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The Legion TrueStrike keyboard enables you to strike with extreme precision and satisfying keystrokes—now featuring 33% less percussion noise so you can work in silence. Featuring soft-landing switches that deliver deeper strokes with equal force on every strike, this keyboard provides the comfort you need to play at your best level. Never miss a shot via Legion Spectrum RGB, and a full-sized number pad and even larger arrow keys. 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. Despite its heft and four large vents—plus a sizable vent area on its bottom—the Legion 5 Pro requires active and loud fans to stay cool when engaged in heavy graphics lifting. The laptop is fairly quiet during routine Windows work, but the fans crank up when running 3D games and media editing apps. It's no louder than competing gaming laptops, but I'd hoped that it wouldn't need to spin its fans at max RPM as frequently as it did, considering that Lenovo didn't try to squeeze the system into a svelte, Razer-like chassis. (Photo: Molly Flores)
On to more demanding loads, we start by testing the CPU’s performance by running the Cinebench R15 test for 15+ times in a loop, with a 1-2 seconds delay between each run.
As far as everyday use goes, the laptop runs snappily and stays cool and quiet, so no complaints here. Witness victory on a 15.6" screen with up to WQHD resolution that lets you employ super-human reflexes from 165Hz refresh rate and only 3ms response time thanks to OverDrive technology. Push what's possible with AMD FreeSync™ and NVIDIA® G-SYNC® support and aim to game with purpose on this incredible screen. 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.
For the RAM and storage options, the laptop still comes with two accessible memory DIMMs and two M.2 SSD slots. Our unit is a 32 GB of DDR5-4800 RAM configuration, with a fast PCIe 4.0 Samsung PM9A1 SSD. With that out of the way, some of you might not appreciate the loudly spinning fans on the Performance mode, which ramp up to ~50 dB at head level. Thus, if you prefer sacrificing the performance to some extent for quieter fan noise, here’s how this Legion 5i Pro does on the Balance profile with the Legion AI option disabled in Vantage, which limits the fans at sub 44 dB at head level. Cinebench is often a good predictor of our Handbrake video-editing trial, another tough, threaded workout that's highly CPU-dependent and scales well with cores and threads. In it, we put a stopwatch on test systems as they transcode a standard 12-minute clip of 4K video (the open-source Blender demo movie Tears of Steel Tears of Steel ) to a 1080p MP4 file. It's a timed test, and lower results are better. Limits:Limit 5 per customer. Offers valid from Lenovo in the US only. Lenovo may increase or decrease these limits, from time to time, for certain offerings.Finally, I’ll mention the camera placed at the top of the screen, and flanked by microphones. The ensemble does what it’s supposed to, but the camera is still HD-only and washed-out quality. I do appreciate the electronic shutter offered on the right side of the laptop, which let you electronically kill both the camera and the microphones when you don’t want to use them. Battery life Next is Maxon's CPU-crunching Cinebench R15 test, which is fully threaded to make use of all available processor cores and threads. Cinebench stresses the CPU rather than the GPU to render a complex image. The result is a proprietary score indicating a PC's suitability for processor-intensive workloads.
Below the keyboard is a large touchpad. It's centered below the keyboard, making it look offset to the left when you consider the number pad. I found its positioning felt natural, and its matte finish allowed for smooth gliding and accurate recording of gestures. You can press the F10 key to disable the touchpad when using an external mouse.
Testing the Legion 5 Pro: Blazin' Ryzen
That aside, with daily multitasking on Balance mode, the fans stay active, but spin at very quiet levels and are barely audible even in a silent room. On top of that, they idle with video streaming and low-intensity tasks on the Quiet profile. So no complaints there. I also haven’t noticed any coil whining or electronic noises on any of the Legion 5 laptops tested lately. W (~5-6 h of use) – 165Hz, 1080p fullscreen video on Youtube in Edge, Quiet Mode, screen at 60%, Wi-Fi ON; The Lenovo Legion 5 Intel Core i7 Gaming Laptop (82RB000XUK) has all the room to help you in your quest to get to the top of the leaderboard. With 32GB of RAM and a huge 1TB Solid State Drive, you'll be safe in the knowledge that it has all the storage you need to run at full capacity.
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