The Lenovo Legion Slim 5 16ARP9 is a gaming laptop with a relatively restrained physical footprint, measuring 359 mm wide, 260 mm deep, and just 19 mm thick, with a total volume of 1773.46 cm³. It weighs 2300 g and uses an active cooling system rather than a fanless design. The chassis is not weather-sealed, but it does include a backlit keyboard as a standard feature. The unit ships with a one-year warranty and does not support splashproofing of any kind.
The laptop features a 16″ IPS LCD panel with LED backlighting, delivering a resolution of 2560 x 1600 px at a pixel density of 188 ppi. It runs at a 165Hz refresh rate, making it well-suited for fast-paced content, and offers a typical brightness of 350 nits alongside an anti-reflection coating to reduce glare. The screen does not support touch input, and the system can drive up to 4 displays simultaneously in total.
The system is equipped with 16GB of DDR5 RAM running at 4800 MHz across two memory slots, with a maximum supported capacity of 64GB. The CPU operates at 8 x 3.2 GHz with a turbo boost reaching 4.75GHz, supports 16 threads with multithreading enabled, and is built on a 4 nm semiconductor process. Storage is handled by a 1024GB NVMe SSD using PCIe 4.0 and flash storage technology. On the graphics side, the GPU carries 8GB of GDDR6X VRAM, a base clock of 1230 MHz boosting up to 2175 MHz, and delivers 20.04 TFLOPS of floating-point performance alongside a texture rate of 313.2 GTexels/s and a pixel rate of 104.4 GPixel/s. The GPU supports DirectX 12 Ultimate but does not include XeSS, while the platform is fully 64-bit compatible.
In CPU benchmarks, the laptop scores 1929 in Geekbench 6 single-core and 8979 in Geekbench 6 multi-core, while Cinebench R20 results come in at 604 for single-thread and 5420 for multi-thread workloads. On the PassMark side, the system achieves a single-core score of 3295 and an overall PassMark result of 23164, with the GPU-focused PassMark G3D test returning a score of 19574.
The laptop's port selection includes one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C port and two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports, while Thunderbolt 3 and 4, USB 4, DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, and VGA outputs are absent. Video output is handled by a single HDMI 2.1 port, and an external memory slot is also available. Wireless connectivity covers Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) along with Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 5, and Wi-Fi 4 standards, paired with Bluetooth 5.3. A single RJ45 port provides wired network access, and AirPlay is supported as well.
The laptop is powered by an 80 Wh battery and includes sleep-and-charge USB ports, allowing connected devices to be charged even when the system is in sleep mode. It does not use a MagSafe power adapter.
The laptop includes stereo speakers, a 3.5 mm headset jack, and two 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 available, and voice commands are not supported. On the graphics side, the system supports both ray tracing and DLSS, catering to more demanding rendering workloads. There is no stylus included, and the device does not feature a gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, GPS, or an optical disc drive.
The GPU is based on the Ada Lovelace architecture and features 4608 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 2000 MHz, an effective memory speed of 16000 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 ECC memory, while LHR is not present. The integrated graphics solution is identified as the Radeon 680M with 12 execution units. On the CPU side, this is a laptop-class processor with a 115W TDP, a clock multiplier of 32, a maximum CPU temperature of 95 °C, and support for instruction sets including MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2; the multiplier is locked and big.LITTLE technology is not used. Cache configuration consists of 512 KB of L1, 4 MB of L2 at 0.5 MB per core, and 16 MB of L3 at 2 MB per core, with two memory channels and a maximum supported RAM speed of 6400 MHz. The NX bit is present, and the PassMark DirectCompute score stands at 8162, with an overclocked PassMark result of 23883. The GPU contains 22900 million transistors.
