Rise of the Tomb Raider, set to its most demanding settings with ray tracing enabled, scored 99fps at native resolution, while the lowest score I got from Wolfenstein: Youngblood was 105fps and that was with ray tracing on, DLSS off and running maximum detail levels at 2,560 x 1,660. Drop the resolution down to FHD and the frame rate jumps to 141fps. The Legion 7 Gen 7 produced middling scores with its AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX CPU, not really competing with the Legion 7i Gen 7 but matching up with the Gigabyte Aero 16 and easily surpassing the underperforming Razer. It did, however, generally outperform the Corsair’s HS-class chip.

AMD’s processor is fine, but this is another component that’s starting to show its age. Its single- and multi-core Geekbench results of 1360 and 7141 are decent, and they’re good enough to handle multi-tasking and mainstream content-creation tasks. On Shadow of the Tomb Raider (highest settings, 1080p), the Legion 7 hit 97 frames per second during the benchmark at native resolution. This beats out the Alienware x17 and the Razer Blade 15 ’s 77 and 80 fps . However, the MSI GE76 Raider outperformed the Legion 7 at 106 fps. At its native 2560 x 1600, the Legion benchmarked at 71 fps, more than Razer Blade 15’s 54 fps at 1440p. The Legion is available with a beefier Ryzen 9 5900HX CPU, but that chip still can’t match those newer Intel parts and the laptop is more expensive when you make that upgrade – so it’s poorer value when compared to the x15 and Asus. FHD (1920 x 1080), IPS, anti-glare, 240Hz, < 1ms response time, 100% sRGB, 500 nits, VESA DisplayHDR 400-certified, Dolby Vision™-enabled.Our first test is UL's PCMark 10, which simulates a variety of real-world productivity and office workflows to measure overall system performance and also includes a storage subtest for the primary drive. The Legion 7 Gen 7 finished in the upper end of the graph in the main test, though it didn’t catch the Legion 7i Gen 7. There’s little between the RTX 3080 and the Asus’ RTX 3070 Ti. Lenovo Legion 7’s 3D Mark Time Spy result of 10,436 rubbed shoulders with the RTX 3070 Ti’s score of 10,389. At first, I was surprised by how loud the speakers were. When I began listening to “Omar’s Coming” by Westside Gunn, I noticed how muffled the song was. Then, upon further inspection, I lifted the laptop and realized there were two smaller speakers underneath. Once I lifted it off the surface, Immediately heard the extra “oomph” they provided. The Lenovo Legion 7 doesn’t look that exciting when you haul the machine from the box. Boot the notebook and it comes to life, with a ring of customizable RGB LEDs around the laptop’s base, in the air vents and in the lid’s Legion logo.

Outside of the usual preinstalled apps like TikTok and Spotify, the handiest app is Lenovo Vantage Vantage has multiple settings to customize the laptop, including different performance modes depending on if you want silence or full-blown power. We also informally tested the Legion 7 Gen 7 at its native 2,560 by 1,600-pixel native screen resolution, where it produced 87 frames per second (fps) in F1 2021 (Ultra settings, AMD FSR enabled) and 78fps in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (Ultra settings), respective drops of 16% and 32% from the 1080p averages of 104fps and 115fps. The Lenovo Legion 7 lasted for an hour and fifteen minutes during a gaming benchmark, which is an entirely ordinary result for a gaming notebook.

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The AMD-powered Lenovo Legion 7 is a top-notch gaming laptop for enthusiasts who want next-generation gaming in a mobile form factor. The RGB-powered laptop screams gaming in every way through its well-thought-out design, from the surrounding lights and keycaps to its well-placed vents and speakers. If you’re wanting to shell out a little more, you can upgrade from our specs to versions of the Lenovo Legion 7 with up to 32GB of RAM, up to 2TB of SSD storage and an AMD Ryzen 9 5900H CPU. Our final productivity test is Puget Systems' PugetBench for Photoshop, which uses the Creative Cloud Version 22 of Adobe's famous image editor to rate a PC's performance for content creation and multimedia applications. It's an automated extension that executes a variety of general and GPU-accelerated Photoshop tasks ranging from opening, rotating, resizing, and saving an image to applying masks, gradient fills, and filters. Our final productivity test is Puget Systems' PugetBench for Photoshop, which uses the Creative Cloud version 22 of Adobe's famous image editor to rate a PC's performance for content creation and multimedia applications. It's an automated extension that executes a variety of general and GPU-accelerated Photoshop tasks ranging from opening, rotating, resizing, and saving an image to applying masks, gradient fills, and filters.

Lenovo has been a bit of a latecomer to the world of gaming laptops, and the Legion 7 is the firm’s attempt to gain ground against big players like Asus and Alienware. We also ran our standard stress test: 15 runs of the Metro Exodus benchmark on ultra and RTX settings. The Legion hit a consistent 73 frames per second. The GPU fluctuated around 675 MHz at 46 degrees Celsius (114 Fahrenheit.). The CPU hit an average of 3.35GHz at 76 degrees Celsius (165.2 degrees Fahrenheit). Productivity Performance on the Lenovo Legion 7

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The 16in 2,560 x 1,660 IPS panel is a joy to look at. Bright and pin-sharp, it’s also impressively colour accurate and abundantly colourful. Brightness maxes out at a very respectable 490cd/m², while the contrast ratio is a solid 1,208:1. The Legion tied with the Raider at 77 fps running Red Dead Redemption 2 at medium settings in 1080p, behind the Alienware x17’s 81 fps. At 2560 x 1600, however, the Legion stands tall at 56 fps, ahead of the Razer Blade 15’s 44 fps at 1440p. For Windows PCs, we run both synthetic and real-world gaming tests. The former includes two DirectX 12 gaming simulations from UL's 3DMark, Night Raid (more modest, suitable for systems with integrated graphics) and Time Spy (more demanding, suitable for gaming rigs with discrete GPUs). Also looped into that group is the cross-platform GPU benchmark GFXBench 5, which we use to gauge OpenGL performance. Certain keys have their own hotkey functions when pressing Fn, showing their secondary uses. For instance, the Fn + Q key allows you to change performance presets from Auto, Quiet, and Performance (if connected to power.) There’s also an Fn + R key function that changes the display setting from the standard 165Hz to 60Hz, which comes in handy when trying to conserve power. My initial battery rundown test drained the Legion 7’s 78Wh cell in just 3hrs 25mins, which is absolutely dire. However, I then realised that the integrated AMD Vega GPU was turned off and with it Nvidia’s Optimus graphics switching system.