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Summary

Purchase Decision Videos

• This is an easy recommendation from me especially for students.
• Good ports, comfortable keyboard, RAM and SSD upgrade options, GPU good and having the AMD CPU means good battery life for a gaming laptop.
• The choice of OLED or IPS means those who are affected by PWM dimming on OLEDs still have the choice of IPS display.
• OLED panel is excellent if you can use it in places without reflections.
• CPU performs close to a 13700H and nowhere close to a 14700HX
• Those who are comparing this with Intel, I would say, better to have a consistent powerformance without crashes or doubts about long term viability of the CPU instead of chasing high perforance from Intel counterparts.
  I myself have a 14700HX with PTM isntalled and still I run it with external cooler, higher fan curves and undervolting and temperature limits just so that it doesn't keep hitting 100°C.

Caution: VVI If you're buying

• If choosing OLED, be sure to check you're not affected by PWM Dimming first. If chosing IPS, ignore this.:
  OLED so PWM under 44% brightness. Check you are not affected by PWM dimming.
  There are some people who are effected by PWM(or very fast flickering lights) and have a lot of headaches. It's a small percentage of people and you should figure out if you're effected by this before getting this laptop.
  Note: The freqency for switching is very very high so most people might not notice it.
  The OLED Panel is very very glossy. So glossy that it can cause eye fatigue due to reflections. Make sure that your main usage places aren't full of reflections if going for OLED.
  OLED version is a thinner and lighter laptop and more metal on the body:
  Models with OLED panel: Aluminium (top), PC-ABS + 15% Talc (bottom)
  Models with IPS panel: PC-ABS + 15% Talc (top), PC-ABS + 15% Talc (bottom)
• Two vents so regular fan cleaning required. No need to remove the thermal module, just the fan blades with a brush is fine.
• CPU Runs hot in performance mode. Either apply a temperature or a wattage limit on the CPU by using custom mode and even tweaking fan curves, or just run in balanced mode if you see CPU hitting 100°C constantly.
  The CPU is quite efficient and doesn't require 80W of power at all as you will see below so it makes no sense to push it to such high wattages which makes it hit 100°C unlike an Intel CPU where the performance drop would be significant.
• There are good reasons to turn off DLSS so only check gaming benchmarks without that.
• Even though laptop says PD charging of upto 140W, that's only with special Lenovo Charger which is hard to get in many markets.
  For everyone else it's just 100W max from PD.
  Also, I have seen that such PD chargers don't work with gaming laptops unless they are sleeping which is no use to anyone really.

Pros/Cons

Pros

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 260 is a rebranded 8845HS which was itself a rebranded 7840HS which were excellent CPUs and even still are if there are laptops available with this CPU.
  • Stable performance over long time: Only 3% variability so within maring of error.
  • CPU perorms pretty well in all laptop modes because of being so efficient.
  • 66°C @ 25W during gaming .
  • 80°C @ 44W during CPU/GPU stress test.
  • 36°C idle CPU temperatures is excellent for a laptop CPU.
• GPU: 5060
  5060 laptop GPU 8GB VRAM: Fastest version of 5060 at 115W(90+25).
  • Completely stable performance under load in this laptop.
  • 7% slower than 5070. 9% over the fastest 4060 laptop GPU.
  • Just slightly behind the 5070 in the Razer Blade 14
  • Gaming performance is good in 1080p resolution.
  • 78°C @ 105W during gaming
  • 81°C @ 94W during combined CPU/GPU stress test.
• GPU: 5050
  • Both GPU and GPU memory temperatures are excellent and not reaching the thermal limit of 87 for GPU.
  • 111W@85°C GPU and 80°C for GPU Memory
• Battery
  80Whr:
  • 9.5hrs: 60% maximum SDR Brightness or 150nits WiFi @60Hz
  • 6.5hrs: 100% brightness WiFI @60Hz
  • 11.5hrs: Video Test
  • Only pulls in 11.3W at idle so expect long battery life.
  • 80% charge in ~50mins. 1.5hrs for 100%
  • 8.5hrs: 180nits SDR
• During gaming the laptop only uses 170W maximum power so a smaller charger might be enough. During stress tests though this goes upto 233W. Included 245W charger is more than enough.
• Laptop itself weight less than 2kgs now(1.9kg for OLED and 2.1kg for IPS)
• High System and Gaming Performance
• Long battery life due to the AMD CPU
• Relatively small size for a 15" laptop and fits in most bags easily
• Fan loud is reasonable on balanced and quiet mode
• OLED display:
  has accurate sRGB and DCI-P3 color profiles so excellent for color accurate works like video editing or photo editing professionally.
  is very good and bright and 165Hz and responsive also.
• Included SSDs are really good.

Neutral

Netural Good:
• Fan stays slient during normal operation
• Better air circulation than the previous Legion models which were also having just two vents output
• Good maintainance options
• Good full size keyboard
• Good connectivity with USB4: 40Gbps as compared to 5GBps normally.
• Good sturdy laptop. No creaking noise, strong feeling hinge.
• Wifi 7 Speeds are very good even though it's Mediatek.
• Upgradable RAM/SSD and access to Hardware Manual.
• Good touchpad as long as you stick to taps and double taps and not try to click the button.
• Lenovo provides it's own software to download accurate color profiles files which are very accurate.
• One handed open laptop.

Neutral Doesn't Matter:
• Fans get loud in performance mode(but aren't annoying) but still lower than other gaming laptops in this class.
• CPU 260 is the repackaged 8845HS which was itself a repackaged 7840HS which was and still is an excellent CPU.
• Aluminium for Lid and plastic for body
• USB4 port is connected to the iGPU so in rare cases when you have to plug laptop in a monitor but not a charger it will give you a better battery life.
• Included SSD is of good speeds in different markets.

Neutral Bad:
• No SD Card Reader
• Camera is meh, just usable
• Ports are all around the laptop so no clean setup like before where all major ports were in the back. In the back there is only power and HDMI.
• Bottom sides gets heated up during high performance workloads.

Cons

• CPU isn't the same as the 8845HS or the 7840HS so no performance improvement there, you just pay more becuase it's "new"
• The lack of four vents like before and Lenovo's aggressive CPU tuning hurt the CPU temperatures in long high workloads when pushed to the limits
• No Advanced Optimus so restart required when switching GPU modes.
• OLED: Glossy screen so hard to use in room with lights and outdoors and you will have to check if you are effected by PWM
• Below Average Speakers. You can use Nahimic app for boosting loudness but quality degrades significantly

Benchmarks

CPU

Cinebench 2024: Single: 106.5 Multi: 1000
Cinebench R23: Single: 1801 Multi: 177712
Cinebench R20: Single: 697 Multi: 6969
Cinebench R15: Single: 289 Multi: 2831
Geekbench 6.4: Single: 2683 Multi: 13349

GPU

5060

3DMark Time Spy Score:	12037 points
3DMark 11 Performance:	35012 points
3DMark Fire Strike Score:	29189 points
3DMark Steel Nomad Score:	2671 points
3DMark Steel Nomad Light Score:	12307 points
3DMark Steel Nomad Light Unlimited Score:	11971 points

5050

3DMark Time Spy Score:	10522 points (-13%)
3DMark Wildlife Extreme: 19544 points

Display Benchmarks

OLED

LEN151WQXGA tested with X-Rite i1Pro 3
Maximum: 515 cd/m² (Nits) Average: 494.9 cd/m² Minimum: 5.2 cd/m²
Brightness Distribution: 92 %
Center on Battery: 492 cd/m²
Contrast: ∞:1 (Black: 0 cd/m²)
ΔE ColorChecker Calman: 0.9 | ∀{0.5-29.43 Ø4.82}
ΔE Greyscale Calman: 1.2 | ∀{0.09-98 Ø5.1}
98.3% AdobeRGB 1998 (Argyll 3D)
100% sRGB (Argyll 3D)
99.9% Display P3 (Argyll 3D)
Gamma: 2.16
CCT: 6291 K

Gaming Benchmarks

Pictures

Benchmark Pictures

Important Outside Pictures

Laptop Internal Pictures

OLED Display Pictures

Laptop showoff

References

1. Product Specification Reference Lenovo: PSREF
2. https://download.lenovo.com/consumer/mobiles_pub/lenovo_legion_5i_hmm.pdf
3. https://psrefstuff.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/datasheet/Legion_5_15AHP10_Datasheet_EN.pdf
4. https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-best-mainstream-gamer-in-2025-Lenovo-Legion-5-15-Laptop-Review.1047975.0.html
5. https://laptopmedia.com/review/lenovo-legion-5-15-gen-10-review/
6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5zQTUhfuLU
7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBu4J1Y8-Go
8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snwA5eKsSg0