The Lenovo Legion laptops are excellent machines, and this Lenovo Legion 5 deal on Best Buy saves you $230 on a brilliant gaming laptop. Much like its ThinkPads and IdeaPads, Lenovo has been killing it in the portable gaming market for years now. The advent of Nvidia’s RTX 4000 series of laptop GPUs only further improved the Legion laptops.
Power, style, and performance
The Lenovo Legion 5 is a beautiful laptop. It isn’t as flashy as the ASUS ROG laptops, and takes on a more elegant look. Under the hood however, it packs quite the punch. Powering it is the AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS processor with its 8 cores, 16 threads, and a max clock speed of 4.75 GHz.
Alongside that you get 512 GBs of SSD storage and 16 GBs of DDR5 RAM. The display is 15.6” in size and has a resolution of 2560 x 1440 with a refresh rate of 165 Hz. You also get dual speakers and a 720p front webcam. Windows 11 is also bundled with your purchase.
The RTX 4060
To wrap the bow around this package you have the Nvidia RTX 4060 GPU. As with all of the RTX 4000 cards, the RTX 4060 with its 8 GBs of GDDR6 VRAM is a powerhouse in a very compact form. Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 (2023), for example, runs at 61 frames per second on Ultra settings on QHD (the resolution of this laptop’s display).
The RTX 4060 isn’t just going to run modern games with ease, it’s going to stay relevant for many years to come. The Lenovo Legion 5 is currently on sale for just $869.99, so if you want a powerful gaming laptop at a great price, this is an excellent deal.
