Audio is handled by two speakers placed on the bottom of this laptop, and firing through the grills on the angled laterals, which prevents them from being easily covered and muffled.

W (~6 h of use) – 60Hz, 1080p fullscreen video on Youtube in Edge, Quiet Mode, screen at 60%, Wi-Fi ON; We also run a custom Adobe Photoshop image-editing benchmark. Using an early 2018 release of the Creative Cloud version of Photoshop, we apply a series of 10 complex filters and effects to a standard JPEG test image, timing each operation and adding up the total. As with Handbrake, lower times are better here. The Photoshop test stresses the CPU, storage subsystem, and RAM, but it can also take advantage of most GPUs to speed up the process of applying filters, so systems with powerful graphics chips or cards may see a boost.Nvidia’s latest laptop graphics chips run at different power levels to deliver varying levels of performance and efficiency. The GeForce RTX 3070 inside the Legion runs at 130W, which is about as high as this chip can go. Elsewhere, it’s got the usual 8GB of memory and 5120 stream processors.

The CPU runs hot and is thermally throttled on the Performance mode, while the middle-ground Balance profile is a fair mix of CPU performance, average temperatures, and medium fan noise, but does sacrifice the performance in sustained CPU loads by 20-25%. That means you’ll have to go with the Performance mode for any serious work, and have to accept the high CPU temperatures. You could opt for some sort of stand or cooling pad to help the cooling, but that will most likely only translate into higher CPU power (and a slight boost in performance), but not lower temperatures. With the current power settings and cooling design, the CPU is always going to run at 95+ Celsius in sustained CPU loads on Performance mode, which is not ideal. There’s also the Silent mode to consider here, which keeps the fans at sub 35 dB in sustained loads, but this significantly limits both the CPU and GPU, so I wouldn’t recommend it for anything intensive. Gaming performance The Legion doesn’t make too much noise either – there’s fan noise present when you play games or push the hardware, but it’s not irritating or problematic. Temperatures were fine on the inside and outside, and there were no throttling issues. It’s just as good as the Asus and MSI here. Battery LifeMetro: Exodus (1080p): 132 fps (Low); 71 fps (Ultra, no ray tracing); 61 fps (ultra with ray tracing enabled) I’ve already reviewed the mid-tier i7 + RTX 3060 configuration of the Legion 5i Pro laptop in a previous article, so I’m not going over all the details again in here. If you’re interested in my thoughts on the design and ergonomics, typing experience, and screen options, you’ll find those covered in that article. The power profiles are Quiet, Balanced, and Performance, and you can select them from Vantage or switch between them with Fn+Q. Performance is only available with the laptop plugged into the wall. These profiles apply different power settings to the CPU/GPU and different fan profiles, as well as switch the color of the LED in the power button.