The Lenovo Legion 5 16IRX9 is classified as a gaming laptop with a footprint of 359 mm wide by 262 mm tall and a slim 19 mm thickness, resulting in a total volume of 1787.102 cm³. It weighs 2360 g and relies on an active cooling system rather than a fanless design. The keyboard is backlit, adding usability in low-light conditions. The chassis is not weather-sealed, so it offers no splash protection, and the unit comes with a 1-year warranty.
The laptop features a 16″ IPS LCD panel with LED backlighting, delivering a 2560 x 1600 px resolution at a pixel density of 188 ppi. It has a typical brightness of 350 nits and a 165Hz refresh rate, making it well-suited for fast-paced content. An anti-reflection coating is present to reduce glare, though the display does not support touch input. The system can drive up to 4 displays simultaneously.
The processor runs 16 cores across 24 threads with a base configuration of 8 cores at 2.2 GHz and 8 cores at 1.6 GHz, boosting up to 5.2 GHz, and is built on a 4 nm process with multithreading and 64-bit support. The system comes with 16GB of DDR5 RAM at 5600 MHz across 2 memory slots, expandable up to 64GB. Storage is handled by a 1024GB NVMe SSD connected via PCIe 4.0. On the graphics side, the GPU runs at a base clock of 1605 MHz and boosts to 2370 MHz, backed by 6GB of GDDR6 VRAM, delivering 12.13 TFLOPS of floating-point performance, a texture rate of 204.8 GTexels/s, and a pixel rate of 113.76 GPixel/s, with support for DirectX 12 Ultimate but no XeSS support.
In CPU benchmarks, the laptop scores 13325 in Geekbench 6 multi-core and 2443 in the single-core test, while the overall PassMark result reaches 34910 with a single-core PassMark score of 3862. Graphics performance is reflected in a PassMark G3D score of 17148.
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, DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, and VGA outputs are absent. Video output is handled by a single HDMI 2.1 port. Wired networking is covered by one RJ45 Ethernet jack, and wireless connectivity spans Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) down through Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n), paired with Bluetooth 5.2. An external memory slot and AirPlay support are also included.
The laptop is equipped with an 80 Wh battery and supports sleep-and-charge via its USB ports, allowing connected devices to be charged even when the laptop is not in active use. It does not include a MagSafe power adapter.
Audio is handled by stereo speakers and a 3.5 mm headset jack, though Dolby Atmos and S/PDIF output are not supported. The laptop includes a front camera and two microphones, but lacks a fingerprint scanner, 3D facial recognition, and voice command functionality. On the graphics side, it supports both ray tracing and DLSS, while sensors such as a gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, and GPS are absent. No stylus is included, and there is no optical disc drive.
The CPU is a laptop-class processor using big.LITTLE technology with a clock multiplier of 22, a 30 MB L3 cache, a maximum operating temperature of 100 °C, a TDP of 115W, and NX bit support, though its multiplier is not unlocked. It supports instruction sets including MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2, and is paired with integrated UHD Graphics 710 featuring 16 execution units. The discrete GPU is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture with 2560 shading units, 80 TMUs, 48 ROPs, a 96-bit memory bus, a GPU memory speed of 2000 MHz, an effective memory speed of 16000 MHz, and a maximum bandwidth of 192 GB/s; it supports multi-display output, stereoscopic 3D, Double Precision Floating Point, and Intel Resizable BAR, but does not include LHR. The system supports OpenCL 3 and OpenGL 4.6, ECC memory across 2 memory channels with a maximum RAM speed of 5600 MHz, and achieves a PassMark overclocked score of 37537. The CPU is built from 18900 million transistors.
