Lenovo Legion 5 15IRX9 15.6" Intel Core i7-13650HX 2.6GHz / Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop / 24GB RAM / 1TB SSD

The Lenovo Legion 5 15IRX9 is a gaming laptop with a physical footprint of 358 mm wide by 261 mm tall and a thickness of just 20 mm, giving it a relatively slim profile for its category. It has a total volume of 1,868.76 cm³ and weighs 2,320 g, which is a reasonable figure for a machine of this type. The chassis includes a backlit keyboard and is actively cooled, as it does not use a fanless design. It is not weather-sealed, so it offers no splash resistance. The laptop comes with a one-year warranty and is classified as a gaming type.

The laptop features a 15.6″ IPS LCD panel with LED backlighting, rendering content at a resolution of 1920 x 1080 px and a pixel density of 141 ppi. The screen runs at a 144Hz refresh rate, which benefits fast-paced content, and reaches a typical brightness of 300 nits. An anti-reflection coating is applied to the surface, while touch input is not supported. The display configuration allows up to 4 simultaneous connected displays, and the panel does not have a touch screen.

The processor runs across 20 threads in a hybrid configuration, with six cores clocked at 2.6 GHz and eight cores at 1.9 GHz, reaching a turbo frequency of 4.9 GHz, and is built on a 5 nm semiconductor process with 64-bit and multithreading support. System memory consists of 24GB of DDR5 RAM at 4,800 MHz across two slots, which also represents the maximum supported capacity. Storage is handled by a 1,024GB NVMe SSD using flash-based technology over a PCIe 4.0 interface. On the graphics side, the GPU operates at a base clock of 1,545 MHz and boosts to 2,370 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 but does not include XeSS acceleration.

In CPU benchmarks, the system scores 2,524 in Geekbench 6 single-core and 14,077 in Geekbench 6 multi-core, reflecting the processor's threaded throughput capacity. The overall PassMark result stands at 30,674, with a single-thread PassMark score of 3,767. Graphics performance is measured at a PassMark G3D result of 17,710, capturing the GPU's rendering capability under that testing workload.

The laptop's port selection includes 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, and additional Gen 2 Type-A ports are absent. Video output is handled by a single HDMI 2.1 port, with no DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, or VGA connector present. Wired networking is covered by one RJ45 port, and there is no external memory card slot. Wireless connectivity includes Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) with backward compatibility for Wi-Fi 5 and Wi-Fi 4, alongside Bluetooth 5.2. AirPlay is supported, and USB Type-C connectivity is available through the Gen 2 ports listed above.

The laptop is equipped with a 60 Wh battery and supports sleep-and-charge functionality, allowing connected USB devices to be charged even when the system is powered off or in sleep mode. It does not include a MagSafe power adapter.

The laptop includes stereo speakers, a 3.5 mm headset jack, and two built-in microphones, though Dolby Atmos and S/PDIF output are not present. A front camera is included, while fingerprint scanning, 3D facial recognition, and voice commands are not supported. On the graphics side, the system supports both ray tracing and DLSS, which are relevant to rendering workloads and gaming. Motion and location sensors — including a gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, and GPS — are absent, and there is no optical disc drive or stylus included.

The CPU is a laptop-class processor with a clock multiplier of 26, an unlocked multiplier, a 115W TDP, a maximum operating temperature of 100 °C, a 24MB L3 cache, and a 4,800 MHz maximum RAM speed across two memory channels. It uses big.LITTLE technology, supports the NX bit, Double Precision Floating Point, and 64-bit instruction sets including SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, AVX, AES, FMA3, F16C, and MMX. Integrated graphics are present in the form of the UHD Graphics 710 with 16 execution units. The discrete GPU is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture and features 3,072 shading units, 96 texture mapping units, and 48 ROPs, with a memory bus width of 128-bit, a GPU memory speed of 2,000 MHz, an effective memory speed of 16,000 MHz, and a maximum memory bandwidth of 256 GB/s. The GPU supports multi-display output, stereoscopic 3D, OpenCL 3, OpenGL 4.6, and ECC memory, and carries a PassMark DirectCompute result of 6,787. The chip contains 18,900 million transistors and does not include LHR.