Lenovo Legion 7 16IAX10 review: Formidable Razer Blade 16 competitor

[Redaktion]

The Legion 7 16IAX10 is one of the lightest 16-inch gaming laptops on the market shipping with Arrow Lake-HX processor options. Performance is impressive for the weight, but can the fans and cooling solution keep up when gaming?

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-Legion-7-16IAX10-review-Formidable-Razer-Blade-16-competitor.1122108.0.html

[Hmm]

higher power consumption; shorter battery life

Each time I see a high power consumption mentioned, it's an Intel CPU, and this is correct, they are much less power efficient, especially when in utilized, which at first was obviously due to their bad node, but it may also be their bad CPU architecture (there was a case where the same chip was made on a modern TSMC node, and it still performed badly). Saw somewhere that an Intel CPU was consuming like 3x more Joules / energy for the same task than an AMD CPU. Cloud providers, where energy costs really matter, know this, and, yeah..

8 GB VRAM

2349 bucks for only 8GB VRAM and a 5060 Laptop? Yeah, no. Waiting for 2026' Refresh, which will use 3GB GDDR7 chips, instead of the current 2GB ones and give the highly needed +50% VRAM density increase.

There are unfortunately no RTX 5070 Ti options.

Which means there won't be a 24GB VRAM option available, when the 3GB dense GDDR7 chips become available.

The display looks good.

[Toggler]

I have this laptop on the Intel 275 HX, 5070, OLED 240 Hz option.

Battery life is not great but I get 6h with similar use as the notebookcheck test, maybe they missed something?

You need to compare this to a 9955 HX laptop for fairness, and you will find battery life to be worse for AMD (check Jarrod Tech YouTube reviews).

CPU power is amazing, overkill really, a H class CPU (Intel or AMD) is more than enough and will give you plenty of battery life.

The OLED is amazing. Best screen I ever had.

The 5070 on this achieves a very high score (for a 5070) but only 8GB as mentioned.

It is fantastic as a "creator" machine, or anyone who needs lot of power in a portable package with a 16 inch screen.

But if you're a gamer that prefers power to portability, you can spend less and get the MSI Vector HX with the 5070 Ti, or slightly more and get the one with the 5080.

[Wait for 3GB densities]

But if you're a gamer that prefers power to portability, you can spend less and get the MSI Vector HX with the 5070 Ti, or slightly more and get the one with the 5080.

Or, since 16 GB VRAM is already pushing it, wait until next year's Refresh when the 3 GB dense GDDR7 chips will be used, instead of the current 2 GB per chips ones. The 5090 Laptop (has 24GB VRAM) is a 256-bit 5080 chip in disguise (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_RTX_50_series#Mobile), but uses 3 GB and so it gets the +50% VRAM increase over a 5080.