The new Legion lineup consists of some of Lenovo’s finest gaming laptops – and the 5i is among them. It comes in several 15-inch and 17-inch models, including a “Premium” version of each. The lowest priced model of the Lenovo Legion 5i of either size still has the GeForce GTX 1650 (4GB) graphics with award-winning NVIDIA Turing architecture, which itself is powerful enough to do a lot of gaming.
Since frame speed matters in a lot of games – even for casual players – everybody wants to know that they’re getting the most speed for their money. The top of the line models in the higher-end range, offer maximum frame rates in even the most graphically demanding titles. Both the 15.6-inch display and 17.3-inch display are FHD IPS with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 and up to 144-Hz. Optional G-Sync and Dolby Vision.
One that really differentiates the Lenovo Legion 5i and the Legion 5 is that the former includes 10th Generation H-series, with its models offering i5 and i7 options. No matter how hard these processors work, the Lenovo Legion 5i is able to stay cool with the Coldfront 2.0 system. This is designed to dissipate heat from the CPU through a dual-channel thermal mechanism. There is also Dual Burn and Q Control 3.0. This combination of technology allows users to turn on the afterburners on the GPU / CPU to give an extra boost of performance.
There is ample storage as there is an M.2 PCIe SSD with a capacity of up to 1TB M.2, as well as SATA and HDD bay cables for expandability. Some models can come with dual drive configurations already built-in, with both a 1TB HDD and 1TB SSD. These laptops can be equipped with up to a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB) graphics card.
Lenovo Legion 5i Keyboard and Memory
The “TrueStrike” keyboard on the Lenovo Legion 5i is a specially-made, ergonomic keyboard that includes large arrow keys, 1.5-mm key travel, full-sized keys, switches for 100% anti-ghosting, and a numeric pad. The white backlighting provides visibility in any room. There is optional 4-zone RGB lighting. The memory options include 8GB DDR4 2933-MHz or 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4 2933-MHz depending on the configuration build the user chooses.
“Lenovo Vantage” is a convenient, intuitive feature that offers various performance modes for favorite games and apps to calibrate automatically, and overclocks GPUs / CPUs, downshifts to Quiet Mode to preserve battery life, and so forth.
Anybody who wants a new gaming laptop that isn’t overly expensive might really want to consider the Lenovo Legion 5i. Regardless of which model, it’ll offer good, seamless performance.