Lenovo Legion Pro 7 and Lenovo Legion Pro 5 gaming laptops introduced with AMD Dragon Range processors and 240 Hz WQXGA display

Lenovo has joined the lengthy record of OEMs updating their gaming laptops with new {hardware} introduced at CES 2023. The Legion Professional 7 and Legion Professional 5 want to make use of AMD’s shiny new Dragon Vary processors however pair them with Ada Lovelace graphics playing cards. Apparently, the Legion Professional 7 will not hit the shores of North America or Europe, however the Legion Professional 5 can be out there in April and March for $1,460/€1,649 respectively.

Technically, the variations between Lenovo Legion Professional 7 and Lenovo Legion Professional 5 are minimal. Customers can configure each with a 16-inch WQXGA (2,560 x 1,600) 240 Hz IPS panel with 500 nits peak brightness, 3 ms response time, and VESA DisplayHDR400/X-Ceremony Pantone/Nvidia G-Sync/AMD FreeSync certification. The Legion Professional 5 affords a scaled-down mannequin with 165 GHz. The 720p/1080p webcam sits above the display with the privateness flap.

Beneath the hood, the Lenovo Legion Professional 7 contains an AMD Ryzen 9 7950HX Dragon Vary processor. The Legion Professional 5 has extra choices, together with low-end SKUs just like the Ryzen 9 7845HX, Ryzen 7 7745HX, and Ryzen 5 7645HX. Lenovo uncared for to say the complete graphics card mannequin for each SKUs, however they’ll virtually definitely embrace a GeForce RTX 4090 handset for the Legion Professional 7 and at the very least one GeForce RTX 4080 for the Legion Professional 5.

Lenovo Legion Professional 7 may be configured with as much as 32GB 6,000 MT/s manufacturing unit overclocked DDR5 RAM. Legion Professional 5 reduces this determine to five,600 MT/s. Each laptops supply as much as 2TB NVMe SSDs. Wi-fi connectivity choices embrace Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.1. Different I/O contains two USB 3.2 Gen2 Kind-C ports (DP out plus 140W quick cost appropriate), three USB Kind-A ports, an HDMI 2.1 port, and an RJ45 Ethernet jack. Lastly, the Legion Professional 7 is powered by a 99.9 Wh battery and the Legion Professional 5 is powered by an 80 Wh battery.

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