Lenovo Legion 5 A budget-friendly gaming laptop with AMD Ryzen 5 4600H
Lenovo has introduced the Legion 5 gaming laptop in India last year with AMD Ryzen 5 4600H processor which offers a very good gaming performance but in 2020 it launched with a sub-Rs 1 lakh gaming laptop price tag. Is the Lenovo Legion 5 AMD then worth it?
Lenovo already sells the Gaming 3i, Legion 5i, and Legion 7i, which are all powered by the 10th-gen Intel mobile processors. With the launch of the new models, Lenovo now has an AMD Ryzen-powered option for gamers. It is recently featured as one of the best affordable gaming laptops that you could buy this year. As of now, Lenovo is only offering the base variant of the Legion 5 in India that includes the Ryzen 5 4600H processor along with NVIDIA GTX 1650 as well as a 1650Ti variant (which is most out of stock).
The Legion 5 is priced at ₹67,990 ($935) although the price is listed as ₹70,990 ($980) on the official Lenovo India website for the Phantom Black color option. This is the best affordable price range to buy a beast like this on papers, there isn’t compromise on performance and the price tag of Rs 67,990 makes the entire package look reasonable. The Legion 5 follows the same design language as we saw on the Legion 7i, but it doesn’t come with the flashy RGB lighting instead it comes with a white backlit. Lenovo is also offering a one-year free Premium Care and one-year Accidental Damage Protection for Legion 5 at ₹3,900.
The laptop is powered by the AMD Ryzen 5 4600H processor, which is a 6 core, 12 thread CPU that is based on the Zen 2 architecture. For the GPU, it offers up to a GTX 1650, along with the option of a 15.6-inch 1080p 120Hz display that has slim bezels. It comes equipped with the backlit Legion TrueStrike keyboard and Lenovo Legion Coldfront 2.0. Battery life is rated at 8 hours and it supports Rapid Charge Pro for fast charging.
Its specifications are as follows:
· AMD Ryzen 5 4600H Mobile Processor with 6 cores
· Up to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 4GB DDR6
· 256GB SSD M.2 2280 PCIe 3.0×4 NVMe + 1TB HDD 5400rpm
· Windows 10 Home OS
· Battery life with (up to 8 hours) using technologies like Hybrid Mode by Lenovo Vantage
· Lenovo Legion Coldfront 2.0 thermal management
· Lenovo Legion TrueStrike keyboard
· 15.6” IPS 1080p display — with 120Hz refresh rate
· Built-in HD webcam (720p)
· 2 x 2W Harman Kardon speaker system, Dolby Atmos headphone support
· Manual mode switching via Lenovo Q-Control 3.0
· Fastest connectivity with 802.11AX (2 x 2), Bluetooth 5.0
· Dimensions: 363mm x 259mm x 22–24mm
· Weight: Starting at 2.3 Kgs
The port selection on this laptop is generous and I really like how they placed most of the connectors at the back:
Left
· USB 3.1 Gen1 Type-A (always-on)
· 3.5mm Audio combo jack
Right
· USB 3.1 Gen1 Type-A
Back
· Gigabit ethernet
· USB 3.1 Gen1 Type-C (DisplayPort)
· 2x USB 3.1 Gen1 Type-A
· HDMI 2.0
· Charging
Performance
Synthetic Benchmark
Unsurprisingly, the Ryzen 5 4600H triumphs when it comes to the multi-core performance against Intel Core i7–10750H. Intel still holds onto stronger single-core performance, the GPU performance comparison is not a head-to-head comparison but more like a showcase of the score difference between different GTX 16 series GPU on laptops. In CPU Centric tasks, the Ryzen 5 4600H processor can put up a good show in both Blender and Cinebench R20 — with scores of 3393 points in multicore performance and 455 points in single-core performance.
Here is a gaming comparison between Legion 5 vs MSI GF63 10SCXR
Pros:
- Outstanding build quality
- Clean design
- Good IO selection & placement
- Excellent keyboard
- Excellent Performance
- Excellent cooling
- Quiet fans
- Good battery life
Cons:
- OK display (not terrible, not impressive)
- Subpar customization in Lenovo software
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