The Lenovo Legion 5, depending on your configuration, it's anywhere from an
absolute balls-to-the-wall mobile gaming machine to, well, just a reasonable,
nice little value config. And we're going to be looking at just that in both
Intel and AMD variations today, and this video is
sponsored by Lenovo. But first, a bit of background on the Lenovo Legion 5
laptop. They made it for gamers out there who want something that performs,
but without the flash. So, like a more
minimalistic design for someone who wants to carry it around with them during the day for everyday tasks, but
also use it for late-night gaming sessions. It's cooled with their
Coldfront 2.0 technology to prevent it from overheating and avoid thermal
throttling, and we'll talk more about that later. Why don't we start with the
Intel one. So, let's get this unboxing on the road. This is the Intel one,
right? Oh, yeah. Intel inside. So, this
is a pretty moderate spec machine. 8 gigs of RAM, 512 gig SSD, a terabyte of
hard drive space. I mean, you pretty much need that for a lot of the modern
games these days. And we're rocking a GTX 1660 Ti. So, no real-time ray
tracing or anything like that, but for eSports titles like Rainbow Six Siege,
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, you're going to be having a pretty good
experience. And that is Wait, is this how you are intended to
unbox it? That's trippy.
It like lifts the laptop up for you. Mhm, let's see what we've got in here in
terms of accessories real quick first.
Got a beefy power brick right here, as well as the wall plug that goes into it.
So, that's a standard like PC-style wall plug, same kind that would go into your
desktop, actually. So, it'll do up to 230 watts. I guess that makes sense,
given that you can configure this bad boy with up to an RTX 2060. Let's Let's
this puppy opened up. Oh, there we go.
One of the standout features last time around when we were just looking at the
Intel version of this machine was, of course, the cooling. So, no matter how
long we ran our game for, it never thermal throttled, and that's pretty
impressive when you consider that it's not crazy thick like the gaming laptops
of yore. Running Windows 10, obviously, cuz what
else would you run on a gaming laptop? USB type-A, headphone jack, ventilation,
ventilation. Actually kind of love the rear IO, especially for something like a
gaming machine, so you don't have all of your ports like along the right where
you're trying to move your mouse. Two more USB type-As, USB-C, dedicated
network port, love to see that, HDMI, and of course Lenovo's power plug, more
ventilation, more ventilation, and one more USB type-A. So, it's loaded for
bear as far as IO goes. For the screen, you can get up to a 240
Hz DisplayHDR 400 certified display. It's apparently Dolby Vision capable,
but since it's DisplayHDR 400 only, I would temper your expectations. The
content will display correctly, but
you're not necessarily going to see the same kind of uh range that you would on
something like a thousand nit peak brightness TV, for example. Mobile
devices still have a ways to go as far as HDR is concerned. Now, let's have a
look at which display option we got. That does not appear to be the 240 Hz
option. That's okay, this is a more budget-oriented build. Yes, this is the
60 Hz version, so it's unlikely that it also has the same 1 ms response time of
the 240 Hz display. That is the one that I would definitely go to if you're going
RTX 2060 or over and you're playing
competitive games. Another key feature from last time is the TrueStrike
keyboard. So, it has 1.3 mm of travel,
so that's pretty darn long travel for a laptop keyboard. It's got a really nice
not just sound, but also like kind of a bottoming out feel to it. It's It's
quite cushiony. Lenovo also made the decision while working with the Dolby
team and placed the speaker at the bottom of the keyboard instead of the
top. So, this allowed them to make the trackpad larger without sacrificing
sound quality. Of course,
that's Intel. You guys want to see the AMD version,
don't you? Yeah, you do. I want to see the AMD version.
Here we go, L's and G's.
All right. I'm assuming it's the same power
adapter. Wait. It's not.
Because of its more pedestrian graphics configuration, the AMD version, at least
the one we got, comes with only a 170 W brick. So, this probably also
implicit praise for AMD's excellent power efficiency with their Ryzen 4000
series processors. It can be configured with up to a Ryzen 4800H, which is a
pretty smoking little beast. This is
such a game-changing time right now. Like, the fact that you can not only
get, and, you know, a Ryzen laptop from
a tier-one OEM like Lenovo, not just that, but the fact that the it gets the
same quality of chassis and like build
materials as the Intel version. Like, guys,
that was not a thing not that long ago. Like, this is exactly the same keyboard.
Like, ah! It's freaking awesome. Now, our config
is a little bit lower on this one. It's a 1650 instead of a 1660 Ti, but that
doesn't mean that it's not gaming capable. Actually, this looks like a smoother
display as well. So, this seems to be kind of like an e-sports config.
120 Hz, yep. Oh, cool. It's got a little
um camera cover-y slider doodad. Oh, I
didn't even check exactly what CPU we're running on this config.
4800H with Radeon graphics. Eight core
freaking 16 thread processor in a laptop.
Love it. All right, we're gaming, we're recording
actually using the NVENC encoder on the
GTX graphics card and this is like match
made in heaven here. We're running anywhere from 100 to 130 FPS. Hold on a
second, I'm going to take over one of my bots here and this is on a 120 Hz
display. And remember, this is while recording. Oh my goodness, did I just
get killed by easy bots twice? Enough. This is what happens I try to
host a video while I'm trying to headshot
noob bots. Come try and get your precious bomb, losers. To be clear, this
is just This is the unboxing first impressions experience. It's not a full
review by any stretch of the imagination, but I still am curious if
we're going to see it like really ramp up and get loud.
Honestly, I kind of doubt it in this config especially.
I just died again. Wait, it's over? Bot Walt MVP.
That's not bad, eh? That's a pretty low That's a pretty low whoosh for a laptop.
Uh oh yeah, function Q. So, you can switch between uh quiet, auto and like
redline mode. Uh there we go. All right, let's go to the redline then.
Again, on this config I think this kind of cooling system's barely even working
at it. So, I'm not expecting to see like a big FPS jump from adding more cooling.
Yeah, it's about the same. Okay. It also just didn't get any louder.
Let's go to quiet mode. Man, these Ryzen chips.
Cool, quiet. All right, should we try something a little heavier? Yeah. Uh I
don't know the controls of this game. That's not bad. 45 FPS in this game
actually looks pretty good. It all comes
down to how well the game dev is optimized for lower frame rates and it's
steady, which matters a lot. So, this is running
at medium 1080, not like a resolution
scaled upscaled 1080, like it's actually running at native 1080. I'm totally
going the wrong way, aren't I? Okay. I made my way into a corner.
Well, that's fine. All I really wanted to know is how the game runs. So, you
can definitely get away with medium at full 1080p with a little bit of settings
tweaking if you want to hit like 50 plus 60 FPS.
So, now we know. Quiet.
Oh, this is in quiet mode even. Was that function key right? Probably overlay is
not coming up for me. Oh, well. I think the light of the power button changes.
So, it does. Look at that. It's color-coded. All right, we're in balance mode now. I
would leave this sticker on forever. That's the kind of sticker I just
wouldn't remove. Now, all that remains is to have a quick look at this cooling
solution that's doing such a great job here.
There we go. Not bad. And that's it, hey?
Got these super thin fan blades on here. Apparently, there's like 70 plus parts
in this cooling system. Like very, very
OP considering how again, how efficient these Ryzen 4000s are. So, what can we
upgrade? We've got an M.2 here. Oh, okay,
interesting. So, there's we've got a hard drive here and or you can remove
the hard drive and you can install an M.2 across this gap here.
Then, you've got another M.2 here and it
looks like that's going to be our Wi-Fi card right there.
There we go. Not a ton to upgrade. In particular, you'll notice that there's
no sodium memory slots. So, if you don't think 8 gigs of RAM is enough, which it
may very well not be, some games are actually asking for 16 gigs of RAM in
order to even launch them, then I would definitely advise you to order the 16
gig RAM version right out of the gate. So, that's the Lenovo Legion 5 in both
the AMD and Intel versions at the current specs that were sent to us, but
you can configure and spec it to whatever you'd like to fit your needs at
lenovo.com/legion. It's compact, minimalistic, and
powerful, and you can game on it for hours without overheating thanks to its
cold front 2.0 cooling system. So, you'll find the link to where to check
out both the Intel and AMD specs in the video description. Thanks again to
Lenovo for sponsoring this video, and you guys, of course, for watching.