The Lenovo Legion 5 16IRX9 is a gaming laptop with a footprint of 359 × 262 mm and a thickness of just 19 mm, giving it a total volume of 1787.102 cm³. It weighs 2360 g and relies on an active cooling solution rather than a fanless design. The chassis includes a backlit keyboard for low-light use and is covered by a two-year warranty. It is not weather-sealed or splashproof, so care should be taken around liquids.
The laptop features a 16″ IPS LCD panel with LED backlighting, rendering content at 2560 × 1600 pixels for 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 visuals. An anti-reflection coating is applied to the screen surface, though the display does not support touch input. The system can drive up to four connected displays simultaneously.
The processor runs across 20 cores with 28 threads, clocked at 8 × 2.1 GHz and 12 × 1.5 GHz with a turbo frequency reaching 5.5GHz, and is built on a 4 nm process node with support for multithreading and 64-bit operation. System memory stands at 16GB of DDR5 RAM at 5600 MHz across two slots, expandable up to 64GB. Storage is handled by a 1024GB NVMe SSD connected over PCIe 4.0. On the graphics side, the GPU carries 8GB of GDDR6X VRAM, runs at a base clock of 1230 MHz with a turbo of 2175 MHz, and delivers 20.04 TFLOPS of floating-point performance alongside a texture rate of 313.2 GTexels/s and a pixel rate of 104.4 GPixel/s, with support for DirectX 12 Ultimate but no XeSS capability.
In CPU benchmarking, the system scores 13,529 in Geekbench 6 multi-core and 2,504 in the single-core test. The overall PassMark result comes in at 37,155, with a single-threaded PassMark score of 3,987. On the graphics side, the PassMark G3D result reaches 19,574, reflecting the GPU's rendering capabilities under that particular workload.
The laptop's wired port selection includes 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; there are no Thunderbolt 3 or 4 ports, no DisplayPort or mini DisplayPort outputs, and no VGA connector. An external memory slot is also present. For wireless connectivity, the machine supports Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) as well as Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 5, and Wi-Fi 4, paired with Bluetooth 5.2. AirPlay is supported as well.
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 system is powered off or in sleep mode. It does not use a MagSafe power adapter.
On the audio side, the laptop features stereo speakers and a 3.5 mm headset jack, supported by two built-in microphones, though it lacks Dolby Atmos and an S/PDIF output. A front camera is included, but there is no fingerprint scanner, 3D facial recognition, or voice command support. The GPU supports ray tracing and DLSS, catering to graphics-intensive workloads. No stylus is included, and the device does not feature a gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, or GPS, nor does it have an optical disc drive.
The CPU operates with a clock multiplier of 21, a maximum temperature of 100 °C, a TDP of 115W, and a 33 MB L3 cache, employing big.LITTLE technology and supporting instruction sets including MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2; the multiplier is locked and NX bit protection is active. Integrated graphics are present in the form of the UHD Graphics 770 with 32 execution units, while the discrete GPU is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture and comprises 4,608 shading units, 144 texture mapping units, and 48 ROPs, backed by a 128-bit memory bus running at 2000 MHz for an effective memory speed of 16,000 MHz and a maximum bandwidth of 256 GB/s. The GPU supports multi-display output, stereoscopic 3D, Double Precision Floating Point, OpenCL 3, and OpenGL 4.6, and does not use LHR. Memory runs across two channels with a maximum speed of 5600 MHz and ECC support. The PassMark DirectCompute result is 8,162, the overclocked PassMark score reaches 39,466, and the GPU contains approximately 22,900 million transistors.
