The Lenovo Legion 5 16IRX9 is a gaming laptop with a footprint of 359 mm wide by 262 mm tall and a thickness of just 19 mm, giving it a relatively slim profile for its category. It weighs 2360 g and has a total volume of 1787.102 cm³. The laptop includes a backlit keyboard but does not use a fanless design, nor does it offer weather or splash resistance. It comes with a one-year warranty.
The laptop features a 16-inch IPS LCD panel with LED backlighting, running at a resolution of 2560 x 1600 px and a pixel density of 188 ppi. It supports 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 for reduced glare. The display does not support touch input, and the system can drive up to four connected displays simultaneously.
The system is equipped with 32GB 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 2.2 GHz and 16 cores at 1.6 GHz, totalling 32 threads with multithreading enabled and a turbo frequency reaching 5.8 GHz, built on a 5 nm semiconductor process. Storage is handled by a 1024GB NVMe SSD connected over PCIe 4.0. On the graphics side, the GPU carries 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM, a base clock of 1545 MHz boosting to 2370 MHz, and delivers 14.56 TFLOPS of floating-point performance alongside a texture rate of 227.52 GTexels/s and a pixel rate of 113.76 GPixel/s, with support for DirectX 12 Ultimate and 64-bit operation; XeSS (XMX) is not supported.
In CPU benchmarks, the laptop scores 15655 in Geekbench 6 multi-core and 2680 in the single-core test, reflecting the processor's multi-threaded and single-threaded capabilities respectively. The overall PassMark result stands at 45332, with a single-core PassMark score of 4245. GPU performance is measured at a PassMark G3D result of 17710.
The laptop offers a well-rounded port selection, including two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C ports, three USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports, and one HDMI 2.1 output for external display connectivity; there are no Thunderbolt 3 or 4 ports, no DisplayPort or mini DisplayPort outputs, and no VGA connector. Wired networking is covered by a single RJ45 port, while wireless connectivity spans Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) down through Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n), complemented by Bluetooth 5.2. The laptop also includes an external memory slot and supports AirPlay.
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 system 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, two built-in microphones, and a front camera, though it lacks Dolby Atmos, an S/PDIF output, and an optical disc drive. On the graphics feature side, it supports both ray tracing and DLSS, while biometric options are absent — there is no fingerprint scanner and no 3D facial recognition. The device does not include a stylus, voice commands, or any motion and location sensors such as a gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, or GPS.
The CPU is a laptop-class processor using big.LITTLE technology with a clock multiplier of 22, a TDP of 115W, a maximum operating temperature of 100 °C, and a 36 MB L3 cache; it supports a range of instruction sets including MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2, along with the NX bit for hardware-level security, but does not have an unlocked multiplier. Memory runs across two channels at up to 5600 MHz, and the system supports ECC memory. The GPU is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture and features 3072 shading units, 96 texture mapping units, 48 ROPs, and 32 execution units, with a memory bus width of 128-bit, a GPU memory speed of 2000 MHz, an effective memory speed of 16000 MHz, and a maximum memory 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 unit is identified as UHD Graphics 770 with 32 execution units, and the PassMark DirectCompute result is 6787. The processor contains 18900 million transistors.
