Legion has been the family brand of the manufacturer for a few years lenovo for its pure gaming equipment, a segment in continuous growth and without a ceiling for now. In addition to a lot of variety for the consumer.
His latest novelty, the Lenovo Legion 5i Pro 16 Seventh generation, it is presented in society as an update of the previous generation both at the design level, with necessary touches to improve, and inside, where the new Intel processors and the most powerful Nvidia graphics make an appearance. We have already tried it for Xataka.
Lenovo Legion 5i Pro 16 Data Sheet
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Screen |
16-inch IPS-LCD |
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resolution |
WQXGA (2560×1600 pixels) at 165Hz |
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microprocessor |
Intel Core i7-12700H |
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GPU |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 6GB GDDR6 |
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principal memory |
16GB DDR5 |
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storage |
1TB M.2 NVMe SSD |
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connectivity |
Left side:
Right side:
Back:
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wireless connectivity |
Wi-Fi 6e (802.11ax) and Bluetooth 5.1 |
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sound and webcam |
2 Nahimic speakers (2x2W) 720p webcam with privacy protection |
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battery |
80Wh (300W adapter) |
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operating system |
Windows 11 |
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weight and thickness |
2.5kg and 19.9-26.6mm |
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price |
€1,679 |
A mixture of two worlds
The Lenovo Legion 5i Pro It is presented in society as a powerful laptop that could almost pass for a non-gaming model. It belongs to that type of portable equipment that moves away from the stridency and flashy elements to go practical.
This laptop has a aluminum and magnesium chassis that provides an excellent balance between resistance, solidity and correct weight, since the 16-inch model analyzed remains in the 2.5kg.
About this Lenovo Legion 5i Pro we want to leave two more notes in this section. First of all, it is very surprising absence of a fingerprint reader (the power button centered on the keyboard and under the brand logo seemed ideal to implement one).
How good a fingerprint reader would have been on that round home button
On the other hand, the webcam He gives us one of lime and one of sand. Although we appreciate that it has a shutter to block its use (yes, electronic and not mechanical), the 720p resolution and its general quality we believe are not up to the specifications of the rest of the equipment. Also, it doesn’t support Windows Hello, so we’re left with no biometric identification option for this device.
Screen 16:10 at 165Hz
The format 16:10 and the 16-inch diagonal are the solid base of the Lenovo Legion 5i Pro at the screen level. It does so with an IPS WQHD+ panel (2560 x 1600 pixels) where the 500 nits high brightness (very regular throughout its surface) that allows it to be VESA DisplayHDR 400 certified.
screen, with matte finish that quite efficiently avoid uncomfortable reflections, covers the 100% sRGB color spectrum and it comes very well calibrated from the factory, also having the possibility of configuring some of its parameters.
Although we can configure the equipment with up to a Core i9-12900H, the version that we have tested has a Intel Core i7-12700H combined with 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR5 4800MHz SoDIMM RAM and a 2TB M.2 SSD. Both modules, both for RAM and internal memory, are accessible by the user if the bottom cover is opened and they can be changed.
This technical sheet is balanced with respect to the price of the equipment, which is currently 1,600 euros. And it offers one of the best performances we can get in this range of equipment and processors.
In the tests with PCMark, this Lenovo Legion 5i Pro reaches 9125, 5460 and 5922 in the Creative, Home and Work tests respectively. In Cinebench R23 it exceeds the 17,000 points in the Multi Core test and the 1500 in Single Core. In the test with Cinebench R20, this Lenovo Legion 5i Pro is in a good position compared to the latest gaming laptops that we have analyzed in Xataka.
Another surprise at the performance level was obtained in the tests that we passed on the SSD unit, which brings out the full potential of PCIe 4.0, having obtained the best result by length (even doubling) of all the SSD units analyzed in gaming laptops so far. surpassing the 13.5GB/s and 10GB/s in the reading and writing tests, respectively.
For tests of gross yieldAs always, we opted for the purest profile for the final use of this equipment. Thus, logically it is somewhat far from the most powerful Nvidia models but it maintains the type if our idea is to play at 1080p and be able to comfortably enjoy rates greater than 60 fps in most games.
That graphical performance is directly reflected in the results with real titles like DIRT V, where we got an average of 79.8 fps at 1080p (65.6 fps in 2K) or in other games like Far Cry 5 (89 fps at 1080p and 62fps at 2K) or Battlefield V (143fps at 1080p and 116 at 2K).
If we compare visually as we usually do with the Shadow of The Tomb Raider game with maximum quality and 1080p resolution, this Lenovo Legion 5i Pro looks as follows:
Maximum performancesrc=maximum loudness
The Legion 5i Pro we said that, at the design level, it already reveals that cooling has had to be taken very seriously. The exterior is already detailed in the first section of the team’s design. But the importance of cooling remains inside the equipment, where we have five heat pipes plus the revamped cooling system with thinner blades and the CPU’s dedicated copper heat transfer block.
Despite this, the Lenovo Legion 5i Pro It does not manage to remain as a computer that we can use placed on the knees due to the excessive heating suffered by its lower part, as well as to a lesser extent in the keyboard area.
And it will not be because the cooling system does not make an effort to reduce the heat generated, with the consequent noise generated, which is annoying in the two modes of use that are not silent. The laptop, even when we are not playing, tends to resort to fans very often.
We can control these energy management options with the software Lenovo Vantageone of the most complete and clear proprietary team management programs that we have tested on laptops.
One of the most complete and clear PC managers on the market
The sections are well differentiated and offer us a good balance between relevant information on the operation of the equipment and the configuration of aspects such as the screen, keyboard, sound or hardware driver updates.
It is not a laptop to play on the move
Since Lenovo has not put limits on either the CPU or the GPU when it comes to consuming energy so as not to cut their performance, this has a direct counterpart at the level of autonomy.
Despite the good capacity of its battery, which is 80Wh, the Lenovo Legion 5i Pro is not capable of offering us a real autonomy of more than 4 hours. The average with a mixed use, brightness to a third of its possibilities and connectivity all the time, was in 3.5 hoursinsufficient for a team that intends to go beyond being a team to play but that does allow us, for example, browsing sessions or multimedia playback at home without worrying about the battery charge.
The large and heavy charger (1 kg) is not made to be carried from one place to another
The most positive in any case we take it from the charging side, which is fast and that we can do using the USB-C Thunderbolt 4 port with 135 W adapters in addition to resorting to charging
