Core Ultra performance release burst! Get started with ThinkBook 14+2024 AI PC

mention Business The first impression of many people is the dull and low-key pure black color matching, plus a regular appearance. But with the appearance of ThinkBook series, Business Notebook Its appearance has been redefined. The more fashionable, more textured and more fresh design style and color matching have replaced the stereotyped "black heavy industrial style". Therefore, ThinkBook has gradually become the first personal computer selected by many young users.

This year, Intel launched a cool Ultra processor platform with powerful AI computing power, which makes Notebook computer The productivity application efficiency has been greatly improved. For example, applications such as cultural maps and graphic maps, which originally required hours and days of mapping and revision, have become "mild" tasks in seconds with the help of AI, but they actually seem to take a lot of time compress The computing power behind the hardware platform is not "mild" at all.

As the representative of business AI PC, ThinkBook 14+ 2024 is recognized by users for its fashionable design and high cost performance. Its Intel Core Ultra 5 125H processor platform is the official source of high productivity and AI applications. that ThinkBook 14 +What kind of product is 2024? Through this evaluation, we will explore together.

·Stylish and elegant color contrast design

The fashion sense of ThinkBook 14+2024 appearance design comes from two aspects:

First, the rare color contrast design. Light gray and dark gray metal panels blend together, leaving a deep impression on users instantly;

Second, a very distinct sense of quality. This product highlights the advantages of metal materials in terms of panel edge polishing and paint spraying texture, thus creating an excellent texture. It is hard to imagine that it is a mainstream model with less than 6000 yuan.

Good screen axis damping control allows users to easily open the screen with one hand, and the protruding part of the camera module just becomes the point of force of the fingers.

From the side, ThinkBook 14+2024 is relatively thin, 15.9mm thin and 1.5kg light, and the maximum opening and closing angle of the screen is 180 °, which is convenient to carry.

·Complete interface configuration

business affairs notebook The interface expansion capability of is very important, but with the continuous reduction of notebook thickness, some interfaces have to be abandoned. ThinkBook 14+2024, on the other hand, provides users with a complete set of interface configurations. First, on the right side of the fuselage, it provides the safety keyhole, RJ45 network interface, USB 3.2 Gen1 Type-A interface, MicroSD card reader and hidden USB2.0 interface.

There are many RJ45 network ports Flimsy edition None, but ThinkBook 14+2024 is still standard. In addition, the design of the hidden USB2.0 interface is also very clever. After the wireless keyboard and mouse receiver is inserted, the cover is closed, so you don't have to worry about losing or forgetting to carry it.

The left side of the fuselage is equipped with a full function USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-C interface, USB 3.2 Gen1 Type-A interface, standard HDMI 2.1 TMDS video port, lightning 4 interface, 3.5mm headset jack, and even a dedicated TGX graphics card docking station interface. It can be connected to the TGX graphics card dock to improve graphics performance and provide stronger computing support for AI and professional creation.

·Large area pressure sensitive touch panel has excellent control experience

The reason why Think products are popular with business users is that they understand user needs very well. The previous interface extensibility and the keyboard control experience to be talked about next can reflect its professionalism.

ThinkBook 14+2024 is equipped with a 1.5mm medium key range keyboard. The surface of the key cap has a 0.3mm depression to fit the finger belly. The proper spacing between the key caps and good knocking feel ensure the input experience and efficiency of the entire keyboard.

The overall design of the C side is simple and capable. The power key in the upper right corner can be equipped with fingerprint recognition function. The left and right sides of the keyboard are high-quality speakers that support Dolby full scene sound. Although the direction key does not use a true full size key, it is not a half height design, but it is larger than the half height key cap, which feels good.

There is an Intel evo certification label on the left wrist rest, which indicates that the design standards of this product in design, portability, scalability, performance, connectivity, screen and many other aspects are much higher than those of ordinary laptops. After all, the Intel evo certification specification is very strict, and only if all of them pass the certification standards can they obtain the Intel evo certification qualification. Therefore, if you are hesitant to know what laptop to buy, it is right to recognize that Intel evo certification is on time.

Directly below the space bar is the 135 × 80mm large Forcepad touch panel, which uses pressure sensing and vibration feedback to replace the traditional micro motion, with faster trigger response and more accurate control. The whole area can be pressed, and the feedback force can be adjusted.

·Equipped with 14.5-inch 3K resolution, 120Hz high brush screen

ThinkBook 14+2024 is equipped with a 14.5-inch display screen with narrow borders on four sides, which accounts for up to 90% of the screen and has a remarkable sense of visual immersion. The evaluation model adopts a 3K resolution, 120Hz refresh rate panel, and a 2.5K resolution, 90Hz refresh rate panel. It supports Rhine hardware level low Blu ray certification, eyesafe eye protection certification, and DC dimming. The screen ratio is 16:10 for productivity office.

Now refer to the performance test of the spider color calibrator to see how this screen performs in terms of brightness, color gamut and color accuracy? It can be seen from the actual measurement that the overall quality of this screen is relatively good, the brightness reaches 443.07 nits, the sRGB color gamut volume is 149.9%, and the P3 color gamut volume is 106.2%. Without color calibration, the default average Δ E value of the screen color standard is 2.44, which is no problem for daily office work.

The ThinkBook 14+2024 camera is equipped with a physical baffle to ensure that user privacy is not stolen. At the same time, it provides powerful online video conference functions, including background replacement, character tracking, beauty, microphone noise reduction, and so on.

·Outstanding performance of Core Ultra 5 125H

ThinkBook 14+2024 has a variety of hardware configurations to choose from. The machine evaluated is equipped with Intel Core Ultra 5 125H processor, 32GB LPDDR5x memory, 1TB PCIe 4.0 solid state disk and Intel Sharp Core Display, and takes a cost-effective route in configuration. Next, what is the performance level of its core hardware?

The Intel Core Ultra 5 125H processor is composed of 4 power cores, 8 energy efficiency cores and 2 ultra-low power cores. It is 14 cores and 18 threads in total. The Remax acceleration is up to 4.5GHz, the three-level cache is 18MB, and the default TDP is 28W. However, the ThinkBook 14+2024 can achieve a power release of up to 70W in the geek mode. The overall tuning has chosen a more aggressive scheme.

Referring to the CPU-Z single core and multi-core tests, this processor scored 726.8 for a single core and 6663.2 for a multi-core. The processor's performance release was perfect, surpassing the average level of other products with the same configuration.

CINEBENCH R23 and 2024 test standards, R23 multi-core score 13680, single core score 1645; In 2024, the score of multi-core is 755, and that of single core is 95. The performance release of multi-core is also above the average level, and the score of single core is slightly lower. This is because the cooling pressure of the whole machine is relatively high when 70W power is released, and there is obvious frequency reduction. Therefore, the performance of single core is not up to scratch. This is a very normal phenomenon, After all, ThinkBook 14+2024 has chosen a more aggressive power dissipation scheme.

The Intel Core Ultra 5 125H processor is integrated with a low-power unit NPU for AI computing. The Intel OpenVINO acceleration of UL Procyon has scored 276 points in terms of computing performance. There is no problem in supporting AI functions such as camera background virtualization and eye tracking.

·Good storage performance

In terms of storage performance, this product uses dual channel memory with a total capacity of 32GB LPDDR5x, measured reading speed of 74147MB/s, write speed of 73975MB/s, and copy of 91011MB/s. However, the delay speed is relatively high, reaching 151.7ns. However, considering that ThinkBook 14+2024 is a business rather than a Gamebook , so the delay has little impact on the actual application.

This machine is equipped with 1TB PCIe 4.0 solid state disk. The measured Q8T1 sequential read speed is 4999.26MB/s, the write speed is 4269.52MB/s, the 4KQ1T1 random read speed is 62.58MB/s, and the write speed is 69.01MB/s. In addition, an additional M.2 interface is reserved for this machine to facilitate user capacity expansion.

·Remarkable core display performance experience

The sharp core display integrated with Intel Core Ultra platform can be said to push the iGPU performance to a new height. It is also the most powerful instant display at present. reference resources 3DMark In the test, the performance score of the Time SPY DX12 mode graphics card was 3422 points, and the Fire Strike score was 3422 points DX11 The performance score of the mode graphics card is 9255, which is much higher than the previous sharp torch Xe core graphics.

At the same time, Ruixuan Core Display is also excellent in AI computing power. Under the acceleration of Intel OpenVINO, GPU Float16 AI has 458 points in computing power, which is currently the most powerful iGPU in AI computing power.

Excellent graphics performance will naturally lead to better gaming experience. For example, when using ThinkBook 14+2024 to play CS2 and DOTA 2, the former can achieve fluency of more than 50fps under the highest 1080p picture quality, and the latter can achieve fluency of more than 60fps on average. Daily entertainment is enough.

Good AI computing support can also make AI applications like Stable Diffusion run faster. In the application of Wensheng map, we generated a 512 × 512 picture with 20 iterative steps, which took 1 minute and 55 seconds; In the map generation, we redraw the overall style of the picture, which only took 1 minute and 22 seconds. If there is no AI, ask everyone to make such a picture from 0 to 1, or fix such a picture. It can't be done within 2 minutes. Now, AI PC supported by Core Ultra platform can complete these tasks very quickly, which is the strength of AI PC.

·Efficient productivity application experience

However, for quite a few friends, ThinkBook 14+2024 is still a main office machine. Referring to the Crossmark productivity performance test, its comprehensive productivity score reached 1437, and its productivity, creativity and responsiveness scored 1377, 1688 and 1010 respectively, which can easily meet the daily office productivity application needs.

In terms of practical application, we also refer to UL Procyon's Picture editing and Video editing Test.

The advantage of the Core Ultra platform lies in its rich instruction set for acceleration, especially in video encoding and decoding, which has always been the strength of the Core Ultra platform. The actual ThinkBook 14+2024 picture editing performance score reached 6480 points, and the video editing performance was 3664 points. The actual application experience and efficiency were both good.

·Heat dissipation and endurance assessment

As can be seen from the previous performance section, the performance release of ThinkBook 14+2024 processor is excellent, especially the multi-core performance is excellent, but the single core performance is slightly low due to the interference of frequency reduction. From the heat dissipation test, it can be seen that in the Geek performance mode, the power consumption of this product can be stabilized around 65W, and the average core temperature is 96 ℃. The AIDA 64 monitoring can see a relatively obvious frequency reduction, after all, its packaging temperature has exceeded 100 ℃.

In terms of endurance, the Intel Core Ultra platform has made great progress in the energy consumption ratio. With 50% screen brightness, 30% volume, 60Hz refresh rate, Wi Fi/Bluetooth fully open, the measured endurance of PCMark 10 office mode is 13 hours and 20 minutes, and the performance is excellent.

·Evaluation summary

ThinkBook 14+is a very popular product series in the business notebook market in recent years. It has fashionable appearance design, excellent workmanship quality, excellent performance release, and excellent interface expansion capability. These features have hit the core needs of current business office users.

The new ThinkBook 14+2024 has taken a ride on AI PC by relying on the Core Ultra platform. From the test, it can also be seen that AI is unique in improving productivity and efficiency. The past productivity tasks based on hours and days have become tasks based on minutes and seconds after AI intervention. This change is amazing. At the same time, the outstanding AI computing power of the Core Ultra platform can also help users easily build localized AI applications of various types, such as Chatbot, Stable Diffusion, etc. Compared with online applications, privacy and security are more guaranteed

During the 618 promotion period, the price of ThinkBook 14+2024 dropped to 5999 yuan, which is very cost-effective. Those who are considering buying thin and light books in the near future can consider it.

This article is an original article. If it is reproduced, please indicate the source: Core Ultra performance release burst! Get started with ThinkBook 14+2024 AI PC https://nb.zol.com.cn/873/8735884.html