Lenovo launches new 15-inch gaming laptop with AMD Strix Halo

[Redaktion]

Lenovo has unveiled a new 15-inch gaming laptop backed by AMD Strix Halo processors. Featuring AMD's powerful Radeon 8060S iGPU, the new laptop also includes an OLED display and full-sized arrow keys inside a body weighing about the same as a MacBook Air 15. Lenovo has confirmed availability for the new Legion 7a, too.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-launches-new-15-inch-gaming-laptop-with-AMD-Strix-Halo.1238894.0.html

[opckieran]

Just too expensive. They really should start this around $1600, not closer to $2400 (outside of having 128GB of RAM). Strix Halo just isn't growing AMD's market share, and it'll stay that way while it remains sky-high in price.

[Leks]

Can we get details on storage configuration asap? Two full size 2280s would put this into its own niche

[I don't think so]

This would have been nice when Strix Halo and its RDNA3.5 iGPU architecture was fresh. Now RDNA4 exists and can finally do proper hardware ML-based upscaling. Strix Halo' RDNA3.5 can't do that. Not sure I'd buy any new RDNA3.5 hardware anymore. For AI / LLM inferencing and fitting the bigger/smarter LLMs, Strix Halo' 128 GB are good and required, if this laptop supports 128 GB RAM, that is.

Again, think about it: This is a gaming laptop that can't to DLSS-like quality upscaling (only RDNA4 architecture GPUs can do this and they exist only as dedicated GPU cards).

@opckieran, indeed.

[About time]

I'm not surprised. It is the AMD-way to charge 5% less than Nvidia. It's just $100 less than some RTX 5060 laptops.

But at this price range you can get a ThinkPad with Panther Lake with longer battery life, and not that much of a performance drop (when gaming on battery).

This does look like it has a fairly robust cooling solution though. Just looking at its weight and size of the ventilation grill.

@I don't think so, I guess you could install steamOS on this thing if you really want better upscaling as they've made significant improvements there to RT performance in recent Linux patches.

[Perf/watt >> Upscaling]

It's kind of interesting how many OEMs are advertising quiet @ 22 dB operation this year for their new laptops. I wonder what has changed.

Strix Halo just isn't growing AMD's market share, and it'll stay that way while it remains sky-high in price.

It'll have like 10 in stock and then sell out for months just like their z2 extreme handhelds. AMDs marketing dept will call it a resounding success. Their focus and bread & butter will continue to be serving the server class and semi-custom silicon business (aka Sony/Samsung, etc).

I don't expect Intel's availability to be great either but at least with them, you know in 8-9 months, by the end of the year they will eventually ramp up the volume...