Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IRX9H
Specifications
Primary Camera: 2.1 MPix
Price comparison
Average of 7 scores (from 12 reviews)
Reviews for the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IRX9H
Power is something the 16-inch laptop doesn’t lack: the GeForce RTX 4080 and Core i9-14900HX achieved their new best results in some of our tests. The rest of the specs are likewise compelling: 32 GB of RAM, Thunderbolt 4, a bright QHD display (Dolby Vision, G-Sync, 240Hz, DCI-P3 coverage). Is this the perfect laptop for gamers and creators?
Source: Ultrabook Review
This gen9 Lenovo Legion Pro 7i is now a mature notebook and arguably one of the most interesting options in the high performance and gaming segment. With an utilitarian design and excellent ergonomics, now paired with a modern IPS display and latest-gen powerful hardware, this attracts lots of attention, especially since Lenovo prices it more aggressively than most of its rivals. But this series fails to meet the mark in two crucial areas: audio quality and especially chassis temperatures under load.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 12/06/2024
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Make Use Of
Performance is obviously the main strength of the Lenovo Legion Pro 9i Gen 9. If you’re looking for a laptop that will pull double duty as a mobile workstation during the day and a gaming powerhouse at night, you won’t find many comparable options for the price. The extra 1TB of storage included in the model I reviewed was especially welcome. The downsides are similarly predictable. It’s not the easiest laptop to carry around, and that’s before you factor in the weight of the massive power brick weighing down your bag. The battery life is also par for the course for gaming laptops, which is to say it’s largely there to keep you going when you can’t find anywhere to plug in. Even with those downsides, the Legion Pro 7i remains a fantastic laptop overall, and while the above issues are worth mentioning, they don’t hold it back. This is a great choice if you’re looking for a desktop replacement and don’t want a massive 18-inch display.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 10/16/2024
Rating: Total score: 90%
Source: Laptop Mag
Assuming you don’t plan to use the Legion Pro 7i as your travel laptop, there really isn’t much reason not to buy it. It isn’t the priciest gaming laptop out there, and you get quite the bang for your buck with an i9-14900H and RTX 4080 combo. Plus, it has some serious audio power and a fantastic display. If you need to take the Legion Pro 7i out and about, it only weighs 5.76 pounds. Sure, it may not fit in every laptop bag, but unlike its 18-inch counterparts, it should fit in most of them.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 07/19/2024
Rating: Total score: 90%
Source: PC Mag
Lenovo's Legion Pro 7i Gen 9 16 is an exceptional gaming laptop that delivers quality at nearly every turn. It steps ahead of similarly configured competitors in performance while often undercutting their pricing. All that power is packed into a quality chassis and appears on a sharp and vibrant display that keeps up with fast-paced gaming. The Legion's size and weight are a drawback, but easy to ignore considering the system is basically a highly mobile desktop. Only the lack of Thunderbolt 4, USB4, and biometrics really disappoint, but they don't keep the Legion Pro 7i Gen 9 from earning our Editors' Choice award.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 05/30/2024
Rating: Total score: 90%
Source: Laptop Media
If you need a full-blown gaming laptop that isn’t huge, the Lenovo Legion Pro 7i (16″, Gen 9) is one of the best in this category. For its 16-inch form factor, it offers a lot – top-of-the-line hardware and a capable vapor chamber cooling that is doing its job well. The Intel Core i9-14900HX can maintain 3.35 GHz for the P cores and 2.72 GHz for the E cores during max CPU loads which speaks volumes. Even some 18-inchers with the same processor can’t reach such high frequencies. The GeForce RTX 4080 is mentioned as a full-powered version by the manufacturer and it truly is because of the ~175W TGP during gaming. Luckily, the noise in “Performance” mode isn’t that high. You can hear the tons of airflow but the fans aren’t intrusively loud (but not quiet either).
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 05/09/2024
Source: Laptop Media
Support, online available, Medium, Date: 05/09/2024
Source: Hot Hardware
What’s more impressive, perhaps, is that Lenovo managed to deliver such a solid option in the gaming laptop segment while remaining price competitive, and even sliding in below some of the price points of its competitors. That’s not to say this is inexpensive laptop, with an MSRP of $2,699 as tested. However, the new Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IRX9H 16-inch gaming laptop delivers solid value in this performance class of machines. If you’re hankering for mobile gaming prowess, or need serious horsepower for content creation while still retaining some level of mobility at under 6lbs, this laptop should be in the running as one of your choices. The Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IRX9H is a solid gamer-centric laptop and we have no qualms recommending it.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 05/03/2024
Source: Ben G Kaiser
We've spent over a year with the Lenovo Legion Pro 7i. It's one of the BEST laptops for video editing. The Legion Pro 7i is durable and incredibly flexible. Here's a walk-through of the performance, features, and build quality.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 04/26/2024
Source: Ben G Kaiser
The brand new 2024 Lenovo Legion Pro 7i and 7i have been revealed at CES 2024. In this video, I'll walk you through the main differences and what to expect out of each model in regards to performance. Ultimately I want to help you make a decision between the 2024 Lenovo Legion Pro 7i and the Legion 7i.
Comparison, online available, Short, Date: 01/09/2024
Foreign Reviews
Source: PC Games
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Short, Date: 11/18/2024
Rating: Total score: 88%
Source: Tweakers
NL→ENSingle Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 11/18/2024
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Laptopmedia CN
zh-CN→ENPositive: Powerful hardware; high performance; metal case; excellent display; silent system; nice webcam; powerful hardware; comfortable keyboard. Negative: Slow USB ports; overheats while using.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 05/09/2024
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NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU: High-end graphics card for laptops based on the Ada Lovelace architecture. Offers 12 GB GDDR6 (192 Bit) and is configurable with a TGP of 60 - 150W (+ 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.2.656 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.
86.79%: This is an above-average rating. Nevertheless, it should not be forgotten that about one fifth of all tested models receive a better rating.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
