Lenovo Legion 5 Pro Full Indepth Review

 Lenovo Legion 5 Pro

Lenovo Legion 5 Pro

Pros:

1. Probably the best display  in the  segment.
2. The webcam have manual shutter.
3. Latest connectivity features.
4. Impressive performance.

Cons:

1. Speakers are not so great.
2. Bit on the heavier side. 
3. No external GPU support.
4. No fingerprint-scanner or face unlock.

Specifications:

1. Ram - 16GB/32GB

2. Processor  - AMD Ryzen 7 5800H(8-core & 16-thread)
3. Storage - 1 TB SSD(Upgradable upto 2TB)
4. Graphics - Nvidia RTX 3060/ Nvidia RTX 3070.

Exterior Overview:

The laptop is completely made up of aluminium. There is no such creaking or flexing in any  portion. The build quality is impressive. The design is on the minimalist side with just a few fancy touches which certainly don't look overdone. The lid also houses a Y-shaped RGB light which  can be accessed using (Fn+L) button. 

Front-View

The base is also finished in aluminium and same solid build is continued. The rear houses a rubber  padding and also air vents for better air intake. The speakers are also down-firing and are decent enough in both clarity and loudness. There is a buldge which continues after the screen which houses the exhausts along with on both sides. The extended portion also houses the ports. 

Rear-View

Ports Available:

The ports selection is decent enough.

Left Side:

1. USB Type-c (3.2) x1
2. Headphone jack

Right Side:

1. USB Type-a x1
2. Camera shutter button

Rear Side:

1. Ethernet Port
2. USB Type-c (3.2) x1
3. USB  Type-a x3
4. HDMI x1

5. Power Input

Ports Available

Interior Overview:

The  same design language is again continued in the interior of the device. The device can be opened with just one hand which proves it's great weight distribution. As soon as the lid is opened, we are greeted with a 16-inch WQHD screen with 16:10 aspect ratio. The bezels are also very minimum. On the top houses the web-camera which is a 720p one and performs decently and also have manual shutter which goes in it's way.  

Interior-View

Coming to the bottom half we have a full-sized keyboard with backlight enabled. The typing experience of the keyboard is quite good. The trackpad is also large enough and also supports all windows 10 gestures and overall pretty good to use. There is a logo placed at the bottom left corner again adding up to the design language. There is not no flex or creaking and feels solid.

Display & Software:

The device is fitted with a  40.64cm(16") WQHD(2560x1600) ,IPS panel which is aligned in a 16:10 aspect ratio. It is an anti-glare display which have 100% sRGB(Factory calibrated) , Dolby Vision HDR, Free-sync, G-sync and DC Dinning enabled. The display also have a refresh rate of 165Hz. The display can also get upto 500nits which is  sufficient for outdoor usage. Overall it has got one of the best displays in the market.

 

The device comes with windows 10 Home 64-bit along with Ms Office for lifetime. The machine comes with various modes which enhance the gaming performance and can handle heavy apps and softwares  smoothly. The only downside is the maximum performance is only achieved while plugged in. It is also equiped with wifi-6 and bluetooth-5.1 for better connectivity. The laptop packs a 80 Wh battery which delivers almost 3-5 hour battery depending upon the usage. It also have a 300Watt massive charger which tops up the battery pretty fast, 50% juice is restored within 30 minutes only which is impressive.   

Performance:

The laptop is fitted with AMD Ryzen 7 5800H processor which have 8-cores and 16-threads with a Base Clock Speed of -3.20Ghz and a Boost Clock speed of -4.40GHz. The processor can also store 4MB of L2 cache/16MB of L3 cache. For the persons who don't have a lot of technical knowledge, in short this is a very powerful & capable processor. It also have NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060/3070 GDDR6 dedicated graphics card and combined it performs like a monster. 
We have run a few bench mark tests and the  results are :
1. Geekbench5-(SingleCore-1411 & MultiCore-7135)
2. Cinebench R20-(4620 points)
3. PCMark-(7025 points)
4. 3DMark-(CPU score-8984 & Graphics Score-10,999)
The above scores are evident about the performance of the laptop.
But what about the actual real-world performance, we ran heavy softwares like adobe premier pro, Da Vinci which ran smoothly without any hiccups or frame-drops. Along with these we also played games like Call Of Duty, BGMI and it just flew in the games.  The laptop don't usually get over-heated but yes get a bit worm which is normal.   

Verdict

The laptop comes in two variants the only difference is RAM and Graphics performance. 
1. The Base variant comes with RAM-16GB and NVIDIA GeForce 3060 GDDR6 at
     Rs 1,39,999
2. The Top variant is equiped with 32GB of RAM and NVIDIA GeForce 3070 GDDR6      at Rs 1,59,999   
For most users the base variant is more than enough but for  extreme high performance the top  model is certainly the better choice. This is a all round device which can be used for professional gamers as well as  for professional level of photo or video editing thanks to the excellent screen. I would highly recommend the laptop because it can deliver performance close to a PC a, and in this time when there is a real shortage of good products this is highly recommended. There will be no regret just go for it if your budget permits. 

  

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