The Lenovo Legion Slim 5 16AHP9 is classified as a gaming laptop with a physical footprint of 359 mm wide, 260 mm deep, and 19 mm thick, resulting in a total volume of 1773.46 cm³. It weighs 2300 g and relies on an active cooling system rather than a fanless design. The chassis is not weather-sealed, so it offers no splash resistance. Usability touches include a backlit keyboard for low-light sessions, and the laptop comes covered by a 2-year warranty.
The laptop features a 16″ IPS LCD panel with LED backlighting, delivering a 2560 x 1600 resolution at a pixel density of 188 ppi. It operates at a 165Hz refresh rate, making it well-suited for fast-paced content, and offers a typical brightness of 300 nits alongside an anti-reflection coating to help manage glare. The display does not support touch input, and the system can drive up to four connected screens simultaneously.
The system is powered by an 8-core, 16-thread CPU built on a 4 nm process, running at a base clock of 8 x 3.8 GHz and reaching up to 5.1 GHz in turbo mode, with multithreading and 64-bit support enabled. It comes equipped with 16GB of DDR5 RAM at 5600 MHz across two slots, expandable to a maximum of 64GB, paired with a 1024GB NVMe SSD for flash-based storage. The discrete GPU operates at a base clock of 1605 MHz, boosting to 2370 MHz, and features 6GB of GDDR6 VRAM delivering 12.13 TFLOPS of floating-point performance, a texture rate of 204.8 GTexels/s, and a pixel rate of 113.76 GPixel/s. It supports DirectX 12 Ultimate and PCIe 4.0, though XeSS (XMX) acceleration is not available.
In CPU benchmarking, the laptop scores 11009 in Geekbench 6 multi-core and 2331 in the single-core test, reflecting the processor's threaded and single-threaded output respectively. The overall PassMark result comes in at 28497, with a single-core PassMark score of 3738. On the graphics side, the GPU achieves a PassMark G3D score of 17148, giving a concrete measure of its rendering throughput.
The laptop provides a solid range of wired and wireless connectivity options. On the USB front, it includes two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C ports and two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports, while USB 4, Thunderbolt 3, and Thunderbolt 4 are not present. Video output is handled by a single HDMI 2.1 port, with no DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, or VGA connector available. Wired networking is covered by one RJ45 Ethernet port, and wireless connectivity spans Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) down through Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n), complemented by Bluetooth 5.3. The laptop also includes an external memory slot and supports AirPlay, but does not feature a VGA connector.
The laptop is equipped with an 80 Wh battery and supports sleep-and-charge functionality, allowing connected USB devices to be charged even when the system is powered off or in sleep mode. It does not use a MagSafe power adapter.
For audio, 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 for video calls, but there is no fingerprint scanner, 3D facial recognition, or voice command functionality. On the graphics side, the machine supports both ray tracing and DLSS, adding to its gaming-oriented feature set. Motion and positioning sensors such as a gyroscope, accelerometer, GPS, and compass are not included, nor is an optical disc drive or a stylus.
The discrete GPU is based on the Ada Lovelace architecture and features 2560 shading units, 80 texture mapping units, 48 ROPs, and 12 execution units, with a memory bus width of 96-bit, a GPU memory speed of 2000 MHz, an effective memory speed of 16000 MHz, and a maximum memory bandwidth of 192 GB/s. It supports OpenCL 3, OpenGL 4.6, stereoscopic 3D, multi-display output, and Double Precision Floating Point, and does not include LHR. The integrated GPU is identified as the Radeon 780M. On the CPU side, this laptop-class processor carries a 115W TDP, a clock multiplier of 38, a maximum operating temperature of 100 °C, and a transistor count of 18900 million, with NX bit support and instruction sets covering MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2; big.LITTLE technology and an unlocked multiplier are not present. Cache is organized as 512 KB L1, 8 MB L2 at 1 MB/core, and 16 MB L3 at 2 MB/core, while the dual-channel memory subsystem supports ECC and a maximum RAM speed of 7500 MHz. Intel Resizable BAR is supported, and the overclocked PassMark result stands at 29732.
