Lenovo Legion 5i Gen 9 Reviews

Uses the RTX 4060 Legion 5i for work with many tabs and desktops plus some ComfyUI and Blender. Even after tuning, opening a PDF feels slow for the hardware.

Two weeks in with the i7-14650HX/RTX 4070, very happy with performance and the 240Hz screen, but reports RGB keyboard flicker, audio glitches on the dGPU and occasional stutters.

Owns the 16IRX9 with i7 and RTX 4060 and upgraded the RAM. After applying the tuning tweaks they still get occasional freezes with an audio buzz, and game temperatures of 70-80C.

Owns the Legion 5 16IRX9 and upgraded to 32GB, but the aftermarket SODIMMs ran at only 4800MT/s instead of the 5600MT/s the original RAM reached.

Owns the 16IRX9 in Luna Grey. Palm rest discolored within three months and they plan to skin it, but otherwise they call it an amazing laptop.

Owner of the 16IRX9 for almost seven months. The motherboard died but Lenovo replaced it within 24 hours and it has worked fine since.

Has the same laptop and saw the same stutters a couple of times, mostly after gaming while the CPU was still hot and on the iGPU during video playback.

Four months with the RTX 4060 version; shares the RGB flicker issue and has audio flicker with a USB-C dongle, but no stutters and a superb gaming experience.

Bought the same laptop recently on a deal; no RGB problems but sometimes tinny audio and occasional stutters, more often in the browser and on battery.

Coming from an AMD system, the Intel Legion 5i 16IRX9 needed more tweaking than expected and felt excessively expensive. The RTX caused no real problems, and they would go back to AMD next time.