With the launch of Intel’s new 12th generation processors, Lenovo has also updated the Legion 5i Pro 2022, a noteworthy laptop for gamers. This is a high-end gaming laptop with a robust design and high specifications, ensuring users can smoothly play the most popular games on the market as well as handle the heaviest workloads.
A Design as Bold as a Race Car
The most impressive feature of the Legion 5i Pro 2022 is its modern exterior design. Right from the front, this laptop showcases its power through slanted cuts and the prominent new Legion logo. Overall, the machine’s silhouette resembles a high-performance race car, especially with its impressive air vent that looks like a jet engine propelling forward.
All the highly reasonable designs of the Legion series remain intact, with the main connectivity ports located at the back of the machine, making it convenient for plugging in power, LAN, or HDMI cables to external screens without clutter. The side edges are equipped with USB ports and a 3.5mm jack, allowing for easy connection of external hard drives or peripherals and headphones.
The Keyboard and Touchpad are Top-Notch
Inside, the Legion 5i Pro 2022 is equipped with a full-size keyboard of very high quality, nearly unmatched by any other gaming laptop in its segment. The typing experience is satisfying, with a comfortable key travel and good bounce, allowing gamers to take it anywhere without worrying about carrying a separate keyboard. Additionally, this keyboard features beautiful backlighting with diverse color options.
The touchpad has a moderate size, is responsive to multi-touch, and provides a smooth finger-gliding experience. When you’re not gaming or need to quickly operate, it performs very well.
A Sharp Display Suitable for Gaming and Work
The Legion 5i Pro 2022 features a 16-inch display with a resolution of 2560×1600 (2K) and an upgraded refresh rate of 240Hz from the previous version’s 165Hz, providing a sharp and bright image. Users will enjoy a very spacious and vivid display, with smooth movements even in high-speed action games.
For those who need a laptop that can handle both gaming and heavy tasks such as 3D modeling or video editing, notably content creators, they can rest assured as Lenovo has pre-calibrated the colors.
High Configuration, Powerful Performance
The version we tested of the Legion 5i Pro 2022 is the highest in the series, equipped with a 12th generation Intel Core i9-12900H processor, rated to be 40% faster than its predecessor, an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti graphics unit, 32GB DDR5 RAM, and a high-speed SSD. Therefore, the performance is truly impressive, easily comparable to desktop machines.
Let’s delve into some benchmark tests using software
First is 3DMark, which evaluates processing and graphics power with very high scores.
The scores on the PCMark10 software show excellent operational capability, especially in digital content creation with high marks:
Next is the Cinebench score, which highlights the powerful processing capability of the CPU on the Legion 5i Pro 2022 with an impressive score of 17,242.
These scores demonstrate the superior strength of the Intel Core i9-12900H processor. With a design combining performance with 6 high-performance cores and 8 energy-efficient cores, 20 processing threads, and a clock speed of 5.0GHz, we achieve impressive processing capability displayed on the Legion 5i Pro 2022. Users can be assured that this laptop will perform well with very resource-intensive games and 3D video editing software, thanks to its ability to automatically allocate application load to appropriate processing cores based on Intel Threat Director’s AI technology.
Next, we’ll test some popular games:
It can be seen that the Legion 5i Pro 2022 operates very smoothly with current games even at the highest settings and 2K resolution. Gamers can confidently explore every virtual world perfectly.
The Legion 5i Pro 2022 comes with a very high-power supply of up to 300W, sufficient to power the powerful configuration inside. Additionally, the ColdFront 4 cooling system works effectively, keeping the chips running cool. Users can use the Fn + Q shortcut to set the machine to run at the highest performance level for heavy tasks.
Overall, the Legion 5i Pro 2022 is truly a sensible choice for gamers as well as users needing high performance at this time. Its beautiful and reasonable design, along with powerful configuration, are the strengths of this laptop. The Legion 5i Pro 2022 is priced at approximately 34 million VND, along with “premium” service packages from Lenovo.