The Lenovo Legion 5 16IRX9 is classified as a gaming laptop with a footprint of 359 × 262 mm and a thickness of just 19 mm, resulting in a total volume of 1787.102 cm³. It weighs 2360 g and features a backlit keyboard, while the cooling relies on an active fan system rather than a fanless design. The unit is not weather-sealed, and it comes with a 1-year warranty.
The laptop features a 16″ IPS LCD panel with LED backlighting, delivering a resolution of 2560 × 1600 px at a pixel density of 188 ppi. It operates at a 165Hz refresh rate and reaches a typical brightness of 350 nits, with an anti-reflection coating applied to the screen surface. The display does not support touch input, and the system can drive up to four connected displays simultaneously.
The processor runs across 24 cores — eight at 2.2 GHz and sixteen at 1.6 GHz — with a turbo ceiling of 5.8 GHz, 32 threads, multithreading support, and a 4 nm semiconductor process, while the chip is 64-bit compatible. System memory stands at 32GB of DDR5 RAM at 5600 MHz across two slots, expandable to a maximum of 64GB. Storage is handled by a 1024GB NVMe SSD connected via PCIe 4.0, using flash storage technology. On the graphics side, the GPU base clock runs at 1230 MHz and boosts 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, with DirectX 12 Ultimate support; XeSS is not supported.
In CPU benchmarking, the system scores 15,655 in Geekbench 6 multi-core and 2,680 in the single-core test, while the overall PassMark result reaches 45,332 with a single-thread score of 4,245. Graphics performance is reflected in a PassMark G3D score of 19,574.
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, alongside a single HDMI 2.1 output and one RJ45 port for wired networking; there are no Thunderbolt, DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, or VGA connectors. Wireless connectivity is handled by Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) with backward compatibility down to Wi-Fi 4, paired with Bluetooth 5.2. The unit also includes an external memory slot and supports AirPlay.
The laptop 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 is equipped with stereo speakers and a 3.5 mm headset jack, though it lacks Dolby Atmos and an S/PDIF output. A front camera is included, while fingerprint scanning, 3D facial recognition, and voice commands are not available. The GPU supports ray tracing and DLSS, adding to its gaming-oriented feature set. Sensor-wise, the laptop does not include a gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, or GPS, and no stylus is bundled in the box. There is also no optical disc drive.
The CPU is a laptop-class processor built on big.LITTLE technology with a clock multiplier of 22, a maximum operating temperature of 100 °C, a TDP of 115W, and a 36 MB L3 cache; it supports the NX bit, Double Precision Floating Point, and instruction sets including MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2, though the multiplier is not unlocked. Integrated graphics are present alongside the dedicated GPU, which is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture and counts 22,900 million transistors, 4,608 shading units, 144 TMUs, and 48 ROPs; it does not carry LHR. The GPU memory runs at 2,000 MHz with an effective speed of 16,000 MHz across a 128-bit bus, yielding a maximum bandwidth of 256 GB/s, and the PassMark DirectCompute result stands at 8,162. The system supports ECC memory across two channels with a maximum RAM speed of 5,600 MHz, and the GPU is compatible with OpenCL 3 and OpenGL 4.6, stereoscopic 3D, and multi-display output.
