Lenovo Legion 9 16IRX9
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Average of 5 scores (from 8 reviews)
Reviews for the Lenovo Legion 9 16IRX9
Source: Digital Trends
If you’re on a quest for power, the Lenovo Legion 9i Gen 9 (16-inch) lies at the end of the journey. The desktop replacement is a certified beast, sporting a one-two punch of an Intel Core i9 processor and an Nvidia RTX 4090 GPU. Whether it’s gaming, creating content, or productivity, the Lenovo Legion 9i can handle it all with unflappable aplomb. On top of that, it’s got a lovely display, comfortable, customizable keyboard, a crispy webcam, and it’s got an interesting design. The only real flaw the notebook has is its weak speakers and of course, the exorbitant price, which is a shame as the Legion 9i is just a stone’s throw from perfect. Offering some more customization in terms of configurations may have allowed a more affordable entry point too.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 11/20/2024
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: PC World
Overall, the Lenovo Legion 9i is a high-performance gaming PC with an unusually good display — one with an incredible amount of brightness that can deliver a high-quality HDR gaming experience. It’s surprisingly light and compact while remaining cool to the touch. The display is a real standout feature. I often find myself noting that even many high-end gaming laptops have fairly dim displays — ones that are too dim to deliver HDR in games. The Lenovo Legion 9i delivers HDR gaming while many other gaming laptops don’t. And it’s got a great package of high-end hardware with excellent cooling.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 10/04/2024
Rating: Total score: 92%
Foreign Reviews
Source: PC Welt
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 11/27/2024
Rating: Total score: 100%
Source: Xataka
ES→ENSingle Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 03/25/2024
Rating: Total score: 90% performance: 98% display: 95% mobility: 80% workmanship: 90% ergonomy: 90%
Source: Noticias 3D
ES→ENPositive: Premium design; powerful hardware; high gaming performance; excellent display; quick charging. Negative: Average autonomy; mediocre speakers.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 03/25/2024
Source: PC Guia
PT→ENSingle Review, online available, Short, Date: 05/05/2024
Rating: Total score: 92%
Source: Techprincess IT
IT→ENPositive: Powerful hardware; high gaming performance; beautiful design.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 03/26/2024
Source: Cell Phones
VN→ENPositive: Powerful hardware; high gaming performance; beautiful design; comfortable keyboard. Negative: Small touchpad; mediocre SSD storage; noisy under loads; short battery life; expensive.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 10/23/2024
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The latest to join the Lenovo family is none other than the Lenovo Legion 9i Gen 8. In terms of its design, this model retains its signature bold, gamer-centric design, with a prominent rear protrusion that may deter content creators looking for a subtler device. The 16-inch 3.2K mini LED display is one of its standout features, offering Dolby Vision and G-Sync support for vibrant visuals and smoother gameplay. With a peak brightness of over 1,000 nits in HDR mode, the display meets the HDR 1000 standard. In regular SD mode, color accuracy improves, and the brightness remains impressive at around 664 nits. The mini-LED technology ensures deep blacks with no noticeable backlight bleeding, contributing to excellent contrast and overall picture quality. The screen’s response times are quick, though not quite at the level of OLED displays. PWM is present but operates at a high frequency, which shouldn’t be problematic for most users. On the other hand, powering this Legion 9i is Intel’s latest i9-14900HX processor from the Raptor Lake Refresh series, featuring 8 P-cores clocked up to 5.8 GHz and 16 E-cores with a base clock of 1.6 GHz. This chip is paired with the Nvidia RTX 4090 GPU and 64 GB of RAM, making it a formidable machine for gaming and demanding applications. The Nvidia RTX 4090 GPU in the Legion 9i is capable of handling the latest games at high resolutions and settings. During gaming, particularly in demanding titles like Witcher 3, the Legion 9i exhibited occasional frame rate drops, causing brief stutters, although it remained playable overall. The laptop was able to maintain over 60 fps in most games, including 4K titles, but in some of the most demanding games, such as Skull & Bones, frame rates occasionally dipped below 60 fps.
Battery performance in the Legion 9i is a mixed bag. With the power plug removed, the laptop’s multi-thread performance in benchmarks dropped significantly. The system’s high TDP under load also affects battery longevity, and the frame rate drops observed during gaming seem linked to power throttling. Overall, while the laptop performs well under sustained power, its battery life could be better, especially for gamers who need to unplug for extended sessions. The Lenovo Legion 9i Gen 8 is a high-end gaming laptop equipped with top-tier hardware, including the i9-14900HX processor and RTX 4090 GPU. It excels in display quality and gaming performance but does show some signs of performance throttling under load, particularly in CPU-bound tasks and when not plugged in. Despite these occasional hiccups, it remains a powerful option for gamers, though users seeking consistent, top-tier performance across all areas might find better value in competing models.
Hands-on article by Jagadisa Rajarathnam
NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU: High-end laptop graphics card based on the Ada Lovelace architecture. Offers 16 GB GDDR6 VRAM with a 256 Bit memory bus and can be configured with 80 - 150 TDP settings (+ Dynamic Boost).
These graphics cards are able to play the latest and most demanding games in high resolutions and full detail settings with enabled Anti-Aliasing.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
i9-14900HX: High-end mobile hybrid processor based on the Raptor Lake architecture with 24 cores and 32 threads. Clocks at a maximum of 5.8 GHz (P cores).» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
16.00":
15-inch display variants are the standard and are used for more than half of all laptops.
The reason for the popularity of mid-sized displays is that this size is reasonably easy on the eyes, often allows high resolutions and thus offers rich details on the screen, yet does not consume too much power and the devices can still be reasonably compact - simply the standard compromise.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.2.6 kg:
With this weight, a laptop is rather heavier than average. Devices in this range shine more with screen size and performance than with mobility.
Lenovo: Lenovo ("Le" from English legend, novo (Latin) for new) was founded in 1984 as a Chinese computer trading company. As of 2004, the company was the largest laptop manufacturer in China and, after acquiring IBM's PC division in 2005, the fourth largest in the world. In addition to desktops and notebooks, the company manufactures monitors, projectors, servers, etc, and specializes in developing, manufacturing and marketing consumer electronics, personal computers, software, enterprise solutions and related services.
In 2016, the company ranked first in the world in computer sales. It still held it in 2023 with about 23% global market share. Important product lines are Thinkpad, Legion and Ideapad.
In 2011, it acquired a majority stake in Medion AG, a European computer hardware manufacturer. In 2014, Motorola Mobility was purchased, which gave Lenovo a boost in the smartphone market.
90.8%: There are not very many models that are rated better. Most of the assessments are in percentage ranges below that. The tested product is not considered perfect, but the sources give a clear purchase recommendation.
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