Lenovo – Legion 5 15″ Gaming Laptop – AMD Ryzen 7 5800H – NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti – 8GB Memory – 512GB SSD – Phantom Blue

I caught this gem while looking at gaming laptops and decided to take a closer look at it. I am glad I did. The Lenovo Legion 5 2021 model certainly does not disappoint. The overall design has slimmed down a bit from last years model. This year its outfitted with the new AMD Ryzen 7 5800H powerhouse CPU with 8 cores and 16 threads of processing power. Teamed up with 8GB of DDR4 3200mhz ram you are sure to crunch through the workloads easily. Add another 8GB and you are set! The laptop also has the new Nvidia RTX 3050TI Graphics card that provides excellent gaming, The GPU is teamed up with 4GB of GDDR6 Samsung memory for blistering gaming sessions. Round this all out with a gorgeous 165hz 100% SRGB IPS Panel; you are sure to enjoy many hours of gameplay with vibrant colors and silky smooth action. The surprise in all of this is the 512GB NVMe SSD that Lenovo installed in this laptop. The SK Hynix 512GB NVMe SSD is insanely fast. It provides up to 3600 / 3000 mbps R / W speeds. Typically this is one area the manufactures skimp out on and install slow drives to save on costs. Rest assured, Lenovo has your back on this one. I am super thrilled with this laptop and look forward to all the gaming ahead.
The laptop has a mux switch included with essentially turns off the internal Radeon Vega graphics and sets the RTX 3050TI dedicated state. This gives you full GPU power. The GPU is rated at max 95w TDP. Definitely not a Max Q variant.
*** Bonus – Lenovo provides factory overclocking in the bios for the RTX 3050TI which further boosts performance!
Don’t let the 4GB of GDDR6 video memory deter you from picking up this silent sleeper of gaming goodness. It has plenty of power and finesse to keep you gaming for hours on end!