The Lenovo Legion Slim 5 16APH8 is a gaming laptop with a footprint of 359 mm wide by 260 mm deep and a thickness of just 19 mm, giving it a relatively compact form for its category with a total volume of 1,773.46 cm³. It weighs 2,400 g and uses an active cooling design rather than a fanless setup. The keyboard includes backlighting, while the chassis does not offer weather or splash resistance. The laptop comes with a 2-year warranty.
The laptop features a 16″ IPS LCD panel with LED backlighting, delivering a resolution of 1920 x 1200 px at a pixel density of 141 ppi. The screen runs at a 144Hz refresh rate, which suits fast-paced content, and offers a typical brightness of 300 nits alongside an anti-reflection coating to reduce glare. The display does not support touch input, and the system is capable of driving up to 4 displays simultaneously.
The system is powered by an 8-core, 16-thread CPU built on a 5 nm process, running at a base clock of 8 x 3.8 GHz with a turbo frequency of 5.1 GHz, and supports 64-bit operation along with multithreading. It comes with 16GB of DDR5 RAM at 5,600 MHz across two slots, expandable to a maximum of 32GB, paired with a 1,024GB NVMe SSD using PCIe 4.0. The discrete GPU operates at a base clock of 1,545 MHz and boosts up to 2,370 MHz, backed by 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM, delivering 14.56 TFLOPS of floating-point performance, a texture rate of 227.52 GTexels/s, and a pixel rate of 113.76 GPixel/s. The GPU supports DirectX 12 Ultimate but does not include XeSS acceleration.
In CPU benchmarking, the laptop scores 10,994 in Geekbench 6 multi-core and 2,357 in the single-core test, while the overall PassMark result comes in at 28,616 with a single-core PassMark score of 3,750. On the graphics side, the PassMark G3D benchmark registers 17,710, reflecting the discrete GPU's rendering throughput.
The laptop provides a well-rounded port selection, including 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 and one RJ45 Ethernet port for wired networking. There are no Thunderbolt 3 or 4 ports, no USB 4 ports, no DisplayPort or mini DisplayPort outputs, and no VGA connector. Wireless connectivity covers Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) as well as Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 5, and Wi-Fi 4, complemented by Bluetooth 5.3. The machine also includes an external memory slot and supports AirPlay.
The laptop is equipped with an 80 Wh battery and supports sleep-and-charge through its USB ports, allowing connected devices to be charged even when the system is in sleep mode. It does not use a MagSafe power adapter.
On the audio and multimedia side, the laptop includes stereo speakers, a 3.5 mm headset jack, a front camera, and two microphones, though it lacks Dolby Atmos, an S/PDIF output, and an optical disc drive. For graphics, it supports both ray tracing and DLSS, expanding rendering options for compatible software. The machine does not include a fingerprint scanner, 3D facial recognition, or voice command support, and it has no motion or positioning sensors such as a gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, or GPS. A stylus is also not included.
The CPU carries a TDP of 115W, a clock multiplier of 38, and a maximum operating temperature of 100 °C, with a locked multiplier and no big.LITTLE configuration. It supports the NX bit, doubles precision floating point (DPFP), and includes integrated graphics alongside the discrete GPU. The processor's cache hierarchy consists of 512 KB L1, 8 MB L2 (1 MB/core), and 16 MB L3 (2 MB/core), with memory running across 2 channels at up to 7,500 MHz. The GPU is based on the Ada Lovelace architecture and features 3,072 shading units, 96 TMUs, 48 ROPs, and 12 execution units, with a memory bus width of 128-bit, a GPU memory speed of 2,000 MHz, an effective memory speed of 16,000 MHz, and a maximum bandwidth of 256 GB/s. The GPU supports multi-display output, stereoscopic 3D, OpenCL 3, OpenGL 4.6, and ECC memory, and does not use LHR. The PassMark DirectCompute result stands at 6,787, the chip contains 18,900 million transistors, and the CPU supports instruction sets including MMX, SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, AVX, AVX2, AES, F16C, and FMA3.
