Lenovo Legion Pro 5(i) 16 and Legion Pro 7(i) 16 – laptops with Intel Raptor Lake-HX, AMD Ryzen 7045HX and NVIDIA RTX 4000

Two days ago, Intel presented the 13th generation processors for laptops in the form of i.a. Raptor Lake-H and Raptor Lake-HX, while NVIDIA has introduced a new generation of GeForce RTX 4000 graphics chips to its offer. Most manufacturers have already announced their new products, and now it’s finally time to discuss Lenovo Legion devices. The manufacturer withheld the announcement until the presentation of the new generation of AMD Ryzen 7045 Dragon Range series processors. As AMD also showed its new products, now it’s time for Lenovo, which plans four Legion laptops for this year, two with Intel Raptor Lake-HX and AMD Ryzen 7045HX processors.

Lenovo presents this year’s Legion Pro 5(i) 16 and Legion Pro 7(i) 16 laptop models, which will use Intel Raptor Lake-HX, AMD Ryzen 7045HX processors and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4000 graphics.

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This year’s Lenovo Legion laptops offer i.a. a physical MUX switch and support for NVIDIA G-SYNC refresh technique combined with the advanced Optimus, allowing you to quickly switch between iGPU and dGPU without rebooting the laptop. Flagships in the form of Lenovo Legion Pro 7(i) 16 offer top Intel Raptor Lake-HX processors, including the 24-core Intel Core i9-13900HX and the competitive AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX system with 16 Zen 4 cores in two chiplets. The Intel version offers three graphics systems: GeForce RTX 4070 140 W, GeForce RTX 4080 175 W and GeForce RTX 4090 175 W, while the AMD variant is based on the GeForce RTX 4080 175 W and GeForce RTX 4090 175 W. For lack of gaming performance and software we certainly will not complain. Lenovo Legion Pro 7(i) 16 can count on a cooling system based on a steam chamber imposed on processors and graphics systems. The exception is the version with Intel and the RTX 4070 Laptop GPU, where the steam chamber is applied only to the processor, while the GPU is cooled with heat pipes. So we are talking about a hybrid cooling system. Liquid metal is additionally applied to the processors to help control temperatures under load. The full “thermal design” of the laptop is able to dissipate 235 W of energy from both components, which means that 60 W remains for the processor at the maximum GPU load (175 W). Very interesting information is that the Lenovo Legion Pro 7(i) 16 laptop by default, it will be offered with overclocked DDR5 RAM working at an effective clock speed of 6000 MHz – this applies to both configurations with Intel Raptor Lake-HX and AMD Dragon Range-HX. No other manufacturer like MSI, ASUS or Acer has decided to take a similar step.

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Lower in the hierarchy, we already have Lenovo Legion Pro 5(i) 16 laptops, which are also offered with Intel Raptor Lake-HX and AMD Ryzen 7045HX processors, although in the case of the AMD version, the maximum CPU configuration will be 12-core and 24-thread Ryzen 9 7845HX. The following graphics systems were also available: GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB (95 W), GeForce RTX 4050 (140 W), GeForce RTX 4060 (140 W) and GeForce RTX 4070 (140 W). Here, up to 32 GB DDR5 5600 MHz RAM as well as two M.2 SSD PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe slots are available. Configurations with HD and Full HD cameras will be available for sale, in both cases with a physical iris as well as Windows Hello support. The built-in batteries have been equipped with a fast charging option – 80% of the capacity can be charged in just 30 minutes, and up to 100% in 60 minutes. When it comes to the cooling system, the full thermal design for Legion Pro 5(i) 16 is 200 W, so with full GPU pressure (140 W), there is also at least 60 W for processors. This year’s Lenovo Legion devices will be sold in a package with 3 months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription.

Lenovo Legion Pro 5i 16 (Intel, 2023)

Lenovo Legion Pro 7i 16 (Intel, 2023)

Lenovo Legion Pro 5 16 (AMD, 2023)

Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16 (AMD, 2023)

Source: PurePC