JPR’s Mt. Tiburon Test Lab (MTTL) put Lenovo’s new 16-inch lightweight IdeaPad notebook to the test. The IdeaPad features Intel’s 3 nm Arrow Lake-S Ultra 9 285H mobile processor. The processor has an integrated Intel Arc 140T GPU, providing increased AI processing performance, ray tracing, and gaming. We tested the IdeaPad at our MTTL using synthetic benchmarks and games with built-in benchmarking capabilities.
The Intel Core Ultra 9 285H in the Lenovo IdeaPad provides iGPU-compute capabilities through the new Xe with XMX graphics architecture for AI and gaming workloads. CPU and GPU play a dual role in high-performance computing workloads.
At our Mt. Tiburon Testing Lab (MTTL), we tested the IdeaPad using synthetic benchmarks and games with built-in benchmarking capabilities. The results were admiral to surprising, making the notebook a very capable and useful system overall.
We used the Procyon AI Computer Vision Benchmark, which gives insights into how the Intel AI inference engines perform in a Windows environment. The benchmark tests CPU and GPU performance; not surprisingly, the GPU performed better. UL’s benchmark suite offers a lot of very useful tests that can give tremendous insight into how a system will perform, and we ran five of them. The Lenovo IdeaPad has a native resolution of 2880 × 1800, and most of the benchmarks allowed that selection. We used three resolutions: 1800, 1440, and 1080.
MTTL provides its results using 3DMark’s Time Spy, 3DMark Steel Nomad, 3DMark Port Royal, and 3DMark Speed Way.
UL’s 3DMark Intel XeSS Feature test (Xe Super Sampling) tests Intel’s graphics technology. There are also results for the Blender benchmark, Geekbench 6, Cinebench 2024, BapCo’s CrossMark benchmark. We also ran the device through a battery of high-end games and our own Mark benchmark.
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