Lenovo Legion 5
Always ready for action. The Legion 5 gaming laptop melds AMD Ryzen 7 5000 series processors and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 30 series graphics to carry you to victory. Play and stream with smooth, gorgeous visuals showcased on a 17.3" Full HD display with competition-level refresh rate. Play at your best without throttling or interruptions thanks to the advanced cooling solution Coldfront 3.0 and long battery life.
Ultimate performance. Uncompromised battery life.
They say life is full of compromises. They say you can’t have high performance and long battery life on the same laptop. They say that a high-performance gaming laptop has to be big, bulky and heavy. They’re wrong. Now you can enjoy elite gaming performance on a thin and light laptop with amazing battery life, thanks to new AMD Ryzen 5000 H-Series Mobile Processors. Never compromise on your gaming laptop again.
Ultimate performance for gamers and creators
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series Laptop GPUs deliver the ultimate performance for gamers and creators. They’re powered by Ampere—NVIDIA’s 2nd Gen RTX architecture—with new Ray Tracing Cores, Tensor Cores, and streaming multiprocessors for a huge leap in performance. Experience the most realistic ray-traced graphics, cutting-edge new features, and the power of AI in thin and light designs.
Xbox Game Pass. Discover your next favorite game.
Play over 100 high-quality PC games for one low monthly price. EA Play is included and gives you more from the games you love with access to top Electronic Arts titles on PC, more rewards, and more exclusive content! Use the Xbox app on PC to download and play new games the same day they release like Halo Infinite. With games added all the time, you'll always have something new to play.
Cooler. Smarter. Coldfront 3.0.
Extending its legacy of max clock speeds with zero throttling over long sessions, Legion Coldfront 3.0 ups the stakes even further with an intelligent intake system, turbo-charged dual fan design, quad-channel exhaust system with improved thermal fins, and intake vents underneath each keyboard switch and heat sinks. A new intelligent mode uses artificial intelligence to optimize the most demanding titles without breaking a sweat, while Q Control 4.0 lets you control fan speed and voltage to shift between full-throttle flow or extended battery life.
Introducing the Lenovo Legion AI engine
The Lenovo Legion AI Engine is our most groundbreaking gaming solution yet. Its Auto-Optimization mode intelligently identifies when you launch a game and optimizes system performance with dynamic CPU/GPU power distribution. The result is the highest possible FPS whether your game is CPU or GPU intensive. In Auto-Detect mode, you’ll enjoy maximum frame rates on 16 of the most popular PC game titles.
Immersive visuals. Fast refresh.
Get desktop-sized field-of-view on the Legion 5’s 17.3" 16:9 widescreen FHD display featuring Dolby Vision support and up to 72% NTSC color accuracy for amazing detail in your favorite games. And with up to a 144Hz refresh rate you can seize the upper hand and dominate even the most competitive lobbies.
Strike hard. Strike true.
Tactile. Responsive. Accurate. The Legion 5 features the Legion TrueStrike keyboard. Forged from years of gaming experience, TrueStrike features soft-landing switches with 1.5mm key travel that leverage a second transition design, meaning you get deeper strokes with equal force on every strike for an improved input experience, offline or on. TrueStrike further delivers a superior layout with dedicated media keys, number pad, larger arrow keys and one-piece trackpad illuminated with a crisp white backlight.
Immersive 3D audio
Better hearing makes for better gaming, and Nahimic drastically improves your experience by providing unprecedented immersive 3D audio designed for gamers specifically. Experience crystal-clear communication with your teammates as never before. Nahimic doesn’t just let you play your game—it lets you live it.
Ports/Slots
1. SD card reader
2. USB-A 3.2 Gen 1
3. RJ45
4. USB-C 3.2 Gen 2
5. 2 x USB-A 3.2 Gen 1
6. HDMI
7. USB-A 3.2 Gen 1
8. Power input
9. USB-C 3.2 Gen 2
10. Headphone / mic combo
Pros: - Fast CPU - Fast GPU - Decent amount of RAM and it's in dual channel - Empty spot for another NVME SSD - High refresh rate screen with support for both freesync and gsync - Display port output to drive external variable refresh monitors - Num pad
Cons: - Heavy (unless you're particularly small or weak it really shouldn't matter) - Default settings make for short battery life and too much fan noise
Overall Review: Buyers should understand that while on battery the dGPU is limited to 20 and 30 watts for quiet and balanced modes respectively and performance mode is not available. Pressing Fn-Q cycles between three power profiles (power button LED turns blue, white, or red to show the active profile). If you care about battery life you'll need to switch "hybrid mode" on using either the BIOS or Lenovo Vantage software and then install drivers for the AMD integrated graphics. Then apps can be set to use either the integrated or discreet GPU via the list of apps in settings > system > display > graphics. If you care about fan noise while gaming (they can get pretty loud) be sure to set a frame rate limit either in game or in the display driver control panel for whichever GPU is running the game. Using power or clock speed limits to control fan noise will cause noticeable lag and stuttering in most games. Also be sure to change a few settings in the control panel that can be found by searching for "edit power plan" and then the link "change advanced power settings". To prevent the fans from constantly spinning up during normal desktop usage edit the "Legion Quiet Mode" profile's "processor power management" max processor state to 99% or less to prevent boosting or unlock the hidden "processor performance boost mode" control and set it to disabled. Nice machine overall.