The Lenovo Legion 5 is an impressive gaming laptop on paper, with high-end components throughout, but it’s going to have to work hard when lined up against some strong rivals. The Ryzen 7 5800H is a familiarly great CPU from AMD. It’s got eight multi-threaded cores alongside base and boost speeds of 3.2GHz and 4.4GHz. The rest of the specification is entirely normal: the Lenovo has 16GB of dual-channel memory and a 512GB SSD alongside dual-band Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5 and Gigabit Ethernet. W (~6 h of use) – 60Hz, 1080p fullscreen video on Youtube in Edge, Quiet Mode, screen at 60%, Wi-Fi ON;

I’ve already reviewed the mid-tier i7 + RTX 3060 configuration of the Legion 5i Pro laptop in a previous article, so I’m not going over all the details again in here. If you’re interested in my thoughts on the design and ergonomics, typing experience, and screen options, you’ll find those covered in that article. You can find this laptop in stores in multiple variants, going from i5 + RTX 3050Ti up to i7 + 3070Ti configurations, with various amounts of RAM and SSD storage.The final piece of the puzzle is the SSD, which returned decent read and write speeds of 3594MB/s and 1681MB/s, which means it can save and load data on the physical drive at a healthy pace. FHD+ (1920 x 1200) IPS, 500 nits, 165Hz refresh rate with OverDrive, 100% sRGB, up to VESA DisplayHDR™ 400 Certified, Dolby Vision® support, NVIDIA® G-SYNC™ support, 16:10 aspect ratio As usual, Lenovo delivers a great keyboard: the buttons deliver a great balance between the snappiness required for gaming and the softness needed for longer typing sessions. The buttons are fast and consistent, too. The layout is solid: there’s a numberpad, and the full-size cursor keys are separated from the rest of the unit.

Keep an eye on the big retailers, though: prices drop all the time, and the Lenovo could easily become a bargain in the US and Europe alongside the UK. And, if that’s the case, it’ll have even more of a claim to a spot in our best gaming laptop chart. These are fair runtimes for an Intel 12th-gen laptop and better with video streaming and light use than the average Alder Lake Core H laptop we’ve tested this year. However, the 5i Pro is still no match in efficiency for the AMD-powered alternatives. To put these findings in perspective, here’s how this Core i7-12700H implementation fares against other higher-tier laptops in this test, both Intel and AMD, as well as the previous-generation Legion 5 Pro 2021 with AMD hardware. Take your gaming up a gear with the Lenovo Legion 5 Intel Core i7 Gaming Laptop (82RB000XUK). Powered by an Intel Core i7-12700H 14 Core Processor, you'll have all the ammunition you need to enjoy high octane action within all your favourite games. The performance is hardly impacted in short-durations loads, but with longer-time loads, the 60W CPU and 120W GPU sustained power limits play a role. Nonetheless, at ~120W, the RTC 3070Ti performs at 85-90% of its capacity on Performance mode, at 150W, which is not bad at all.The Legion 5 Pro won or tied for first place in all three multimedia tests, thanks in large part to its AMD CPU. The Ryzen 7 and 9 5000 series chips have proven to be a bit faster than equivalent Intel Core i7 and Core i9 processors for media creation and editing. The Core i9-based Alienware m17 R4 tied the Lenovo in both Handbrake and Photoshop, but the Legion 5 Pro had a clear advantage in Cinebench, in fact posting the second-highest score we've seen in a gaming laptop. If you can't afford both a gaming rig and a workstation, the Legion 5 Pro is an able machine for content creation as well as playing games. Graphics Tests