Like the remainder of gaming manufacturers on the market, Lenovo is unveiling its newest gaming laptops at CES, however the firm is doing one thing a tad distinctive with Legion Professional collection this 12 months. Whilst you can count on the same old set of upgrades and enhancements, like extra highly effective parts and refined designs, Lenovo’s newest Legion Professional gaming laptops are tuned with synthetic intelligence.
Lenovo claims these are the world’s first gaming laptops with a devoted AI chip. What does that imply precisely? Nicely based on Lenovo, the magic is a mixture of {hardware} and software program. Particularly, the Lenovo LA AI chip and the Lenovo AI Engine+ software program. Collectively, the brand new laptops can dynamically regulate efficiency based mostly on the wants of the consumer through a machine studying algorithm. The AI chip displays issues like fps and adjusts efficiency accordingly based mostly on output.
And should you’re all the time attempting to get essentially the most out of your gaming rig, this looks like a fairly good method to make sure you get that. As for the specs, all 4 laptops appear pretty succesful. The brand new collection consists of the Legion Professional 7i and Professional 7, and the Legion Professional 5i and Professional 5. With the principle distinction boiling right down to using Intel or AMD for the CPU.
New Lenovo Legion Professional gaming laptops at CES boast highly effective {hardware}
Throughout the board, all 4 laptops include a 16-inch show. So there’s no variance in dimension. The truth is, the shows are utterly the identical on all fashions as properly. All include a decision of 2560 x 1600 in a 16:10 facet ratio, with a 240Hz refresh charge, and a 500 nit peak brightness. Lenovo will nevertheless supply a second show possibility on the Legion Professional 5i and Legion Professional 5. The show is similar decision, however comes with a dimmer 300 nit peak brightness and a slower 165Hz refresh charge.
These choices are prone to include a cheaper price. Each 7 collection fashions can include as much as 32GB of 6000Mhz DDR5 RAM. Each 5 collection fashions include as much as 32GB of DDR5 RAM as properly, but it surely’s barely slower at 5600Mhz. Storage is 2TB throughout the board with as much as an Intel Core i9-13900HX CPU within the Legion Professional 7i and Legion Professional 5i, whereas the Legion Professional 7 and Legion Professional 5 shift to AMD. The Legion Professional 7 solely comes with one config although, the Ryzen 9 7945HX.
The Legion Professional 5 nevertheless comes with as much as a Ryzen 9 7845HX. Lenovo doesn’t listing the precise GPU fashions, however they’re all next-gen NVIDIA RTX playing cards. Which most definitely means 40 collection GPUs as much as an RTX 4080 or RTX 4090. As that appears to be the usual with most manufacturers this 12 months to this point.
Lenovo plans to launch the Legion Professional 7i in March beginning at $1,999.99. This shall be adopted by the Legion Professional 5i and Legion Professional 5 in April beginning at $1,479.99 and $1,4599.99 respectively. The Legion Professional 7 is not going to be getting a launch in North America.