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, resulting in an overall volume of 1787.102 cm³. It weighs 2360 g and relies on an active cooling system rather than a fanless design. The chassis includes a backlit keyboard for use in low-light environments and comes backed by a two-year warranty. It is not weather-sealed, so it offers no splash protection.
The laptop features a 16-inch LCD IPS panel with LED backlighting, delivering a 2560 x 1600 px resolution at a pixel density of 188 ppi and a typical brightness of 350 nits. It runs at a 165Hz refresh rate, making it well-suited for fast-paced content, and includes an anti-reflection coating to reduce glare. The display does not support touch input, and the system can drive up to four screens simultaneously.
The processor runs ten cores across 16 threads with a base configuration of 6 x 2.4 GHz and 4 x 1.8 GHz, boosting up to 4.6 GHz, and is built on a 5 nm process with multithreading and 64-bit support. The system ships with 16GB of DDR5 RAM at 4800 MHz across two slots, expandable up to 64GB, paired with a 1TB NVMe SSD using flash storage over a PCIe 4.0 interface. On the graphics side, the GPU carries 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM with a base clock of 1545 MHz and a boost of 2370 MHz, delivering 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; XeSS is not supported.
In Geekbench 6, the laptop scores 2337 in the single-core test and 11891 in the multi-core test, reflecting the CPU's threaded workload capability. The overall PassMark result stands at 25071, with a single-core PassMark score of 3553, while the GPU-focused PassMark G3D benchmark registers 17710.
The laptop offers a solid range of ports, including two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C ports and three USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports, though there are no Thunderbolt 3 or 4 ports, no USB 4 ports, and no DisplayPort or mini DisplayPort outputs. Video output is handled by a single HDMI 2.1 port, and wired networking is covered by one RJ45 port. Wireless connectivity spans Wi-Fi 6E, Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 5, and Wi-Fi 4 standards, complemented by Bluetooth 5.2 and AirPlay support. The machine also includes an external memory slot, while a VGA connector is absent.
The laptop is equipped with an 80 Wh battery and supports sleep-and-charge functionality, allowing connected devices to be charged even when the laptop is not in active use. It does not include 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 and an S/PDIF output. A front camera is present, while biometric options such as a fingerprint scanner and 3D facial recognition are not included, and voice commands are not supported. On the GPU feature side, the system supports both ray tracing and DLSS, making it capable of hardware-accelerated visuals in compatible titles. Motion and location sensors — including a gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, and GPS — are absent, no stylus is bundled, and there is no optical disc drive.
The CPU is a laptop-class processor using big.LITTLE technology with a clock multiplier of 24, an unlocked multiplier, a maximum operating temperature of 100 °C, a TDP of 115W, and an NX bit for hardware-level security. It carries 16 MB of L2 cache and 20 MB of L3 cache, supports a maximum RAM speed of 4800 MHz across two memory channels, and is compatible with instruction sets including SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, AVX, AES, FMA3, F16C, and MMX, along with Double Precision Floating Point and ECC memory support. The integrated graphics unit — UHD Graphics 710 — features 16 execution units, while the discrete GPU is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture with 3072 shading units, 96 texture mapping units, 48 ROPs, and a 128-bit memory bus running at 2000 MHz with an effective speed of 16000 MHz and a maximum bandwidth of 256 GB/s. The GPU supports multi-display output, stereoscopic 3D, OpenCL 3, OpenGL 4.6, and Double Precision Floating Point, and contains 18,900 million transistors; LHR is not present. The PassMark DirectCompute result stands at 6787.
