Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 9 review: Panther Lake and a 50W RTX PRO 2000

The Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 9 is a thin 16-inch mobile workstation with a Core Ultra 9 386H, 64GB of LPDDR5X-8533 and an RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell. Panther Lake lifts Cinebench 2026 multi-core 18% over the Core Ultra 9 285H, but 8GB of GDDR7 caps local AI at 8B-class models. The OLED build lists at $7,719 and sold for $5,399 on October 22.

• Cinebench 2026 multi-core: 5,083 vs 4,292 on the Core Ultra 9 285H
• STREAM Triad: 81,712MB/s vs 62,255, memory latency down to 116.1ns
• Llama 3.1 8B at 64.8 tokens/s, Phi-4-mini at 111.9 on the RTX PRO 2000
• Price: $7,719 list, $5,399 in the October 22 sale