Legion Pro 7i Gen 10

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Summary for Legion Pro 7i Gen 10 (Desktop replacement Machine. NOT A LAPTOP)

The laptop to buy in sale.

The main reason to look at this DRM(Desktop Repalcement Machine) is that other better performing DRMs are more substantially more expensive. That's the main reason.
Which includes Dell's Alienware 18, Asus Scar 18/16, Medion Erazer Beast 16 X1 Ultimate or Schenker XMG Neo some of which can actually be classified as gaming laptop or come with external water cooling.
CPU runs very hot in gaming(people expect it to run hot in benchmarks but not during actual use case). This puts the long term viability of this particular laptop in question.
GPU stays cool and performs pretty well in the laptop.
Maybe the culprit of the heating CPU is the new vapour/hyper chamber thingy which clearly is a bad design decision compared to a four vent exhaust design.
Coupled with the fact that the laptop chokes when being using on a table(You know, like a laptop is supposed to be used!),

Caution: VVI If you're buying

This is Intel CPU which I stopped recommending because it's long-term usage was in doubt. Only proceed if you're fine on that point.
Even during gaming and laptop raised the CPU even at 75W stabilizes at over 90°C.
The 275HX CPU has been shown to have lower temperatures while having the same or more performance in other large laptops like the Dell's Alienware 18 Area 51 or the Asus Scar 18 (With just 10W less sustanaible TDP of 140W instead of 150W). This further proves about my theory of four sided vents better and two sided vents bad.
No need to push this 275HX CPU with custom mode and extreme fans to achieve the 175W sustained load. Even at 150W the performance difference isn't but the temperatures drop from 90 to 85°C ON A STAND. Even with a beefy vapour chamber and large laptop, the lack of four sided vents show here as the core temperatures are really high.
The only way to confirm is for a another laptop with the same CPU review with a four vents and how does it perform in comparision.
I quickly chekced a few laptops and for the temperatures I could find, I see worse temperatreus than this even closing to 100°C.
If you don't need the extra VRAM for work, the 5080 might be the better choice consdiering the gap in raw performance isn't much.
Even though laptop says PD charging of upto 140W it only draws 80W from wall which makes CPU run at half it's capacity and GPU a quarter of it's capacity. Also, I have seen that such PD chargers don't work with gaming laptops unless they are sleeping which is no use to anyone really.
If you live in a place where you can get the Lenovo's own 140W adpater might be aviailable then the scores will be a bit better but still not recommended.
ALWAYS USE STAND WITH THIS LAPTOP.
Without a stand the Intel CPU starts overheating(103°C) at just around 75W at which the performance isn't enough for modern games.
This is a very expensive laptop. Don't buy if you don't get atleast a total of three years Accidental Damage Protection or Warranaty of atleast three years(+1 which can be bought later). More details about it here.
There are good reasons to turn off DLSS so only check gaming benchmarks without that.
No, a laptop cooler won't help with lower temps on the Intel CPU(Check Benchmark Image below).
OLED so PWM. Check you are not affected by PWM dimming.
There are some people who are effected by PWM(or very fast flickering lights) and have a lot of headaches. It's a small percentage of people and you should figure out if you're effected by this before getting this laptop.
Will discuss more about it here.
Two vents so regular fan cleaning required. No need to remove the thermal module, just the fan blades with a brush is fine.

Extra Notes

The laptop comes with the software: Legion Space that was originally for Legion Go Handhelds and is much more focussed on the actual performance tweaks that Lenovo Vantage earlier used to be.
There is no AMD variant this year around so expect both Legion Pro 7i and Pro 7 names for the same laptop this generation.
The should have released an AMD variant of this laptop. Even if that CPU might have hit 100°C better power scaling would mean that we wouldn't lose that much performance at limited TDP at all.
Maximum performance at the cost of a larger size. This is a desktop replacement not a laptop.
What makes it a desktop replacement is not the size of the laptop itself but the 1kg charger with it along with the huge 400W power draw.
This should be obvious but the mobile 5080 GPU is nowhere close to the desktop 5080 so forget 4k Gaming.

Made a Desktop Replacement Category on the laptop page for such bulky laptop and there it fits perfectly

Review halted because I can't seem to recommend Intel Laptpos anymore and ones with a lot of power. 400W adapter of 1kg is just too much. I will not touch this review unless there is someone espcically looking for this laptop.

Initial Look: Even before going into this laptop I hate this immediately only because of the Intel CPU in this. I expected some battery life with the 100Whr battery but it's completley pathetic battery life and you might as well buy a PC. I mean it has been expected with Legions and especially Legion 7's to have decent enough battery life while also having pretty good performance and with this power hungry Intel CPU everything is ruined. To be honest I don't even want to review this laptop.

Pros/Cons

Pros

CPU: 275HX: Integrates NPU from 185H and performance of 14900HX
Performance is close to the flagship 9945HX
No performance drop even though this is new Intel CPU proving that Intel CPUs can run without performance drop if provided with enough thermal and power headroom.
5080 is 175W, highest powered and can easily beat the 5090 in Asus Strix Scar 18 or Asus Zephryus G16.
5080 at
The laptop comes with PTM thermal paste so you will not need to change the thermal paste for many years.
The laptop has been made larger to have better cooling solutiong and higher power draw instead of a thinner laptop. Performance enthusianst will appreciate this.
Great OLED Display: High Refresh Rate, Windows VRR, DisplayHDR10000, G-Synch, 1000nits
100% sRGB, 100% DCI-P3 and 94% Adobe RGB so great for color accurate work.
No flex. Sturdy Hinge. Metal Body.
Low latency screen.
Body temperatrues are okay to touch even in high performance mode so you can use the laptop's keyboard.
Fans are quiet in balanced mode with just 15% drop in graphics performance.

Neutral

Neutral-Good

>Good keyboard will full size keys.
Touchpad is okay as long as you just tap and not press down on it.
No electrical noise or coil whine issues
Officaily says support for 64GB(Maybe more but they wrote it officialy)
Four Speakers→ Pretty good speakers but loudness is still average

Neutral-Doesn't matter

The size of the laptop is still smaller than Alienware x16 R2 P120F or MSI Vector 16 HX A14V
Wifi-7 and Bluetooth 5.4
Camera is usable. Not good, not bad.
Touchpad is just usable.
Two Full size SSD slots

Neutral-Bad

No IR Sensor in Camera so no Windows Hello Login(Kind of expected at this price).
Since this is OLED, PWM is going to be an issue, however, the freqency is quite high so most users should not be affected by it.
Display isn't designed for outdoor usage as it's glossy.
One USB is 3.2 Gen 2. Other USB-A are Gen 1 only.
Even with a massive battery it only lasts 3 hours.
One SSD is Gen5 while the other is Gen 4 only.
💩 Camera

Cons

CPU: STABLISES at 160-170W@90°C for shorter periods and 150W@85°C for long sustained loads.
You can run it on full fans in custom mode at 170W even at high 80°C but running fans at maximum all the time is not good for long life of laptop.
This is a desktop replacement, not a laptop: 4kgs/9pounds laptop+charger also they are big and bulky. The charger itself is bulky and big even for dekstop replacement machines at 1.2kgs.

Get the extra warranty with this hot machine as those temperatures are actually for a cool Air conditioned room.

Core Temperatures are high and the funs run loud even if having a higher chasis.
No SD Card Reader. Yes, it matters for a laptop as expensive as this.
No ports in the back so no clean setup like before. Every cable will hang from the sides.
Idle power draw is high so low battery life even with a few applications.
No Thunderbolt 5.
Screen only goes back tyo 145°
Design is fully gamer-y.

Benchmarks

Performance profile with the GPU set on Hybrid mode

3DMark 13 - CPU profile: max 3DMark 13 - CPU profile: max - 16229, 16 - 13928, 8 - 9104, 4 - 4964, 2 - 2484, 1 - 1245;
3DMark 13 - Fire Strike (DX11): 38614 (Graphics - 50902, Physics - 41980, Combined - 13176);
3DMark 13 - Port Royal (RTX): 14437;
3DMark 13 - Time Spy (DX12): 21695 (Graphics - 22742, CPU - 12210);
3DMark 13 - Speed Way (DX12 Ultimate): 5835;
3DMark 13 - Steel Nomad (DX12 Ultimate): 5365;
3DMark 13 - DLSS: 31.67 fps DLSS Off, 127.25 fps DLSS On;
Uniengine Superposition - 1080p Extreme: 12731;
Uniengine Superposition - 1080p Medium: 33456;
Aida64 Extreme, memory test - ;
PCMark 10: 9378 (Essentials - 10945, Productivity - 10554, Digital Content Creation - 19376);
GeekBench 6.2.2 64-bit: Multi-core: 18951, Single-Core: 2898;
CineBench R15 (best run): CPU 5836 cb, CPU Single Core 316 cb;
CineBench R20 (best run): CPU 13730 cb, CPU Single Core 800 cb;
CineBench R23: CPU 36208 cb (best single run), CPU 33723 cb (10 min run), CPU Single Core 2109 cb;
CineBench 2024: GPU - pts, CPU 2131 pts (loop run), CPU Single Core 135 pts.
And here are some workstation benchmarks, on the same Performance profile:

Blender 3.6.5 - BMW scene - CPU Compute: 1m 01s;
Blender 3.6.5 - BMW scene - GPU Compute: 10.02s (CUDA), 5.39 (Optix);
Blender 3.5.6 - Classroom scene - CPU Compute: 2m 34s;
Blender 3.6.5 - Classroom scene - GPU Compute: 18.54s (CUDA), 10.48s (Optix);
Blender 4.3.2 - BMW scene - CPU Compute: 1m 03s;
Blender 4.3.2 - BMW scene - GPU Compute: 10.15s (CUDA), 5.49 (Optix);
Blender 4.3.2 - Classroom scene - CPU Compute: 2m 47s;
Blender 4.3.2 - Classroom scene - GPU Compute: 19.56s (CUDA), 11.33s (Optix);
Puget Benchmark - Adobe Photoshop (26.1) - tba;
Puget Benchmark - Adobe Premiere (25.1.0) - tba;
Puget Benchmark - Davinci Resolve (19.1) - 10369;
SPECviewperf 2020 - 3DSMax: 194.23;
SPECviewperf 2020 - Catia: 103.53;
SPECviewperf 2020 - Creo: 118.52;
SPECviewperf 2020 - Energy: 66.89;
SPECviewperf 2020 - Maya: 630.77;
SPECviewperf 2020 - Medical: 61.25;
SPECviewperf 2020 - SNX: 34.05;
SPECviewperf 2020 - SW: 505.09
V-Ray Benchmark: 25068- CPU, 3017- CUDA, 3954- RTX. 16229, 16 - 13928, 8 - 9104, 4 - 4964, 2 - 2484, 1 - 1245;
3DMark 13 - Fire Strike (DX11): 38614 (Graphics - 50902, Physics - 41980, Combined - 13176);
3DMark 13 - Port Royal (RTX): 14437;
3DMark 13 - Time Spy (DX12): 21695 (Graphics - 22742, CPU - 12210);
3DMark 13 - Speed Way (DX12 Ultimate): 5835;
3DMark 13 - Steel Nomad (DX12 Ultimate): 5365;
3DMark 13 - DLSS: 31.67 fps DLSS Off, 127.25 fps DLSS On;
Uniengine Superposition - 1080p Extreme: 12731;
Uniengine Superposition - 1080p Medium: 33456;
Aida64 Extreme, memory test - ;
PCMark 10: 9378 (Essentials - 10945, Productivity - 10554, Digital Content Creation - 19376);
GeekBench 6.2.2 64-bit: Multi-core: 18951, Single-Core: 2898;
CineBench R15 (best run): CPU 5836 cb, CPU Single Core 316 cb;
CineBench R20 (best run): CPU 13730 cb, CPU Single Core 800 cb;
CineBench R23: CPU 36208 cb (best single run), CPU 33723 cb (10 min run), CPU Single Core 2109 cb;
CineBench 2024: GPU - pts, CPU 2131 pts (loop run), CPU Single Core 135 pts.
And here are some workstation benchmarks, on the same Performance profile:

Blender 3.6.5 - BMW scene - CPU Compute: 1m 01s;
Blender 3.6.5 - BMW scene - GPU Compute: 10.02s (CUDA), 5.39 (Optix);
Blender 3.5.6 - Classroom scene - CPU Compute: 2m 34s;
Blender 3.6.5 - Classroom scene - GPU Compute: 18.54s (CUDA), 10.48s (Optix);
Blender 4.3.2 - BMW scene - CPU Compute: 1m 03s;
Blender 4.3.2 - BMW scene - GPU Compute: 10.15s (CUDA), 5.49 (Optix);
Blender 4.3.2 - Classroom scene - CPU Compute: 2m 47s;
Blender 4.3.2 - Classroom scene - GPU Compute: 19.56s (CUDA), 11.33s (Optix);
Puget Benchmark - Adobe Photoshop (26.1) - tba;
Puget Benchmark - Adobe Premiere (25.1.0) - tba;
Puget Benchmark - Davinci Resolve (19.1) - 10369;
SPECviewperf 2020 - 3DSMax: 194.23;
SPECviewperf 2020 - Catia: 103.53;
SPECviewperf 2020 - Creo: 118.52;
SPECviewperf 2020 - Energy: 66.89;
SPECviewperf 2020 - Maya: 630.77;
SPECviewperf 2020 - Medical: 61.25;
SPECviewperf 2020 - SNX: 34.05;
SPECviewperf 2020 - SW: 505.09
V-Ray Benchmark: 25068- CPU, 3017- CUDA, 3954- RTX.

Custom Mode - max power, 50+ dBA noise

3DMark 13 -CPU profile: max - 17056, 16 - 14033, 8 - 9107, 4 - 4973, 2 - 2507, 1 - 1270;
3DMark 13 - Fire Strike: 38210 (Graphics - 48727, Physics - 49078, Combined - 12949);
3DMark 13 - Port Royal (RTX): 14534;
3DMark 13 - Time Spy: 21099 (Graphics - 22251, CPU - 16314);
3DMark 13 - Speed Way (DX12 Ultimate): 5856;
Uniengine Superposition - 1080p Extreme: 12831;
CineBench R23 (10 min loop): CPU 37837 cb, CPU Single Core 2240 cb;
Blender 3.6.5 - Classroom scene - CPU Compute: 2m 24s.
SPECviewperf 2020 - 3DSMax: 203.74;
SPECviewperf 2020 - Catia: 107.67;
SPECviewperf 2020 - Maya: 600.89;
SPECviewperf 2020 - SNX: 37.20;
SPECviewperf 2020 - SW: 473.76.

Balance Mode - low power, 38 dBA noise

3DMark 13 - CPU profile: max - 13520, 16 - 11844, 8 - 8096, 4 - 4847, 2 - 2485, 1 - 1244;
3DMark 13 - Fire Strike: 31909 (Graphics - 40618, Physics - 40892, Combined - 10863);
3DMark 13 - Port Royal (RTX): 10744;
3DMark 13 - Time Spy: 16915 (Graphics - 16419, CPU - 15035);
3DMark 13 - Speed Way (DX12 Ultimate): 3471;
Uniengine Superposition - 1080p Extreme: 9151;
CineBench R23 (10 min loop): CPU 27021 cb, CPU Single Core 2078 cb;
Blender 3.6.5 - Classroom scene - CPU Compute: 3m 06s.
SPECviewperf 2020 - 3DSMax: 182.14;
SPECviewperf 2020 - Catia: 90.59;
SPECviewperf 2020 - Maya: 515.35;
SPECviewperf 2020 - SNX: 34.35;
SPECviewperf 2020 - SW: 383.01.

Quiet Mode - lower power, sub 35 dBA noise

3DMark 13 - CPU profile: max - 10702, 16 - 8921, 8 - 6965, 4 - 4211, 2 - 2057, 1 - 987;
3DMark 13 - Fire Strike: 26814 (Graphics - 33631, Physics - 34589, Combined - 9384);
3DMark 13 - Port Royal (RTX): 9067;
3DMark 13 - Time Spy: 13617 (Graphics - 13411, CPU - 14916);
3DMark 13 - Speed Way (DX12 Ultimate): 1782;
Uniengine Superposition - 1080p Extreme: 8158;
CineBench R23 (10 min loop): CPU 20519 cb, CPU Single Core 1669 cb;
Blender 3.6.5 - Classroom scene - CPU Compute: 4m 00s.
SPECviewperf 2020 - 3DSMax: 155.89;
SPECviewperf 2020 - Catia: 78.58;
SPECviewperf 2020 - Maya: 426.23;
SPECviewperf 2020 - SNX: 27.83;
SPECviewperf 2020 - SW: 325.34.

CPU Benchmarks

Cinebench R23: Single: 2195
Cinebench R23: Multi: Multi: 36597 (34151.5 - 36596.9). Only 7% peformance drop.
Cinebench R15 Multi Loop: 5698 (5601.46-5746.3). Only 3% performance drop.
Geekbench 6.4: Single: 3052 | Multi: 19081 .
Note: These scores increase with more RAM. These are of 32GB Variant.

Anything above 75W sustained during gaming also and the CPU crosses 90°C

Even Cooling Fans can't stop this CPU from overheating

CPU Wattage	Performance Drop	Temperatures
45 W	53%
55 W	60%
90 W	78%	73 °C
150 W	98%	85 °C
175 W	100%	90 °C

GPU Benchmarks

3D Mark Time Spy: 21992 | CPU: 17,607 | Graphics: 23,003
Fire Strike: 38445 | Graphics: 49153 | Physics: 47850 | Combined: 13127
Port Royal v1.3: 14620 | 67.69 FPS
Speed Way: 5918 | Graphics test: 59.18 FPS

Gaming Benchmarks

	low	med.	high	ultra	QHD DLSS	QHD	4K DLSS	4K FSR	4K
Dota 2 Reborn (2015)	240	216	203	188.9					182.1
Final Fantasy XV Benchmark (2018)			210			173.1			101.3
X-Plane 11.11 (2018)	156.6	153.7	124.5						100.7
Strange Brigade (2018)			481	434		304			169.7
Baldur's Gate 3 (2023)	276.1	250.5	220.1	211.5		155.8	132.4		81.1
Cyberpunk 2077 2.2 Phantom Liberty (2023)	198.4	192	172.5	156.2	119	99.8	73.4	43	47.1
Alan Wake 2 (2023)	135.6	131.9	124.2			83.8			43.1
Black Myth: Wukong (2024)	171	128	99	58	62	44	45		26
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (2024)	187.9		145.9	129.2	120.1	102.4			63.2
Monster Hunter Wilds (2025)	110.1	104.4		90	87.7	73.2	61.8		45.2
Assassin's Creed Shadows (2025)	111	104	90	64	65	55	55		40

Pictures

References

https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/products/laptops-and-netbooks/legion-series/legion-pro-7-16iax10h/83f5/83f5cto1wwin2?linkTrack=Homepage%3ABody_Search%20Products&searchType=5&keyWordSearch=Legion%20Pro%207%2016IAX10H%20-%20Type%2083F5%20-%2083F5CTO1WWIN2
https://psref.lenovo.com/Product/Legion/Legion_Pro_7_16IAX10H
https://download.lenovo.com/consumer/mobiles_pub/legion_pro_7i_16_10_hmm_en_final.pdf
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-Legion-Pro-7i-16-Gen-10-laptop-review-400-W-power-supply-with-almost-no-compromises.999828.0.html
https://www.ultrabookreview.com/71446-lenovo-legion-pro-7i-gen10-review/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsIyCFaN1i4

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