The Lenovo Legion Slim 5 14APH8 is a gaming laptop with a compact footprint of 327 × 250 mm and a thickness of just 17 mm, giving it a relatively restrained physical profile for its category. It weighs 1,750 g and occupies a total volume of 1,389.75 cm³. The chassis is not fanless, meaning active cooling is present, and it is not weather-sealed. On the usability side, it includes a backlit keyboard and comes with a 2-year warranty.
The laptop features a 14.5″ OLED/AMOLED panel with a resolution of 2880 x 1800 px, yielding a pixel density of 234 ppi for a reasonably sharp image. It runs at a 120 Hz refresh rate, which benefits smoother motion in both gaming and general use, and reaches a typical brightness of 400 nits. The display does not include a touch screen or an anti-reflection coating, but it supports up to 4 external displays simultaneously.
The processor runs eight cores at a base speed of 3.8 GHz with a turbo ceiling of 5.1 GHz across 16 threads, built on a 5 nm process node with multithreading enabled and full 64-bit support. System memory stands at 32 GB of DDR5 RAM at 6,400 MHz, which is also the maximum supported amount, and storage is handled by a 1,024 GB NVMe SSD over a PCIe 4.0 interface. The GPU operates at a base clock of 1,545 MHz boosting up to 2,370 MHz, backed by 8 GB of GDDR6 VRAM, 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. DirectX 12 Ultimate is supported, and the system does not include XeSS support; memory slots for user upgrades are not available.
In Geekbench 6, the system scores 2,357 in the single-core test and 10,994 in the multi-core test, reflecting the CPU's throughput across all eight cores. On the PassMark side, the overall CPU result reaches 28,616 with a single-threaded score of 3,750, while the GPU records a PassMark G3D result of 17,710.
The laptop offers a wired port selection of two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C and two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports, along with a single HDMI 2.1 output for external display connectivity; there are no USB 4, Thunderbolt 3 or 4, DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, or RJ45 ports. An external memory slot is also present. On the wireless side, it supports Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) with backwards compatibility down to Wi-Fi 4, pairs with Bluetooth 5.2, and includes AirPlay support. A VGA connector is not available.
The laptop is equipped with a 73.6 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. A MagSafe power adapter is not supported.
On the audio side, the laptop includes stereo speakers, a 3.5 mm headset jack, and two built-in microphones, though it does not support Dolby Atmos or an S/PDIF output. A front camera is present, while biometric options such as a fingerprint scanner and 3D facial recognition are absent, and voice commands are not supported. The GPU supports ray tracing and DLSS, making these features available for compatible software. No stylus is included, and the device lacks an optical disc drive as well as motion and location sensors including a gyroscope, accelerometer, GPS, and compass.
The CPU carries a clock multiplier of 38, a maximum operating temperature of 100 °C, and a Thermal Design Power of 115W, with the multiplier locked and no big.LITTLE architecture in use. Its cache hierarchy consists of 512 KB of L1, 8 MB of L2 at 1 MB per core, and 16 MB of L3 at 2 MB per core, and it supports a range of instruction sets including MMX, SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, AVX, AVX2, AES, F16C, and FMA3, along with an NX bit and Double Precision Floating Point. The GPU is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture and pairs 3,072 shading units with 96 texture mapping units and 48 ROPs across 12 execution units; memory runs at 2,000 MHz with an effective speed of 16,000 MHz over a 128-bit bus, delivering up to 256 GB/s of bandwidth, and the maximum supported RAM speed reaches 7,500 MHz across two memory channels. The system supports stereoscopic 3D, multi-display output, ECC memory, OpenCL 3, OpenGL 4.6, and includes integrated graphics, while LHR is not present. The PassMark DirectCompute result stands at 6,787, and the GPU is built from 18,900 million transistors.
