The Lenovo Legion 5 16IRX9 is classified as a gaming laptop and carries a weight of 2360 g, with a footprint of 359 mm wide by 262 mm tall and a thickness of just 19 mm, resulting in a total volume of 1787.102 cm³. It features a backlit keyboard and does not use a fanless design, meaning active cooling is present. The chassis is not weather-sealed, so it offers no splash protection. The laptop comes with a 3-year warranty.
The laptop features a 16″ IPS LCD panel with LED backlighting and a 2560 × 1600 px resolution, translating to a pixel density of 188 ppi for reasonably sharp image rendering. Typical brightness is rated at 350 nits, and the screen includes an anti-reflection coating, though it does not support touch input. The 165Hz refresh rate makes it well-suited for fast-paced content, while the display subsystem supports up to 4 connected displays simultaneously.
The system is equipped with 16GB of DDR5 RAM running at 5600 MHz across two memory slots, with a maximum supported capacity of 64GB. The CPU operates at 8 cores clocked at 2.1 GHz and 12 cores at 1.5 GHz, totaling 28 threads with multithreading enabled, a turbo frequency of 5.5 GHz, and a 5 nm semiconductor process; it supports 64-bit operation but does not carry an unlocked multiplier. Storage is handled by a 1024GB NVMe SSD using flash storage over a PCIe 4.0 interface. On the graphics side, the GPU runs at a base clock of 1545 MHz with a boost up to 2370 MHz, backed by 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM, delivering 14.56 TFLOPS of floating-point performance, a texture rate of 227.52 GTexels/s, a pixel rate of 113.76 GPixel/s, and support for DirectX 12 Ultimate; XeSS is not supported.
In CPU benchmarking, the laptop scores 13,529 in Geekbench 6 multi-core and 2,504 in the single-core test, while the overall PassMark result sits at 37,155 with a single-core PassMark score of 3,987. GPU performance is reflected in a PassMark G3D result of 17,710.
The laptop offers a reasonable spread of wired and wireless connectivity options. On the USB side, there are 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 USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports are absent. Video output is handled by a single HDMI 2.1 port, with no DisplayPort or mini DisplayPort outputs available, and there is no VGA connector. Wired networking is covered by one RJ45 port, and the machine also includes an external memory slot. Wireless connectivity spans Wi-Fi 6E, Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 5, and Wi-Fi 4 standards, paired with Bluetooth 5.2, and AirPlay is supported as well.
The laptop is powered by an 80 Wh battery and includes sleep-and-charge USB ports, allowing connected devices to be charged even when the machine is powered off or in sleep mode. It does not use a MagSafe power adapter.
For audio, the laptop includes stereo speakers, a 3.5 mm headset jack, and two built-in microphones, though it lacks Dolby Atmos support and has no S/PDIF output. A front camera is present for video calls, but there is no fingerprint scanner, 3D facial recognition, or voice command functionality. On the graphics feature side, the machine supports both ray tracing and DLSS. Motion and positioning sensors — including a gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, and GPS — are all absent, and no stylus is included. There is also no optical disc drive.
The CPU is a laptop-type processor using big.LITTLE technology with a clock multiplier of 21, a TDP of 115W, a maximum operating temperature of 100 °C, and a 33 MB L3 cache; it supports NX bit and Double Precision Floating Point but does not have an unlocked multiplier. Supported instruction sets include MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2, and the chip includes integrated UHD Graphics 770 with 32 execution units. The discrete GPU is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture and comprises 3,072 shading units, 96 texture mapping units, and 48 ROPs, with a 128-bit memory bus, a GPU memory speed of 2000 MHz, an effective memory speed of 16,000 MHz, and a maximum memory bandwidth of 256 GB/s across 2 memory channels capped at 5600 MHz. The system supports stereoscopic 3D, multi-display output, ECC memory, OpenCL 3, OpenGL 4.6, and DPFP, while LHR is not present. The GPU contains 18,900 million transistors, and benchmark figures include a PassMark DirectCompute result of 6,787 and an overclocked PassMark score of 39,466.
