The Legion 7 Gen 7 seamlessly switches to the Radeon graphics on its Ryzen CPU in power-saving scenarios, and it pays off: over nine hours of battery life for a hulking gaming laptop like this is noteworthy. The next-best time from the Gigabyte Aero 16 was 6 hours and 34 minutes. The Legion 7 Gen 7 also impressed with its peak screen brightness of 512.2 nits. It doesn’t have the most colorful display in this group, covering 75% of the popular DCI-P3 gamut versus the Razer’s 100%, but it still looks quite colorful.

Battery: These systems do not support batteries that are not genuine Lenovo-made or authorised. Systems will continue to boot, but may not charge unauthorised batteries. Lenovo has no responsibility for the performance or safety of unauthorised batteries, and provides no warranties for failures or damage arising out of their use. **Battery life is based on the MobileMark® 2014 methodology and is an estimated maximum. Actual battery life may vary based on many factors, including screen brightness, active applications, features, power management settings, battery age and conditioning, and other customer preferences. The AMD-powered Lenovo Legion 7 is a top-notch gaming laptop for enthusiasts who want next-generation gaming in a mobile form factor. The RGB-powered laptop screams gaming in every way through its well-thought-out design, from the surrounding lights and keycaps to its well-placed vents and speakers. Outside of the usual preinstalled apps like TikTok and Spotify, the handiest app is Lenovo Vantage Vantage has multiple settings to customize the laptop, including different performance modes depending on if you want silence or full-blown power.The GeekBench 5 CPU stress test tells a similar tale, with the Legion 7 scoring 1,436 single-core and 7,322 multicore to the Core i9-powered M16’s 1,618 and 9,025. The difference between those productivity benchmark scores is like the difference between a 175mph Ferrari and a 185mph Lamborghini: indistinguishable and irrelevant in real-world use. th Generation Intel ® Core™ i5-10300H Processor (2.50 GHz, up to 4.50 GHz with Turbo Boost, 4 Cores, 8 Threads, 8 MB Cache)

Portability isn’t a strong suit, but this mobile gaming PC is otherwise hard to fault. The Lenovo Legion 7 Gen 7 earns a well-deserved Editors' Choice award among high-end, 16-inch gaming laptops as the Gen 6 model did before it. We’ve boosted our rating by half a star for now including a fingerprint reader, USB 4 ports, and a sharper 1080p webcam. I love that the touchpad is skewed a bit to the left, since the keyboard keys are shifted slightly due to the space bar. It felt more natural to have it under the keys I predominantly type on. READ NEXT: These are the best gaming headsets you can buy right now Lenovo Legion 7 review: Price & competition For Windows PCs, we run both synthetic and real-world gaming tests. The former include two DirectX 12 gaming simulations from UL's 3DMark, Night Raid (more modest, suitable for systems with integrated graphics) and Time Spy (more demanding, suitable for gaming rigs with discrete GPUs). Also looped into that group is the cross-platform GPU benchmark GFXBench 5, which we use to gauge OpenGL performance.

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For Windows PCs, we run both synthetic and real-world gaming tests. The former includes two DirectX 12 gaming simulations from UL's 3DMark, Night Raid (more modest, suitable for systems with integrated graphics) and Time Spy (more demanding, suitable for gaming rigs with discrete GPUs). Also looped into that group is the cross-platform GPU benchmark GFXBench 5, which we use to gauge OpenGL performance. Lenovo has been a bit of a latecomer to the world of gaming laptops, and the Legion 7 is the firm’s attempt to gain ground against big players like Asus and Alienware.

At first, I was surprised by how loud the speakers were. When I began listening to “Omar’s Coming” by Westside Gunn, I noticed how muffled the song was. Then, upon further inspection, I lifted the laptop and realized there were two smaller speakers underneath. Once I lifted it off the surface, Immediately heard the extra “oomph” they provided.There’s little between the RTX 3080 and the Asus’ RTX 3070 Ti. Lenovo Legion 7’s 3D Mark Time Spy result of 10,436 rubbed shoulders with the RTX 3070 Ti’s score of 10,389.

th Generation Intel ® Core™ i7-10750H Processor (2.60GHz, up to 5.00GHz with Turbo Boost, 6 Cores, 12 Threads, 12MB Cache) Storage speed proved to be good rather than great, with the Samsung SSD returning sequential read and write speeds of 3,126MB/s and 2,648MB/s respectively. The Asus M16 has it well beaten, recording speeds of 5,536 and 4,325MB/s, though the Legion 7’s speeds are still in line with other high-spec machines we’ve reviewed recently. Lenovo equipped this Legion 7 with an Nvidia Geforce RTX 3080 with 16GB of GDDR6 memory, alongside an AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX, which is an impressive combination. Every competitor mentioned here also sports an RTX 3080, except for the Razer Blade 15, which has a 3070 with 8GB GDDR6 VRAM. During the Grand Theft Auto V (Very High, 1080p) benchmark, the Lenovo Legion 7 hit an average of 121 fps, the Alienware x17 hit 129 fps, the Razer Blade reached 98 fps, and the Raider ran at 131 fps. The Legion 7 got 75 frames in its native resolution, ahead of the Razer Blade 15’s 62 fps at 1440p. The Alienware x17 pushed out 41 frames at its native 4K. WQXGA (2560 x 1600) IPS, 500 nits, 16:10 aspect ratio, 165Hz (3ms response time), 100% sRGB, up to VESA DisplayHDR™ 400 Certified, Dolby Vision ® support, AMD FreeSync™ Premium, TÜV Rheinland ® certifiedThe “Rembrandt” Ryzen 6000 series is AMD’s first mobile CPU to support DDR5 RAM. The Legion 7 Gen 7 uses the most powerful H- or HX-class versions with a 45-watt (W) thermal design power (TDP) rating. On the graphics front, the Radeon RX 6850M XT is the flagship AMD mobile graphics card and goes head-to-head with Nvidia’s flagship GeForce RTX 3080 Ti. The Legion 7 Gen 7 produced middling scores with its AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX CPU, not really competing with the Legion 7i Gen 7 but matching up with the Gigabyte Aero 16 and easily surpassing the underperforming Razer. It did, however, generally outperform the Corsair’s HS-class chip.