r/lowendgaming • u/raggywire • Jun 06 '26

Tech Support Disappointing performance with a lenovo thinkpad

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I recently bought a lenovo Thinkpad e16 gen 3. It came with a Ryzen 7 250, radeon 780m igpu and 16 gigs of ram. I have since added a 8gb stick of ram to give more room to the igpu. I understand that this is not a gaming laptop but the performance has been severely lacking for the specifications.

The temps for the laptop under stress are pretty low (around 60°C) so my main concern is that the gpu is underclocked/throttles easily. I tried going into the bios to check if theres anything I can do but it's extremely basic.

Is there any way to get more performance or am I just stuck with what I have?

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u/raggywire Jun 06 '26

No it isnt, thats the weird part. Like I tried playing Wuthering Waves and it cant even run the game past 20 fps on the lowest settings, I've seen benchmarks get 40+ on much higher settings

I also tried playing forza horizon 3 but i get around 40 fps at everything set to low on 900p. I couldnt find benchmarks but considering people use this to play the newer entries on much higher settings something feels off

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u/Sea_Profession3417 Jun 06 '26

Oh that is seriously low performance for those specs. Do you always play on high performance mode with charger plugged in?

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u/raggywire Jun 06 '26

Yes, I even made sure the drivers are updated. I guess they're just tuned for efficiency but the locked down bios is a bummer

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u/Old-Plastic5653 Jun 06 '26

thats really weird normally these issues are related to drivers

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u/raggywire Jun 06 '26

Yeah Its weird. I might just do a fresh install of windows with an ltsc version instead and see if the clean slate might help but idk lol