Lenovo Legion Y920 Series

Processor: Intel Kaby Lake i7-7700HQ, Intel Kaby Lake i7-7820HK
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
Display: 17.30 inch
Weight: 4.4kg, 4.426kg, 4.5kg, 4.6kg
Price: 2700 euro
price: 80%, performance: 97%, features: 71%, display: 94%, mobility: 74%, workmanship: 81%, ergonomy: 78%, emissions: 69%

 

Lenovo Legion Y920

Usually the Lenovo branding is synonymous with the Think lineup of business notebooks from the bygone days of IBM when it was first produced. However, Lenovo has recently tried to penetrate the consumer gaming notebook market with its Y series. The prelude to this is the design Lenovo has decided to go with. It is a sleek business-esque design of Lenovo's Thinkpad series of notebooks which retains the gamery feel and look of most notebooks of its class. In terms of chassis and material the Legion Y920 is mainly a mix of both plastic and metal. Lid and undercarriage are made out of brushed aluminium, in which most of us have gotten used to. This allows the notebook to maintain a reasonable amount of rigidity without being too heavy due to its large size of 17-inch. Overall the chassis is well constructed with no flex. Naturally all this means nothing if it isn’t packing power. The Legion Y920 is powered by an Intel Core i7-7820HK processor with 48 GB of RAM, which is whoppingly plentiful by all regards, a 1 TB SSD, an additional 1 TB hard disk for storage, and last but not least the Nvidia Geforce GTX 1070, which provides the needed graphics horsepower to run games if not media creation software. While Nvidia has recently touted the Max-Q design for even slimmer gaming notebooks, it seems that Lenovo has not decided to go down that route. It is a 17-inch model, which means it straddles in between being somewhat portable and still powerful enough to deliver without compromising. However, it should be noted that a notebook of a similar class in the 15.6-inch category can already deliver this performance without adding unnecessary weight. Regarding connectivity, the Legion 920 has 4 USB 3 ports, 1 USB type C Thunderbolt port, a single HDMI and lastly a full sized DisplayPort. While the IO is certainly impressive it is somewhat lackluster for its size in view of the fact that some competitors are actually offer 2 instead of only one USB-C port and even more so for a notebook of this size. This is not to say it is bad but just somewhat stingy on Lenovo’s end. Regardless, it is still better than not having any USB type C ports. Going over to user inputs Lenovo has actually made a point to differentiate itself from its competitors by providing a mechanical based keyboard and a low profile version, which reduces its thickness significantly when compared to what MSI or even Gigabyte are offering in similarly sized notebooks. According to Lenovo the included low profile mechanical switches are of the Cherry MX designs although this leaves a little bit of skepticism as Cherry MX doesn’t have a low profile mechanical switch for its normal lineup of keyboard. Perhaps this is a custom design made specifically for the Legion Y920. The typing experience is somewhat indifferent as the keys feel a little hard to push and as if one has to bottom out the keys to actually register an input, which is definitely different from your standard mechanical switches. Nonetheless, users can type reasonably fast due to the nature of mechanical switches in general. Obviously, as this is still a mechanical switch, typing can be a little noisy, but at the end of the day it won’t leave you frustrated when compared to a membrane keyboard. In addition to the standard keyboard layout the Legion Y920 also has four customizable macro keys. Although it should be a given, it should be mentioned that the keyboard is also RGB backlit enabled with customization done through the Lenovo Sense app. Next in line would be the clickpad. While it feels nice to glide on the quality feels a little plasticky. It is also reasonably smooth and clicks provide a good amount of feedback. As with most gaming notebooks, it is the display that makes or breaks the experience. In this case, it somewhat straddles in between both. The included 17.3-inch IPS panel is only FHD. This should still be usable, although this leaves 4K a little more desired on a notebook of this size. The display features a 75 Hz refresh rate and is G-Sync certified, which makes it a great pairing with the Geforce graphics card. One significant gripe is the anti-glare finish of the display, which is a little too reflective when used in a bright room setting. However, this this shouldn’t be a significant issue. While not necessary for a notebook of this class, battery life is about where users should expect it with the Legion Y920 clocking in at 3 hours 40 minutes on Wi-Fi and 1 hour 40 minutes when gaming. If you are looking for a gaming notebook which doesn’t put out too much flair, but still delivers the expected performance the Legion Y920 might be worthwhile consideration. Hands-on article by Jagadisa Rajarathnam

Specifications

Notebook: Lenovo Legion Y920
Processor: Intel Kaby Lake i7-7820HK
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
Display: 17.30 inch, 16:9, 1920 x 1080 pixels
Weight: 4.6kg
Links: Lenovo homepage

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Average Score: 76.67% - good

 

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Lenovo Legion Y920-17IKB

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Notebook: Lenovo Legion Y920-17IKB
Processor: Intel Kaby Lake i7-7820HK
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile 8192 MB
Display: 17.30 inch, 16:9, 1920 x 1080 pixels
Weight: 4.426kg
Price: 2700 euro
Links: Lenovo homepage

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Average Score: 85% - good

 

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Lenovo Legion Y920-17IKB 80YW0009RK

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Notebook: Lenovo Legion Y920-17IKB 80YW0009RK
Processor: Intel Kaby Lake i7-7700HQ
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
Display: 17.30 inch, 16:9, 1920 x 1080 pixels
Weight: 4.4kg
Links: Lenovo homepage

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Lenovo Legion Y920-80YW001DGE

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Notebook: Lenovo Legion Y920-80YW001DGE
Processor: Intel Kaby Lake i7-7820HK
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
Display: 17.30 inch, 16:9, 1920 x 1080 pixels
Weight: 4.5kg
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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.

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With these GPUs you are able to play modern and demanding games fluently at medium detail settings and HD resolution.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile: Pascal based high-end mobile graphics card based on a cut down GP104 (like the GTX 1080) and GDDR5 graphics memory. Successor to the GTX 980M with a 10 Watts higher TDP. Similar to the desktop GTX 1070 performance wise, but with more shaders and lower clock speeds.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.

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Intel Kaby Lake:

i7-7820HK: Quad-core notebook processor based on the Kaby Lake architecture running at 2.9 - 3.9 GHz. It is the second fastest model of the consumer H-series in the beginning of 2017. The chip also integrates the HD Graphics 630 GPU clocked at 350 - 1100 MHz and is manufactured in a 14 nm process (improved compared to Skylake). Compared to the Core i7-7820HQ, the 7820HK lacks business features like vPro or TXT support.

i7-7700HQ: Quad-core notebook processor based on the Kaby Lake architecture. Besides four CPU cores (including Hyper Threading), the chips also integrates the HD Graphics 630 GPU and is manufactured in an improved 14 nm process.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

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» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.

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4.4 kg:

A laptop with this weight is comparatively heavy and less designed for mobility than for use at the desk. Therefore, the devices tend to shine less with battery life than with a large screen and higher performance.

4.6 kg:

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82.01%: This rating is slightly above average, there are somewhat more devices with worse ratings. However, clear purchase recommendations look different.

» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.

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