The Legion 5 series is Lenovo's most popular gaming laptop. It's the least expensive of the Legion models, but it still features premium build quality (including an anodized aluminum lid) and weighs in at around 4.5 pounds. The gorgeous 15" OLED display has a 2.5K 189ppi resolution, 165Hz refresh rate, HDR 1000 True Black certification, and 100% DCI-P3 color range. The rest of the specs include an Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX CPU, RTX 5070 GPU, 16GB of DDR5-5600MHz RAM and a 1TB SSD. The Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX has a max turbo frequency of 5.1GHz with 16 total cores. It's a good processor for gaming and you won't notice a performance improvement upgrading to a Core Ultra 9.
The GeForce RTX 5070 will run most games smoothly
The RTX 5070 is a full powered (unthrottled) mobile model with 115W TGP and performs about 5%-10% better than the RTX 4070 that it replaces. It also supports DLSS 4.5 and multi-frame generation which widens the performance gap in games that support it. This laptop will able to play most games smoothly even on the enhanced 2.5K resolution, although extremely high demand games like Cyberpunk 2077 will require some graphics settings adjustment to get there.
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