The Lenovo Legion 5 15APH9 is a gaming laptop with a footprint of 358 mm wide by 261 mm tall and a slim 20 mm thickness, giving it a volume of 1868.76 cm³. It weighs 2320 g and uses an active cooling design rather than a fanless setup. The chassis includes a backlit keyboard for use in low-light conditions, though it is not weather-sealed or splashproof. A one-year warranty is provided with the device.
The laptop features a 15.6″ IPS LCD panel with LED backlighting, rendering at a 1920 x 1080 px resolution and a pixel density of 141 ppi. Its 144Hz refresh rate makes it well-suited for fast-paced content, while typical brightness sits at 300 nits. An anti-reflection coating is applied to the screen surface, though the display does not support touch input. The system can drive up to 4 displays simultaneously.
The system is powered by an 8-core CPU running at a base clock of 3.8 GHz per core with a turbo frequency of 5.1 GHz, supporting 16 threads and multithreading, and built on a 5 nm semiconductor process. It carries 16GB of DDR5 RAM at 5600 MHz across 2 memory slots, with a maximum supported memory capacity of 256GB. Storage is handled by a 512GB NVMe SSD using PCIe 4.0 and flash-based technology. On the graphics side, the GPU runs at a base clock of 1545 MHz with a boost of 2370 MHz, backed by 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM, delivering 14.56 TFLOPS of floating-point performance, a texture rate of 227.52 GTexels/s, and a pixel rate of 113.76 GPixel/s. The GPU supports DirectX 12 Ultimate and is fully 64-bit compatible, though it does not include XeSS (XMX) support.
In CPU benchmarking, the laptop scores 2357 in Geekbench 6 single-core and 10994 in Geekbench 6 multi-core, reflecting the processor's multi-threaded throughput. The overall PassMark result stands at 28616, with a single-threaded PassMark score of 3750. GPU performance is captured by a PassMark G3D score of 17710, indicating the graphics subsystem's rendering capability.
The laptop offers a varied port selection, including two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C ports and three USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports, while Thunderbolt 3 and 4, USB 4, DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, and VGA outputs are absent. Video output is handled by a single HDMI 2.1 port, and a wired network connection is available via one RJ45 port. Wireless connectivity covers Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) alongside Wi-Fi 5 and Wi-Fi 4, paired with Bluetooth 5.2. AirPlay is supported, but there is no external memory card slot on the device.
The laptop is equipped with a 60 Wh battery and includes sleep-and-charge USB ports, allowing connected devices to be charged even when the laptop is powered off or in sleep mode. It does not use a MagSafe power adapter.
The laptop includes stereo speakers and a 3.5 mm headset jack for audio output, though it does not feature Dolby Atmos or an S/PDIF port. A front camera is present, while biometric options such as a fingerprint scanner and 3D facial recognition are not available, nor are voice commands. On the graphics side, the GPU supports both ray tracing and DLSS, adding to its gaming-oriented feature set. Motion and location sensors — including a gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, and GPS — are absent, and no stylus is included in the box. There is also no optical disc drive.
The CPU carries a clock multiplier of 38, a TDP of 115W, and a maximum operating temperature of 100 °C, with the multiplier being locked. It supports a range of instruction sets including MMX, SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, AVX, AVX2, AES, F16C, and FMA3, along with the NX bit for hardware-level security, while big.LITTLE technology is not used. The processor also features integrated graphics with 12 execution units, and the cache hierarchy consists of 512 KB of L1, 8 MB of L2 at 1 MB per core, and 16 MB of L3 cache at 2 MB per core. On the GPU side, the Ada Lovelace architecture underpins the discrete graphics, featuring 3072 shading units, 96 texture mapping units, and 48 ROPs, with a memory speed of 2000 MHz, an effective memory speed of 16000 MHz, a 128-bit memory bus, and a maximum bandwidth of 256 GB/s across 2 memory channels. The GPU supports stereoscopic 3D, multi-display output, Double Precision Floating Point, OpenCL 3, OpenGL 4.6, and ECC memory, and does not include LHR. The system RAM supports a maximum speed of 7500 MHz, and the PassMark DirectCompute score is 6787. The chip contains 18900 million transistors.
