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Lenovo Legion 5 Pro 16 review: A gaming laptop with a bright 165-Hz display

Started by Redaktion, August 13, 2021, 01:45:28

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Redaktion

If you open the Legion 5 Pro gaming laptop, you will find a hidden message that indicates that Lenovo probably had the goal of creating a technological marvel here. However, despite the Ryzen 7 and RTX 3070, the designers didn't quite succeed in giving justice to the example from the comics.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-Legion-5-Pro-16-review-A-gaming-laptop-with-a-bright-165-Hz-display.554931.0.html


Hanzzz

This laptop and Legion 7 tested by you recently both have exactly the same screen model. But somehow you got very different results. Extreme differences in brightness, response time and what is the most weird is that one screen has PWM but the other does not.

This is ridiculous.

Hanzzz

This laptop and Legion 7 tested by you recently both have exactly the same SSD model.

How is it possible that here it is half slower? This is ridiculous.

Dalibor

I do not get this review. I've read and watched multiple reviews and all put the Legion 5 5800H/3070 above the other laptops in game perforamnce.
Its got a max TDP 3070 and in this review it is slower then all other laptops?!

Was the review unit limited in some way? Was optimus disabled and the output went through the internal graphics chip?

Sasha

Can somebody explain why the display specification from Lenovo says "DC dimmer" but the test shows a constant use of PWM with 14700 Hz frequency?
I thought DC dimming meant that PWM is not used?

Hanzzz

Here is the same panel, the same part number
laptopmedia.com/review/lenovo-legion-5-pro-16/
no PWM

What is going on?

NikoB

Quote from: Hanzzz on August 13, 2021, 15:29:39
Here is the same panel, the same part number
laptopmedia.com/review/lenovo-legion-5-pro-16/
no PWM

What is going on?
Laptopmedia lie.

All lcd panels in real world have programmable PWM unit

Quote from: Sasha on August 13, 2021, 15:18:54
Can somebody explain why the display specification from Lenovo says "DC dimmer" but the test shows a constant use of PWM with 14700 Hz frequency?
I thought DC dimming meant that PWM is not used?
All panel in world use PWM brightness control unit. The frequency is adjusted at the factory according to the decision of the R&D department.

Operating frequencies are usually chosen for mercantile reasons. The more often the LED is on, the faster they dim and fail. In addition, the more difficult it is to control the brightness over a wide range (on high frequencies). Thus, manufacturers often program very low frequencies in order to increase the lifetime of the panels.

And on AMOLED, low frequencies (which is generally hidden(hushed up) by this amoral industry, so that there is no public scandal about harm to the eyes, especially of children) is a necessary measure. At a high frequency (diods work more often on than off), OLED burns out many times faster or there is a rapid color imbalance. That is why you will never find an AMOLED panel with frequencies higher than 300Hz, in practice it is 100-200Hz. For example, in Apple iphones, it generally comes to shame with 61Hz(!), which people with a fast nervous system see and will suffer greatly from this... There is no global scandal with low-frequency PWM in the world for the simple reason that the majority of the world's population has an extremely inhibitory nervous system and for this reason, the harm caused to the eyes and the human nervous system for such people is minimal and accumulates for a long time (like about harm from cigarettes or low, but increased radiation level).

Tobacco companies have previously assured that there is no harm from smoking. Now cellular immoral  manufacturers (while blatantly violating, as it turned out, the limit tolerances for real SAR radiation, similar to the immoral Volkswagen with "dieselgate" exhausts), they do the same and assure that there is no harm to people (although in all decent user manuals it is written in black and white that a cell phone should keep at least 1.5-2cm to the tissues of the body, which, 99.9% of the population regularly violates this requirement, thereby gradually causing irreparable harm to their health). And in the same way, manufacturers of panels for monitors and laptop/smartphone, those that allow low frequencies during development, in fact, deliberately and immorally destroy the health of the world's population, causing irreparable slow harm, especially to the eyes and nervous system of young people...

p.s.аnd DC dimming is based on narrowing the dynamic range of liquid crystals, i.e. affects picture quality and color depth.

I am personally very disappointed with the quality of the Legion 5 Pro series panels. Not only is 2560x1600 a crazy resolution for a gaming laptop, much better when set to 4k / 120Hz (as HP now puts in the new Omen 2021), which is 100% integer compatible with 1920x1080, i.e. at low fps, you can play in 1920x1080 without losing the sharpness of the picture, as it will be at 2560x1600-> 1920x1200, so also the native contrast for this series with an increased price is shameful only 1000: 1 with a small, although at least 2000: 1 was expected, as in smartphones with IPS.

Most people sitting behind them for hours are much more important than a high native contrast in text and surfing, and not 500 nits of brightness, which is absolutely not needed indoors, and 99% of those who bought it will not use it intensively on the street, besides, the reviewers of this site set it low a point for the durability of the case, which puts an end to using this notebook outdoors in a casual environment. The score must be at least 92% for this to be possible. The motherboard, unlike the L + series in the Thinkpad, is not mechanically reinforced inside. There is only one point in the aluminum case in this series - marketing considerations, because they killed the ability to remove heat from the entire case by making plastic overlays for the keyboard.

And the keyboard has a flaw - the Fx function keys are greatly narrowed in height, which does not make it possible to comfortably use them in touch typing.

Moreover, the models themselves on the 5800H (on the 5600 are slightly better) are now completely meaningless - the Intel 11800H has the same performance, but unlike the poor AMD solutions, it has on board Thunderbolt 4.0 (USB4.0) 2 ports in the Legion Pro series and much more fast memory controller. Therefore, I do not recommend buying outdated AMD solutions if you have Intel with the i7 11800h that are close in price.

NikoB

This review also completely ignored the topic of DCI-P3 color space coverage (why this measurement was not carried out, why?) аnd Rec.2020, it are strictly required for HDR/DV. Given that the minimum brightness required by DV is 1000 nits according to the specification...

Most importantly, if the color coverage exceeds 100% sRGB, it will oversaturate the colors when displaying regular content in sRGB and Rec. 709. And most software, including Windows of all versions, do not know how to solve this problem at the root in practice.

And here, unlike Intel, AMD has a clear advantage, because for many years they have a built-in sRGB autocalibrator(enabled by one checkmark in the settings) for the EDID panel in their video cards and in the Adrenaline software and the EDID accuracy depends on the quality of the calibration at the factory.

And here again we get a complete failure in the review - how toxic colors will the L5Pro panels have in the content and software expected  sRGB/Rec.709 by default and who cannot use the Windows/Linux color management system? Not a word about this, as if on purpose ...

NikoB

Also in this review, as always in all, the problems of connecting monitors via usb-c are completely ignored. How many lines in the connector are actually displayed by the manufacturer for display port signals? 2 or full 4? Whether DP1.4 is fully supported depends on this (by the way, another utter disgrace of the entire IT industry for 2 years already, since DP2.0 was introduced in the final version almost 2 years ago, but it is not even in the discrete from NVidia! i.e. connecting an 8k monitor to this laptop will not work in lossless signal quality, which only DP2.0 provides, but not HDMI 2.1)

Again, not a word is said about HDMI 2.1, there are no tests, what is the real bandwidth of the L5Pro - full 48Gbps or is it quietly cut off by NVidia and Lenovo?

There is no testing of the quality of audio output through headphones (at least in standard 32 Ohms). This is ridiculous.

Jesse V Brown

The problem with the gaming test is that their main test is on The Witcher 3, which aggressively favors intel. All of their Ryzen laptops underperformed, especially at low settings, where the cpu is the bottleneck. Check out Final Fantasy 15 or Far Cry 5, the Legion 5 pro is the best 3070 laptop result at 1440p. Most games have the Legion 5 pro right at the front of the pack along with the XMG Neo 15, but both fall behind most intel laptops on The Witcher 3.


Vigo

Legion 5 Pro series panels has internal resolution 3840 x 2400 pixels.

1) install latest NVidia driver (not from Lenovo)
2) install driver from this site: drivers.softpedia.com/get/MONITOR/LG/LG-Ultra-HD-4K-Monitor-Driver-1-0.shtml

Enjoy gaming 4k



Quote from: NikoB on August 15, 2021, 12:53:59
Quote from: Hanzzz on August 13, 2021, 15:29:39
Here is the same panel, the same part number
laptopmedia.com/review/lenovo-legion-5-pro-16/
no PWM

What is going on?
Laptopmedia lie.

All lcd panels in real world have programmable PWM unit

Quote from: Sasha on August 13, 2021, 15:18:54
Can somebody explain why the display specification from Lenovo says "DC dimmer" but the test shows a constant use of PWM with 14700 Hz frequency?
I thought DC dimming meant that PWM is not used?
All panel in world use PWM brightness control unit. The frequency is adjusted at the factory according to the decision of the R&D department.

Operating frequencies are usually chosen for mercantile reasons. The more often the LED is on, the faster they dim and fail. In addition, the more difficult it is to control the brightness over a wide range (on high frequencies). Thus, manufacturers often program very low frequencies in order to increase the lifetime of the panels.

And on AMOLED, low frequencies (which is generally hidden(hushed up) by this amoral industry, so that there is no public scandal about harm to the eyes, especially of children) is a necessary measure. At a high frequency (diods work more often on than off), OLED burns out many times faster or there is a rapid color imbalance. That is why you will never find an AMOLED panel with frequencies higher than 300Hz, in practice it is 100-200Hz. For example, in Apple iphones, it generally comes to shame with 61Hz(!), which people with a fast nervous system see and will suffer greatly from this... There is no global scandal with low-frequency PWM in the world for the simple reason that the majority of the world's population has an extremely inhibitory nervous system and for this reason, the harm caused to the eyes and the human nervous system for such people is minimal and accumulates for a long time (like about harm from cigarettes or low, but increased radiation level).

Tobacco companies have previously assured that there is no harm from smoking. Now cellular immoral  manufacturers (while blatantly violating, as it turned out, the limit tolerances for real SAR radiation, similar to the immoral Volkswagen with "dieselgate" exhausts), they do the same and assure that there is no harm to people (although in all decent user manuals it is written in black and white that a cell phone should keep at least 1.5-2cm to the tissues of the body, which, 99.9% of the population regularly violates this requirement, thereby gradually causing irreparable harm to their health). And in the same way, manufacturers of panels for monitors and laptop/smartphone, those that allow low frequencies during development, in fact, deliberately and immorally destroy the health of the world's population, causing irreparable slow harm, especially to the eyes and nervous system of young people...

p.s.аnd DC dimming is based on narrowing the dynamic range of liquid crystals, i.e. affects picture quality and color depth.

I am personally very disappointed with the quality of the Legion 5 Pro series panels. Not only is 2560x1600 a crazy resolution for a gaming laptop, much better when set to 4k / 120Hz (as HP now puts in the new Omen 2021), which is 100% integer compatible with 1920x1080, i.e. at low fps, you can play in 1920x1080 without losing the sharpness of the picture, as it will be at 2560x1600-> 1920x1200, so also the native contrast for this series with an increased price is shameful only 1000: 1 with a small, although at least 2000: 1 was expected, as in smartphones with IPS.

Most people sitting behind them for hours are much more important than a high native contrast in text and surfing, and not 500 nits of brightness, which is absolutely not needed indoors, and 99% of those who bought it will not use it intensively on the street, besides, the reviewers of this site set it low a point for the durability of the case, which puts an end to using this notebook outdoors in a casual environment. The score must be at least 92% for this to be possible. The motherboard, unlike the L + series in the Thinkpad, is not mechanically reinforced inside. There is only one point in the aluminum case in this series - marketing considerations, because they killed the ability to remove heat from the entire case by making plastic overlays for the keyboard.

And the keyboard has a flaw - the Fx function keys are greatly narrowed in height, which does not make it possible to comfortably use them in touch typing.

Moreover, the models themselves on the 5800H (on the 5600 are slightly better) are now completely meaningless - the Intel 11800H has the same performance, but unlike the poor AMD solutions, it has on board Thunderbolt 4.0 (USB4.0) 2 ports in the Legion Pro series and much more fast memory controller. Therefore, I do not recommend buying outdated AMD solutions if you have Intel with the i7 11800h that are close in price.

dave8


Sunkar

Installing X-Rite Color Assistent and using it's ICC profiles fixes the problem with yellow tint.

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