Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Ultimate Review: Lenovo’s Best Gaming Laptop Yet

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Jun 20, 2025 - 19:20

This is the most powerful gaming laptop that I have ever used. Let me put it this way, I’m not a big gamer. I’m one of those that, if I’m going to play a game, I’ll play on my PlayStation 5, so I’ve never bought a gaming laptop, because they just don’t appeal to me. Especially with how much I travel, a gaming laptop is not something that’s easy to travel with. Especially the Legion Pro 7i which weighs in at 5.67lbs (or 2.72kg). It’s not unable to be toted around, but it is fairly heavy, and battery life also suffers.

But as a laptop that stays on my desk and is used for work during the day, and play at night, there’s nothing better right now. This laptop from Lenovo is packing a beautiful 16-inch OLED display using the taller 16:10 aspect ratio and a crazy fast 240Hz refresh rate. So gaming, content consumption and even just general work, looks great on this panel.

But, this laptop as configured is $3,519, which is not cheap. So is it worth your money? Well, let’s find out.

Specs

Lenovo Legion Pro 7i (10th Gen) Specs

Display	16″ 2560×1600 OLED, 240Hz
Processor	Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX
Graphics	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080, 16GB
Memory	32GB (2x16GB CSODIMM DDR5-6400)
Storage	2TB (2x1TB SSD M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0×4 NVMe
Weight	5.67lbs/2.72kg
Dimensions	14.35 x 10.9 x 0.86-1.05 inches
Operating System	Windows 11 Home

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Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Ultimate Review: Hardware

Lenovo has made a great looking gaming laptop here. Using an all-metal, all-black chassis here, which looks amazing. The only downside is that it does pck up fingerprints as you’d expect.

This new chassis is now larger than the 9th gen was, though it doesn’t feel much larger. That’s due to how the screen is placed here. Interestingly, the weight hasn’t changed either, despite being all-metal now. It’s still under 6lbs, which isn’t bad for a gaming laptop, though there are other “ultra-thin” creator laptops that have similar specs that are far thinner.

There’s plenty of RGB here too. Not only is the keyboard RGB, but there’s also an RGB light on the bottom of the laptop, which shines onto the table or desk that you have the laptop sitting on. And there’s RGB around the backside of the Legion Pro 7i too. I’m not a huge fan of this much RGB, the keyboard is plenty for me. Unfortunately, all of the RGB elements seem to be tied together, so you either turn them all on or off, and not individually, which is a real downside here.

On the bottom of the Legion Pro 7i, you’ll also notice a couple of pretty large fan vents, and feet to keep the laptop off of the table for better airflow. With these kind of specs, you can bet that this laptop will get hot and fast. So those fans are definitely needed.

The off-center trackpad

Typically, when I used a laptop, I’m using a mouse with it, and not so much the trackpad. Especially when it’s not a Mac, as most PC trackpads just aren’t good. But one thing that was tough to get used to here was the off-center trackpad. It’s centered with the main part of the keyboard, but Lenovo has included the numberpad, so now it’s not quite centered, and takes some getting used too. But it is nice, big, and beautiful trackpad. No one’s seen a trackpad this beautiful.

The keyboard is good, no real complaints here. It has enough travel for me, however those that like mechanical keyboards might have an issue here. The keys are indented a tiny bit, which makes it easier to use. The “O” key also has the Legion logo on it, which looks really cool.

Just above the keyboard is the power button, shaped in the Legion logo as well.

Plenty of ports

Lenovo does include a ton of ports on this laptop, which you’d expect on a gaming laptop, since space isn’t really an issue here. On the right side, there are two USB-A ports, a headphone jack, and an Ethernet port. Lenovo has also include a physical switch for the webcam as well. Something more companies need to do.

Over on the left side, there’s another USB-A port, two USB-C ports that also support USB-C PD, and a HDMI port. There’s also Lenovo’s proprietary connector there for charging. It does come with a 400W charging brick, which is insanely heavy, but is able to charge this 99.9Whr battery pretty fast, compared to USB-C PD.

Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Ultimate Review: Display

This is a beautiful display, there’s no getting around that. This is a 16-inch QHD 240Hz display with a 16:10 aspect ratio. This might be the best looking display you can buy on a laptop right now. But there’s a downside. And that’s how glossy it is. If you try using this in a bright room, or even outdoors, it’s going to make it tough to see, and it doesn’t help that it only reaches 500 nits of brightness.

A slightly smaller gripe about this display is that it’s not a touch screen. I was just reviewing a couple of ASUS laptops that are made for creators, but can also be gaming laptops, and they have touch screens. So I’ve touched this Legion Pro 7i display quite a bit, and nothing happened. It’s likely not an issue for most people, as many gaming laptops do not have touch screens.

Otherwise, this is an amazing display. Great for watching content and amazing for playing games.

Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Ultimate Review: Performance

Performance on the Lenovo Legion Pro 7i is top-notch, which is what you’d expect from a laptop with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 inside, along with its price tag of over $3k. But it’s true, I’ve never had any issues with lag or stuttering on the Legion Pro 7i. The only complaint I’ve had here is the heat, and how often the fans speed up.

To preface this, my usual laptop is a MacBook Pro, which very rarely gets hot, and I’ve almost never heard the fans spin up. So seeing this on the Legion Pro 7i is not common for me. Opening up Chrome on the Pro 7i, the fans immediately start spinning, which is not surprising since Chrome is very unoptimized on non-ARM machines like the Legion Pro 7i. However, I will say, the Legion Pro 7i does a good job of keeping the laptop relatively cool.

Benchmarks

Of course, we can’t talk performance on a gaming laptop without talking about benchmarks. And we did run a number of benchmarks on the Lenovo Legion Pro 7i to see how well (or not well) the computer actually runs.

First off is Geekbench 6. This is a test that we run on everything, including smartphones and tablets. Geekbench 6 tests out the raw performance of the single-core, multi-core and the GPU. And as you’d expect, the Lenovo Legion Pro 7i kind of runs away with everything on the GPU score, since it is the first NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series that we’ve tested.

In these benchmarks, we are comparing it to the ASUS ProArt P16 and the ASUS ProArt PX13 that we just recently reviewed, as well as the Apple MacBook Pro (M3 Pro). It’s worth mentioning that all of these are a generation behind the Legion Pro 7i, so the numbers aren’t quite apples-to-apples.

Laptop	Geekbench Single	Geekbench Multi	Geekbench GPU
Lenovo Legion Pro 7i	2,962	15,262	117,636
ASUS ProArt PX13	2,852	13,878	88,995
ASUS ProArt P16	2,764	12,015	99,165
Apple MacBook Pro (M3 Pro)	3,017	13,614	43,556

As we can see from these results, the Legion Pro 7i does beat everything on this list, quite handily. Though the MacBook Pro does keep up quite nicely, and even beats everyone in the single-core test, which is somewhat surprising given that the M3 Pro is almost two years old at this point.

Next up is Cinebench. This is another benchmark that is used to test the performance of the CPU, and as you can see in the table below, it’s mostly the same as what we saw on Geekbench 6. The Legion Pro 7i beat out everything, except for the MacBook Pro, again in the single test.

Laptop	Cinebench Single	Cinebench Multi
Lenovo Legion Pro 7i	135	1,879
ASUS ProArt PX13	112	1,089
ASUS ProArt P16	116	1,142
Apple MacBook Pro (M3 Pro)	145	976

So, what does this tell us about the performance of the Legion Pro 7i? Well, it’s top-notch, as I mentioned at the beginning of this section. It’s likely the best-performing laptop you can buy right now. But of course, that will change over the next few months, as more and more laptops come out (and IFA is right around the corner).

The last benchmark we run is a battery life benchmark. Now this isn’t something like PCMark that we run to test out the battery, because we feel like that doesn’t really represent battery usage that well, compared to the real world. So what I do instead, is charge the laptop to 100% overnight. Then when I start work at 8AM, I unplug it, and work as usual to see how long it lasts. This is the best way to get the same sort of usage out of every laptop I review. And for the Lenovo Legion Pro 7i, it didn’t last long. Which I fully expected, given that this is a gaming laptop, and it is more focused on performance than it is on battery life.

For me, I was about to get about 2.5 hours out of the battery before plugging it in. What did surprise me, however, was the fact that it was able to keep running at 1% and then even 0% for a little bit before actually turning off. And this was all done on “balanced” so not even the best performance – which I don’t really need for Chrome, Lightroom and Photoshop.

Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Ultimate Review: Software

It’s running Windows, and if you know me, you know that I absolutely despise Windows. But I used this laptop for several weeks as my main laptop, over my MacBook Pro. And to be honest, the software was fine. There’s still quite a bit of bloat on this one, like with a lot of PCs, but thankfully, you can uninstall a lot of it.

There’s also the X-Rite Color Assistant, which allows you to easily switch color profiles for this display. Making it easy to go from a very color-accurate display, over to a more saturated one for playing games, and such.

Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Ultimate Review: Battery Life and Charging

As expected here, Battery life is not great. Of course, it never is on gaming laptops, because they have the most powerful processors and graphics included. So battery life is an after thought. This Legion Pro 7i sports a 99.9WHr battery inside, which is going to get you just a couple of hours of usage.

In my normal battery test, I will unplug it at 100% to start work around 8AM. And then see how long before I needed to plug it in. For the Legion Pro 7i, that was a little over two hours, which is pretty crazy. Especially after using some ARM-based laptops over the past year or so.

You can get a bit more on the “Balanced” profile, but I had “Best Performance” set, because I wanted the best experience possible.

Now when it comes to charging, you can charge over USB-C PD, but let’s face it, that is going to be extremely slow considering the size of this battery. Lenovo does include its own proprietary 400W charging brick. And it is a literal brick. It charges it much, much faster. With that charging brick, you can get a full charge in roughly an hour. Which is actually surprisingly good.

Should you buy the Lenovo Legion Pro 7i?

Given the price of the Lenovo Legion Pro 7i, it was always going to be a hard recommendation, no matter how good it is. I will say, however, that if money is no object and you want the very best performance that money can buy, then the Legion Pro 7i is the one to get.

However, if you’re not a gamer but still need a good graphics card for things like video editing, 3D modeling, and general content creation, I would urge you to check out the many “Creator” laptops that are all the rage these days. ASUS has a few that we just reviewed, which are much cheaper. They are using last-gen graphics, so it’s not quite as powerful, however.

You should buy the Lenovo Legion Pro 7i if:

You want the absolute best performance for Cyberpunk 2077.
You want a big, beautiful OLED display for gaming.

You should not buy the Lenovo Legion Pro 7i if:

You want a portable laptop that won’t break your back.
You want a quiet laptop.
You want a powerful laptop under a certain price point.

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