The Lenovo Legion Slim 5 16APH8 is a gaming laptop with a 19 mm thin profile and dimensions of 359 mm wide by 260 mm deep, resulting in a total volume of 1,773.46 cm³. It weighs 2,400 g and features an active cooling design rather than a fanless setup. The keyboard includes backlighting, and the laptop is covered by a two-year warranty. It is not weather-sealed or splashproof.
The laptop features a 16″ IPS LCD panel with LED backlighting, delivering a 2560 x 1600 resolution at a pixel density of 141 ppi. It has a 144Hz refresh rate, making it well-suited for fast-paced content, and a typical brightness of 300 nits. An anti-reflection coating is included, though the display does not support touch input. The system can drive up to four simultaneous displays in total.
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 with a turbo frequency of 5.1 GHz, and supports 64-bit processing along with multithreading. It comes with 32GB of DDR5 RAM at 5,600 MHz across two memory slots, with 32GB being the maximum supported capacity. Storage is handled by a 1,024GB NVMe SSD using PCIe 4.0. On the graphics side, the GPU carries 8GB of GDDR6X VRAM, runs at a base clock of 1,230 MHz with a turbo of 2,175 MHz, and delivers 20.04 TFLOPS of floating-point performance, a texture rate of 313.2 GTexels/s, and a pixel rate of 104.4 GPixel/s. It supports DirectX 12 Ultimate but does not include XeSS (XMX).
In CPU benchmarks, the laptop scores 2,357 in Geekbench 6 single-core and 10,994 in Geekbench 6 multi-core, reflecting the multi-threaded capability of its processor. The overall PassMark result stands at 28,616, with a single-core PassMark score of 3,750. GPU performance is represented by a PassMark G3D score of 19,574.
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 there are no USB 4, Thunderbolt 3, or Thunderbolt 4 ports present. Video output is handled by a single HDMI 2.1 port, with no DisplayPort or VGA connectors available. Wired networking is supported via one RJ45 port, and wireless connectivity covers Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) as well as Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 5, and Wi-Fi 4, alongside Bluetooth 5.3. The laptop also includes an external memory slot and supports AirPlay.
The laptop is equipped with an 80 Wh battery and supports sleep-and-charge via its USB ports, allowing connected devices to be charged even when the laptop is not in active use. 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-facing camera, though it does not support Dolby Atmos or offer an S/PDIF output. On the graphics side, it supports both ray tracing and DLSS, while biometric security features such as a fingerprint scanner and 3D facial recognition are absent. No stylus is included, and the device lacks voice commands, GPS, gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, and an optical disc drive.
The GPU is based on the Ada Lovelace architecture and features 4,608 shading units, 144 texture mapping units, 48 render output units, 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 memory bandwidth of 256 GB/s. It supports stereoscopic 3D, multi-display output, double precision floating point, OpenCL 3, OpenGL 4.6, and carries a PassMark DirectCompute score of 8,162, while LHR is not present. The integrated graphics (Radeon 780M) accompanies the discrete GPU, and the CPU has a TDP of 115W, a clock multiplier of 38, a maximum operating temperature of 100 °C, and supports instruction sets including MMX, SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, AVX, AVX2, AES, F16C, and FMA3, though it does not use big.LITTLE technology and has a locked multiplier. Cache configuration consists of 512 KB L1, 8 MB L2 (1 MB/core), and 16 MB L3 (2 MB/core), with two memory channels, ECC memory support, and a maximum RAM speed of 7,500 MHz. The chip contains 22,900 million transistors and includes NX bit support.
