The Lenovo Legion 5 16IRX9 is a gaming laptop with a chassis measuring 359 × 262 × 19 mm and a volume of 1787.102 cm³, keeping the profile relatively slim for its class. It weighs 2360 g and uses an active cooling design rather than a fanless setup. The keyboard includes backlighting, while the build does not feature weather sealing or splashproofing. A one-year warranty is included, and the laptop is not weather-sealed.
The laptop features a 16″ IPS, LED-backlit LCD panel with a 2560 × 1600 px resolution and a pixel density of 188 ppi. It runs at a 165Hz refresh rate, making it well-suited for fast-paced content, and delivers a typical brightness of 350 nits alongside an anti-reflection coating to reduce glare. The display does not support touch input, and the system can drive up to four connected displays simultaneously.
The processor runs 16 cores across two clusters — eight at 2.2 GHz and eight at 1.6 GHz — with 24 threads, multithreading support, and a turbo frequency of 5.2 GHz, built on a 4 nm process. It is paired with 32GB of DDR5 RAM at 5600 MHz, expandable up to 64GB across two memory slots, alongside a 1024GB NVMe SSD using PCIe 4.0 for flash storage. On the graphics side, the GPU operates at a base clock of 1230 MHz with a boost up to 2175 MHz, backed by 8GB of GDDR6X VRAM delivering 20.04 TFLOPS of floating-point performance, a texture rate of 313.2 GTexels/s, and a pixel rate of 104.4 GPixel/s. The GPU supports DirectX 12 Ultimate and 64-bit operation, though it does not include XeSS (XMX) support.
In Geekbench 6, the laptop scores 13325 in the multi-core test and 2443 in the single-core test, reflecting the processor's threaded and single-threaded capabilities respectively. The overall PassMark result stands at 34910, with a single-core PassMark score of 3862. On the graphics side, the PassMark G3D benchmark registers 19574, indicating the GPU's rendering throughput as measured by that test.
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, along with a single HDMI 2.1 output and one RJ45 Ethernet port for wired networking. There are no Thunderbolt 3 or 4 ports, no DisplayPort or mini DisplayPort outputs, no USB 4 ports, and no VGA connector. Wireless connectivity covers Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) as well as Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 5, and Wi-Fi 4, paired with Bluetooth 5.2. The machine also includes an external memory slot and supports AirPlay.
The laptop is equipped with an 80 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, a 3.5 mm headset jack, and two built-in microphones, while Dolby Atmos and S/PDIF output are not supported. A front camera is present, though there is no fingerprint scanner, 3D facial recognition, or voice command functionality. On the graphics side, ray tracing and DLSS are both supported, adding to the machine's gaming-oriented feature set. Motion and location sensors — including a gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, and GPS — are absent, and no stylus is included. The laptop does not have an optical disc drive.
The discrete GPU is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture and features 4608 shading units, 144 texture mapping units, 48 render output units, and 16 execution units, with memory running at 2000 MHz across a 128-bit bus for an effective speed of 16000 MHz and a maximum bandwidth of 256 GB/s. It supports OpenCL 3, OpenGL 4.6, stereoscopic 3D, multi-display output, and Double Precision Floating Point, while LHR is not present. The integrated graphics solution is the UHD Graphics 710 with 16 execution units. On the CPU side, the laptop-class processor carries a 115W TDP, a 30 MB L3 cache, a clock multiplier of 22, and a maximum operating temperature of 100 °C, with big.LITTLE technology in use and an NX bit present, though the multiplier is locked. It supports the MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2 instruction sets, operates across two memory channels with a maximum RAM speed of 5600 MHz, and supports ECC memory. The PassMark DirectCompute result is 8162, and the overclocked PassMark score reaches 37537. The GPU contains 22900 million transistors.
