9 Complex crashed

DirectX 10 14.4

DirectX 1115.8

Compute 1749

10341* 566 577 594 1205 423.2 519 432 478.2 300.7
Memory Mark 1749 1998 1929 2012 1959 2229 1770 1864 1254 1324.5 948.2
Disk Mark 13854 6929 2814 3088 2786 10362 4442 2527 3451 792.5 462.1

 

IntelBurnTest

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?197835-IntelBurnTest-The-new-stress-testing-program

v2.54

  P50 Surface Book ThinkPad Yoga 12 X1 Carbon Gen 3 Dell XPS 13 5200U MBP13r2015e VM Asus UX501 X1 Carbon Gen 2 4300U ThinkPad Yoga
4200U
X1 Carbon
W8E32 (v2.54)
T430s (v2.53) T420s (v2.53)
Linepack (GFlops) 67.9432-68.5681 41.0359-46.9162 32.6463-33.5862 32.4892-36.3534 34.6988-35.6970 30.5470-38.5278 69.7684-75.0862 24.2526-27.5642 29.4538-32.9418 26.6-26.9 ~35-36  ~28-29
time (s) 13.036-13.156 19.053-21.783 26.615-27.381 24.589-27.513 25.013-25.761 23.201-29.263 11.905-12.812 32.429-36.857 27.135-30.349 33.2-33.5    

 

JetStream

http://browserbench.org/JetStream/

ms P50 Geometric Mean P50 Latency P50 Throughput Surface Book Geometric Mean Surface Book Latency Surface Book Throughput
Edge       186.41 ± 28.469 149.22 ± 44.702 221.75 ± 7.7656
IE 114.97 ± 5.7087 118.45 ± 9.3325 112.36 ± 3.0839    

 

FF 140.59 ± 18.789 (44.0) 74.042 ± 20.320 231.14 ± 17.948 162.67 ± 4.4407 (42.0) 80.454 ± 1.9045 280.28 ± 11.654
Chrome            
Safari            
Vivaldi            

SunSpider

http://www.webkit.org/perf/sunspider/sunspider.html

1.0.2

ms P50 Surface Book ThinkPad Yoga 12 X1C3 Dell E7450 Apple MBP13r (early 2015) Asus UX501 ThinkPad Yoga S1 X1 Carbon Gen 2 X1 Carbon W8E32 Taichi W8-64 T430s W7E32 HDD T420s W7E32 mSATA W520 W8E64 SSD
Edge   93.9                        
IE  

92.6
(11.0.10240.16431 11.0.22)

111.3 124.4 (11.0.9600.17728) 103.7   87.1 105.8 113.5 (11.0.9600.16521 update 11.0.4) 141.7 (10 desktop) 120.6 (10 desktop) 129.9 (10 metro) 183.9 (9) 203.3 (9) 113.0 (10 desktop)
FF 209.1 216.9 (42.0) 192.4 192.6 212.7

160.4 (37.0.1)

154.5 (31.6.0 ESR)

170.8 181.2 (28.0 no addons/plugins)
191.2 (27.0.1)
  231.6 (19.0.1) 211.4 (19.0.1) 188.7 (19.0) 203.1 (19.0) 197.7 (19.0.1)
Chrome     213.9 206.6 (42.0.2311.90m) 220.0 180.3 (41.0.2272.118)   194.1   204.8 (25.0.1364.97) 190.2 (25.0.1364.97) 175.3 (25.0.1364.97) 194.7 (25.0.1364.97)

169.2 (25.0.1364.152)

Safari           139.6 (8.0.5)                

CPU-Z

http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html

1.75.0 x64

HWInfo

http://www.hwinfo.com/

5.12-2740 (no new version still said update available)

Monitor - LEN40BD LQ156D1JW05

how are notebookcheck using oscilloscope and photosensor to check gray-to-gray, white-to-black? no details on setup.

- Tektronix DPO5104 http://www.tek.com/oscilloscope/mso5000-dpo5000 digital scope and Thorlabs DET36A https://www.thorlabs.com/thorproduct.cfm?partnumber=DET36A 350-1100nfsoum, 14 ns rise time, 13 mm2 Si detector, $118

dimming appears around 50% brigtness on battery, ~250Hz PWM

LCD - color/brightness

x-rite i1display pro i1profiler 1.4.2- http://www.xrite.com/product_overview.aspx?ID=1454

turn adaptive brightness off

(previous - still crash if ADC on, compare profile also crash like Helix?)

Datacolor Spyder4Pro 4.5.4 - http://spyder.datacolor.com/portfolio-view/spyder4pro/

pending

LCD - viewing angle

pending

Maxon CineBench

http://www.maxon.net/products/cinebench/overview.html

R15

 

  P50 Surface Book ThinkP Yoga 12 X1 Carbon Gen 3 Dell E7450 MBP13r2015e MBP13r2015e i5-5257U 2.7GHz 16GB RAM Parallels VM Asus UX501 ThinkPad Yoga
OpenGL (fps) 56.83 30.58 28.96 28.38 30.91 25.43 25.39 91.86 24.5
Ref. Match 99.6% 99.6% 98.0% 98.0% 98.0% 99.3% 97.9% 99.6% 98%
CPU (cb) 589 328 230 254 281 302 213 615 226
CPU (Single Core) (cb) 118 136 79 110 92 124 112 138 81
MP Ratio 5.00x 2.41x 2.91x 2.30x 3.49x 2.43x 1.90x 4.46x 2.45x

Unigine Heaven 4.0

https://unigine.com/products/heaven/

  P50 1920x1080 Surface Book 1920x1080 High max. 78 °C Surface Book system 3000x2000 TP Yoga 12 Ultra TP Yoga 12 High X1C3 MBP13r2015 High MBP13r2015 Med Asus UX501 high Asus UX501 medium ThinkPad Yoga
FPS 44.4 21.0 6.3 7.9 9.0 9.1 10.9 12.2 42.8 47.4 6.1
Score 1119 530 158 200 226 228 276 208 1078 1194 153
Min FPS 8.2 14.2 3.2 5.5 4.7 4.7 2.7 2.8 8.2 12.8 3.8
Max FPS 83.9 39.6 13.5 13.9 16.1 16.0 20.6 22.1 78.8 82.7 11.5

Unigine Valley 1.0

https://unigine.com/products/valley/

(save result button doesn't work with trackpoint, need to use keyboard)

  P50 Surface Book (1280x720 High) Surface Book (1920x1080 High max. 72 °C) Surface Book (3000x2000 High) TP Yoga 12 Ultra TP Yoga 12 High X1C3 MBP13r2015e High MBP13r2015e Med asus UX501 High ThinkPad Yoga
FPS 44.5 42.9 23.3 7.8 7.2 8.4 8.8 9.9-10.2 11.8 39.5 3.7
Score 1862 1793 975 326 301 351 367 413-427 493 1653 153
Min FPS 18.1 22.3 15.1 4.4 4.3 4.8 5.1 5.1-5.3 6.7 17.7 2.1
Max FPS 81.5 70.9 43.1 14.4 11.5 13.5 14.4 17.2 18.1 72.8 6.7

FurMark

http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/

http://www.geeks3d.com/20150828/furmark-1-17-0-gpu-stress-test-opengl-benchmark/

1.17.0.0

720 preset

  P50 (max. 63 °C, min. 39°C) Surface Book (max. 73 °C) ThinkPad Yoga 12 (1.15.1.0) X1 Carbon Gen 3 Dell E7450 Asus UX501 X1 Carbon Gen 2 4300U ThinkPad Yoga 4200U X1 Carbon
points 2928 1161 446 446 507 3958 346 413 423
fps 48 19 7 7 8 65 5 6 7
60000 ms (min:44, max: 60) (min:19, max: 21) (min 8, max 9 - huh, and avg 7?) (min:7, max: 11) (min:8, max:10) (min:57, max: 80 - options:DynBkg) (min:6, max:9) (min:7, max:10)  

3D Mark

http://www.3dmark.com/

 

CPU & GPU not recognized, graphics driver not approved

  Score Graphics Physics Combined
Ice Storm 1.2

P50 21198 v1.5.915.64)

(Surface Book 16551 v1.5.915 64)
(TPYoga12 46630 v1.5.884.0)
(X1C3 43935)
(E7450 52816)
(XPS 13 52915 (better than 7% of all results))
(X1C2 39209)
(X1C1 31733)

P50 19984 (88.92/84.94 fps)

(Surface Book 15576 (68.1/67.36 fps))
(TPYoga12 51287 (221.31/224.69 fps))
(X1C3 47254 (211.51/199.74 fps))
(E7450 59778 (255.57/264.39 fps))
(XPS 13 61463 (262.79/271.83 fps))
(X1C2 44344 (213.93/175.47 fps))
(X1C1 35603 (168/144 fps))

P50 26925 (85.48 fps)

(Surface Book 21196 (67.29 fps))
(TPYoga12 35385 (112.33 fps))
(X1C3 35266 (111.96 fps))
(E7450 37523 (119.12 fps))
(XPS 13 35591 (112.99 fps))
(X1C2 27902 (88.58 fps))
(X1C1 22989 (73 fps))

 
Cloud Gate 1.1

P50 12611

(Surface Book 7741)
(TPYoga12 5099)
(X1C3 5022)
(E7450 5306)
(XPS 13 5246)
(X1C2 4083)
(X1C1 3425)

P50 18625 (79.42/82.6 fps)

(Surface Book 11236 (46.28/51.72 fps))
(TPYoga12 6478 (28.91/27.47 fps))
(X1C3 6262 (27.85/26.64 fps))
(E7450 28.76/18.42 fps)
(XPS 13 6754 (29.59/29.15 fps))
(X1C2 5066 (22.44/21.63 fps))
(X1C1 4172 (18/19 fps))

P50 5921 (18.8 fps)

(Surface Book 3707 (11.77 fps))
(TPYoga12 2923 (9.28 fps))
(X1C3 2967 (9.42 fps))
(E7450 3166 (10.05 fps))
(XPS 13 2945 (9.35 fps))
(X1C2 2432 (7.72 fps))
(X1C1 2106 (7 fps))

 
Fire Strike 1.1

P50 3733

(Surface Book 1900)
(TPYoga12 717)
(X1C3 696)
(E7450 742)
(XPS 13 752)
(X1C2 531 (7% of all results))
(X1C1 483)

P50 4040 (19.27/16.14 fps)

(Surface Book 2035 (9.96/7.96 fps))
(TPYoga12 772 (3.6/3.15 fps))
(X1C3 748 (3.51/3.03 fps))
(E7450 788)
(XPS 13 810 (3.85/3.25 fps))
(X1C2 592 (2.75/2.42 fps))
(X1C1 532 (2/2 fps))

P50 8306 (26.37 fps)

(Surface Book 5355 (17.00 fps))
(TPYoga12 3786 (12.02 fps))
(X1C3 4172 (13.25 fps))
(E7450 4507)
(XPS 13 4176 (13.26 fps))
(X1C2 3518 (11.17 fps))
(X1C1 2968 (9 fps))

P50 1559 (7.25 fps)

(Surface Book 772 (3.59 fps))
(TPYoga12 262 (1.22 fps))
(X1C3 252 1.17fps))
(E7450 276)
(XPS 13 273 (1.27 fps))
(X1C2 182 (0.85 fps))
(X1C1 164 (0.76 fps))

Sky Diver 1.0

P50 11146

(Surface Book 6129 )
(TPYoga12 2562)
(X1C3 2539)
(E7450 2718)
(XPS 13 2774)

P50 12816 (55.77/61.56 fps)

(Surface Book 6331 (27.63/30.32 fps))
(TPYoga12 2410 (11.45/10.6 fps))
(X1C3 2402 (11.63/10.38 fps))
(E7450 2562 (12.34/11.13 fps))
(XPS 13 2631 (12.89/11.25 fps))

P50 6803 (65.64 fps)

(Surface Book 4874 (67.3 fps))
(TPYoga12 4049 (71.63 fps))
(X1C3 3835 (73.98 fps 8 threads))
(E7450 4168 (70.94 fps))
(XPS 13 4076 (70.28 fps))

P50 10933 (44.99 fps)

(Surface Book 7196 (29.62 fps))
(TPYoga12 2384 (9.81 fps))
(X1C3 2358 (9.71 fps))
(E7450 2552 (10.51 fps))
(XPS 13 2597)

VMD

http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/

1.9.2

DNA.pdb

  P50 (non-CUDA) Surface Book (CUDA) ThinkPad Yoga 12 X1C3 Asus UX501 Asus UX501 CUDA ThinkPad Yoga
fps

56-64 (CPK)

1795 (line)

59-62 2140 1750 3994 60 3172

Chimera

http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/benchmark/benchmark.html

http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/

1.10.2

pythonw crashed during solid rendering, max. out RAM and disk at 100%, have to be terminated in taskmgr

molecule benchmark PDB 1f4h

  P50 Surface Book ThinkPad Yoga 12 (1.10.1) X1 Carbon Gen 3 (1.10.1) MBP13r2015e asus UX501 X1 Carbon Gen 2 (1.8.1) X1 Carbon (1.7) T410 (1.41) W520 (1.52)
null 1943 1526.9 4513.0 4734.8 6120.0 3777.6 2747.2 2942.8    
wireframe 352.6 386.5 536.7 353.0 634.2 342.4 370.8 127.6   196.1
stick 11.0 11.7 9.0 10.9 5.0 12.6 2.3 1.9 12.2  
ball-stick 10.9 11.6 8.8 10.7 5.1 12.6 2.3 1.9 12.3 32.9
ribbon 293.0 483.7 533.5 161.0 349.8 219.5 195.5 132.8    
sphere 16.2 20.2 16.1 18.8 8.3 22.3 4.4 3.7 14.1  
ops 92.1 81.4 90.7 89.6 75.9 106.6 92.4 78.2    
surface (volume) 956 529 435 259 12422 359 437      
mesh crashed 527 433 292 1043 289 377      
contour 283 308 271 275 268 303 279      
solid 512 crashed crashed crashed 748 512 560      
recolor 311 603 306 293 491 251 278      

NVIDIA

control panel, system topology

problem installing digital audio driver first connect

have to delete and reinstall

mirror mode worked first time, stop working next time connect, think mirror to P530 integrated at 1280x720

(simulated according to registry
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\DISPLAY
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers\Configuration
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers\Connectivity ),

nothing on external mDP-HDMI. have to go back to nvidia control panel to fix (the thunderbolt tray icon would appear for no reason for)

sometimes audio show not connected also, need reboot to fix.

Adobe Photoshop has problem if auto detect

http://www.adobe.com/go/photoshop_gpu_cc_en

if choose integrated, it works. cannot change back to auto or discreet

Artboards complains about not good GPU

GPU-Z

http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

0.8.6

SSD

Samsung NVMe MZVKV512 (SM951 OEM?)

C: 461GB capacity, 408GB free, 53.0GB used

Q: Lenovo Recovery 14.8GB, 3.36GB free

(REACHit Drive system folder)

according to Acronis TrueImage 2016

BIOS boot order

CrystalDiskInfo

http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html

6.7.x

NVMe driver works for OEM?

Magician not work for OEM?

 

CrystalDiskMark

http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskMark/index-e.html

(other data from 3.x)

  P50 (5.1.2 x64) P50 (5.1.1 x64) Surface Book (5.0.2 x64) 5.x ThinkPad Yoga 12 X1 Carbon Gen 3 Dell E7450 Dell XPS 13 Asus UX501 Yoga 3.03 X1 Carbon Gen 2 3.02e Helix 3.02e-X1 Carbon Win8E32 3.01-X1 Carbon Win7-64 W520 Intel 520 3.01-Win7-64 T430s Samsung 830
[MB/s] Read Write Read Write Read Write     Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write
Seq 1711 1538 1623 1531 891.0 303.7     523.4 238.1 529.3 241.6 490.5 264.1 476.9 265.6 1391 1401 503.4 418.0 482.6 318.2 445.8 183.5 429.6 178.1 433.4 247.1 487.9 403.5
512K                 439.7 241.6 431.7 240.9 387.7 258.4 385.5 265.1 1004 1264 377.7 402.8 421.9 312.6 339.4 194.1 375.2 177.1 353.5 239.0 342.6 389.2
Seq Q32T1 2265 1511 2293 1521 1574 308.4                                                
4K 57.24 207.9 57.44 205.9 40.51 108.1     35.78 103.4 35.83 103.2 23.09 97.25 21.27 97.20 40.20 90.03 33.95 86.38 38.81 99.90 21.42 43.33 19.66 41.43 19.67 48.08 22.34 55.89
4K QD32                 391.3 240.9 354.8 240.1 393.1 255.7 386.8 263.5 311.0 316.7 326.8 291.9 201.1 124.1 266.2 167.4 132.7 174.2 229.7 231.6 303.6 151.3
4K Q32T1 525.7 415.0 520.3 420.0 402.2 270.2                                                

Anvil's Storage Utilities

http://www.thessdreview.com/daily-news/latest-buzz/anvil-storage-utilities-releases-new-storage-and-ssd-benchmark/

1.1 2014

  P50 Surface Book ThinkP Yoga 12 X1 Carbon Gen 3 Asus UX501 ThinkPad Yoga 128GB Samsung 256GB Lite-On 4200U Intel 240GB 4300U X1C2 128GB Samsung 4200U
  8708.61 2783.68 4040.50 4072.80 6089.61 2994.40 3499.14 3,292.61 2699.12
Read 4363.17 2649.75 2049.63 2096.87 3484.81 1899.34 1719.02 1,879.18 1717.11
Write 4345.44 133.93 1990.87 1975.93 2604.80 1095.05 1780.11 1,413.43 982.01

 

AS SSD

http://alex-is.de/PHP/fusion/downloads.php?download_id=9

1.8.5636.36856

previous 1.7.4739.38088

  P50 Surface Book ThinkPad Yoga 12 X1 Carbon Gen 3 Dell XPS 13 Asus UX501 X1 Carbon Gen 2 4200U Samsung 128 ThinkPad Yoga
128GB Samsung MZ7TD128HAFV
ThinkPad Yoga 256GB Lite-On LCS-256M6S X1 Carbon Gen 2 4200U LiteOn 256 LGT-256M6G X1 Carbon Gen 2 4300U Intel 240 Sony VAIO Pro 13 Helix X1 Carbon W8E32 Intel 521 Taichi DH71 W8-64 SanDisk X100 256 T420s W7E64 SSD Crucial m4 256 W520 W8E64 SSD Samsung 840 Pro 256
  Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write Read Write
Seq MB/s 1796.16 1324.93 1166.76 89.87 506.39 231.20 507.90 230.54 478.43 249.45 1392.53 1102.09 497.32 127.20 507.95 125.24 487.51 412.39 483.63 405.74 502.41 301.85 1103.7 702.45 431.23 191.37 460.82 144.24 425.79 334.97 497.34 236.56 495.07 428.16
4K MB/s 48.74 153.02 37.53 0.90 32.50 88.29 32.38 88.31 20.70 83.58 35.23 76.57 23.49 68.92 27.64 80.15 31.42 73.90 27.92 59.28 21.08 87.71 28.19 72.68 19.37 46.60 17.71 36.66 19.94 37.80 15.77 47.41 20.96 56.06
4K-64 Thrd MB/s 817.03 407.65 590.97 40.25 343.04 158.41 287.56 165.22 396.22 125.14 818.06 365.57 312.66 94.40 316.32 97.27 302.24 254.33 214.31 193.71 209.83 213.81 408.85 225.73 260.56 116.36 132.65 131.29 300.55 158.42 177.53 168.36 379.90 247.79
Acc.time ms 0.035 0.022 0.052 4.333 0.061 0.038 0.055 0.038 0.157 0.040 0.048 0.048 0.032 0.052 0.078 0.042 0.058 0.049 failed failed 0.151 0.231 0.087 .055 0.122 0.362 0.195 0.284 0.134 0.100 0.124 0.522 0.113 0.044
Score 1045 693 745 50 426 270 371 277 465 234 993 552 386 176 395 190 382 369 291 294 281 332 547 369 323 182 196 182 363 230 243 239 450 347
  2262 1133 835 930 2044 748 777 955 739 754 1183 664 470 780 599 1029

 

ATTO Disk Benchmark

http://www.attotech.com/products/product.php?sku=Disk_Benchmark

BlackMagic

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/intensity/software

Disk Speed Test

10.5.4 2016

error on write

 

USB 3.0

 

pending

SSD to internal SSD

max.

xxx MBps transfer

xxx MBps write

xxx MBps read

to/from external Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SATA-III ASMT 2105 SCSI UASP StarTech enclosure http://www.startech.com/HDD/Enclosures/USB-3-SATA-III-Hard-Drive-Enclosure-UASP-Support~S2510BPU33

64.55GB OEM image ~4 min. using Acronis TrueImage 2016 Windows PE boot (ATI 2014 and ATI 2016 rescue media boot [*nix] won't recognize NVMe and external USB drive)

and Seagate Fast 4TB

http://www.seagate.com/external-hard-drives/portable-hard-drives/performance/backup-plus-fast-hdd/

 

Wireless

 

pending

 

Netgear Nighthawk R7500 AC2350 (600+1733 Mbps) http://downloadcenter.netgear.com/en/product/R7500 wave 2 Quantenna chipset firmware 1.0.0.46 -> 1.0.0.82 http://downloadcenter.netgear.com/en/product/R7500 -

max. xxxMbps/xx.xMBps - download from QNAP 4 (5-8 of 8 bays) SSD (2x 850 Pro 512 + 2x MX100 CT512) RAID6 TVS-871 (i7-4790S, 16GB, QTS 4.1.3 build 20150313) https://www.qnap.com/i/en/product/model.php?II=160

max. xxxMbps/xx.xMBps (xx.xxMBps on server side) - upload to OCZ Vertex 460A + MX200 CT250 + SanDisk XPS240Gx2

 

Netgear Nighthawk R7000 AC 1900 (600+1300) (firmware V1.0.3.24_1.1.20) 802.11ac http://www.netgear.com/home/products/networking/wifi-routers/R7000.aspx

33.2MBps download from Synology DiskStation DS1511+ Atom D525 1.8GHz 1GB DSM 5.1-5004 SHR 5x ST2000DL003-9VT166

xxxMbps/xx.xMBps download from QNAP 6x Seagate ST3000DM001-9YN1CC4H RAID6 TS-659 Pro II 1GB, QTS 4.1.3 build 20150313)

TamoSoft Throughput Test

 

pending

 

Ver. 1.0 Build 28

http://www.tamos.com/products/throughput-test/

server: ThinkPad Yoga on Ethernet w/ Belkin GigE USB 3.0

  P50 Surface Book ThinkPad Yoga 12 X1C3 MBP13r2015e
TCP Up (Mbps)   112.24 82.83 106.29 58.43
TCP Down (Mbps)   120.03 87.14 123.89 78.52
UDP Up (Mbps)   149.07 - Loss 32.7% 72.68 - Loss 0.1% 117.71 - Loss 0.0% 64.45 - Loss 31.4%
UDP Down (Mbps)   149.21 - Loss 78.9% 93.70 - Loss 87.9% 141.09 - Loss: 81.5% 157.95 - Loss 83.7%
Rout-trip time RTT (ms)   2.9 5.2 2.1 3.6

 

Ethernet

 

103MBps to EMC CIFS server

 

Speedtest

http://www.speedtest.net/

 

SD

 

pending

251MBps to internal - Sandisk SDXC Extreme Pro 64GB UHS-II UHS speed class 3 U3 280MBps 1867x read, 250MBps 1667x-write

84MBps to internal - Sandisk SDXC Extreme Pro 64GB UHS-I 95MBps, 633x

Samsung Pro 64GB MicroSD XC read 90MB/s. write 80MB/s UHS-1 Class 10 MB-MG64DA/DM with SD adapter

<.MBps transfer, burst MBps write to internal

 

Bluetooth

pending

 

Bluetooth 4.?

Camera

 

pending

 

indoor fluorescent lights

DKC-Pro - Digital Kolor Card Pro - digitalimagflow.com (defuncted) http://www.dgkcolortools.com/dkc-pro-multifunction-color-tool.html

front

 

Audio

Realtek

how is notebookcheck testing third octave SPL, where to point microphone(s) towards? no details on setup.

Pyle PSPL05R - http://www.pyleaudio.com/sku/PSPL05R/Digital-Sound-Level-Meter-With-recording-Function

Auralex Studiofoam Wedge box http://www.auralex.com/absorption/studiofoam-wedge/

Audacity 2.0.2 Frequency Analysis spectrum plot -noise (normalized) recorded Sony PCM-D50 http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/cat-audio/resource.latest.bbsccms-assets-cat-audio-latest-pcmd50.shtml or Zoom H4n https://www.zoom-na.com/products/field-video-recording/field-recording/zoom-h4n-handy-recorder

pending

 

DPC Latency Checker

http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml

1.3.0

Audio output

TRRS 3.5mm combo output to TRS splitter (optional)

KM-IPHONE-2TRS http://www.kvconnection.com/product-p/km-iphone-2trs.htm

KM-IPHONE-2TRS-ECM - http://www.kvconnection.com/product-p/km-iphone-2trs-ecm.htm

pending

 

Battery

BATTERY
MANUFACTURER SMP
Design chemistry Li-Polymer
Design Voltage 11.25V
Design capacity 90.00 Wh
FULL CHARGE CAPACITY 96.17 Wh
Voltage 12.94 V
FRU 00NY493
Firmware version 0005-0126-0100-0009

 

pending

 

playing x videos in VLC - hours

AC Adapter

?

power usage

P3 Kill A Watt http://www.p3international.com/products/p4400.html - 0.57-0.62A - 41W

APC Back-UPS Pro 1500 https://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=BR1500G - - pending W

Security

 

pending

 

TPM 1.2

Sensors

pending

 

sensors?

Thermal

 

pending

 

FLIR i7 thermal camera - http://www.flir.com/thermography/americas/us/view/?id=54156

FLIR One for iOS

during IntelBurnTest

front

 

back

 

left

 

right

 

Device Manager

Apps

desktop

~59 programs, 2.24GB

Adobe AIR (needed by Lenovo Solution Center)

Adoe Reader XI 11.0.10 MUI (needed by Lenovo User Guide)

Create Recovery Media (Lenovo)

Dolby Audio X2 Windows API SDK

Dolby Audio X2 Windows APP

Integrated Camera

Intel Network Connections Drivers

Intel WiDi

Intel Wireless Bluetooth path version 18.1.1533.1852

Intel Graphics Driver

Intel Management Engine compoenets

Intel PROSet/Wireless Software

Intel USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller Driver

Intel USB 3.1 Device Driver

Lenovo Active Protection System (not needed for SSD)

Lenovo Auto Scroll Utility

Lenovo Communicatin Utility

Lenovo On Screen Display

Lenovo Power Management Driver

Lenovo Solution Center

Lenovo System Update

Lenovo Touch Fingerprint Software (softex)

Lenovo User Guide

Lenovo Warranty Information

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2

Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable (various versions)

Multifactor Authentication Client - Nok Nok Lab (try to add extension to Google Chrome)

NVIDIA 3D Vision Controller Driver 352.65

NVIDIA 3D Vision Driver 354.25

NVIDIA Graphics Driver 354.25

NVIDIA HD Audio Driver 1.3.34.4

NVIDIA nView 146.78

NVIDIA WMI 2.22.0

PANTONE Color Calibrator 1.2.0 (X-Rite)

Power Manager (Lenovo)

Realtek Card Reader

Realtek High Definition Audio Driver

Synaptics Pointing Device Driver

Synaptics WBF Fingerprint Reader Drivers

Thinkpad USB Ethernet Adapter Driver (already has built in Ethernet?)

Thunderbolt Software (Intel)

Windows Driver Package - Lenovo 1.67.10.20 (08/06/2015 1.67.10.20)

crapware/bloatware

McAfee LiveSafe (trial?)

Message Center Plus (Lenovo)

Microsoft Office (trial?)

Lenovo PowerENGAGE - by aviata

REACHit (Lenovo)

SHAREit (Lenovo)

unnecessary customizations

changed IE defaults to

http://lenovo13.msn.com/?pc=LCTE
http://mystart.lenovo.com/

Control Panel


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