The Lenovo Legion Slim 5 16IRH8 is classified as a gaming laptop with a physical footprint of 359 mm wide by 260 mm deep and a 19 mm thickness, resulting in a total volume of 1,773.46 cm³. It weighs 2,400 g and does not use a fanless design, meaning active cooling is in place. The keyboard features backlighting, while the chassis is not weather-sealed or splashproof. The laptop comes with a 1-year warranty.
The laptop features a 16″ IPS LCD panel with LED backlighting, rendering content at a 1920 x 1200 px resolution and a pixel density of 141 ppi. Typical brightness is rated at 300 nits, and the screen includes an anti-reflection coating to reduce glare. With a 144Hz refresh rate, the display is suited for smoother visual output during fast-paced content. Touch input is not supported, and the system can drive up to 4 displays in total.
The system is equipped with 16GB of DDR5 RAM running at 5,200 MHz, expandable up to 32GB across two memory slots, paired with a 512GB NVMe SSD for flash-based storage. The CPU operates at 4 x 2.1 GHz and 4 x 1.5 GHz across its cores, reaching a turbo clock of 4.6 GHz, with 12 threads and multithreading support enabled; it is built on an 8 nm process and supports 64-bit operations. On the graphics side, the GPU carries 4GB of GDDR6 VRAM, a base clock of 712 MHz boosting up to 1,740 MHz, and delivers 4.329 TFLOPS of floating-point performance alongside a texture rate of 67.65 GTexels/s and a pixel rate of 42.28 GPixel/s. The GPU is compatible with DirectX 12 Ultimate and connects via PCIe 4, though XeSS (XMX) is not supported.
In standardized PassMark testing, the laptop records an overall CPU score of 17,409 and a single-core score of 3,396, reflecting the processing capability of the Intel Core i5-13420H. The GPU achieves a PassMark G3D score of 9,278, representing the graphics rendering performance of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050.
The laptop offers a well-rounded port selection, including two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C and two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports, while Thunderbolt 3, Thunderbolt 4, USB 4, DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, and VGA outputs are absent. A single HDMI 2.1 port handles video output, and one RJ45 port provides wired network connectivity. Wireless options cover Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) along with Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 5, and Wi-Fi 4, complemented by Bluetooth 5.3. An external memory slot is present, and AirPlay is supported.
The laptop is fitted 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. A MagSafe power adapter is not included.
Audio output is handled by stereo speakers with a 3.5 mm headset jack available, while two built-in microphones cover voice capture; Dolby Atmos and S/PDIF output are not included. The laptop has a front camera but lacks a fingerprint scanner, 3D facial recognition, and voice command support. On the graphics side, the GPU supports both ray tracing and DLSS, adding hardware-accelerated rendering options for compatible applications. Sensor-wise, there is no gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, or GPS, and no stylus is included in the box. An optical disc drive is also absent.
The CPU carries a clock multiplier of 21, a maximum operating temperature of 100 °C, and a TDP of 75W, with the multiplier locked; it supports big.LITTLE technology, ECC memory, Double Precision Floating Point, and NX bit, while utilizing two memory channels and a maximum RAM speed of 5,200 MHz. The processor also includes integrated Iris Xe Graphics with 48 execution units, alongside the dedicated Ampere-architecture GPU, which features 2,048 shading units, 64 texture mapping units, 40 ROPs, a 128-bit memory bus, and a maximum memory bandwidth of 192 GB/s at an effective memory speed of 12,000 MHz. Intel Resizable BAR is supported, LHR is not present, and air-water cooling is not used. On the software side, the GPU supports OpenCL 3, OpenGL 4.6, and stereoscopic 3D. The CPU instruction sets include SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, AVX, AES, FMA3, F16C, and MMX, with an L2 cache of 8 MB and an L3 cache of 12 MB.
