Lenovo releases 15-inch gaming laptop globally with 165 Hz OLED and 48 GB VRAM
Earlier this year, we reviewed the Legion 7a 16AGP11 with the Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 and the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 (curr. $2,199 on Amazon). Ultimately, that laptop serves as a lighter and smaller alternative to last year's Legion 7i 16IAX10 with better battery life too. Additionally, Lenovo is now selling the Legion 7a 15ASH11 in Canada and the US, having already released the laptop across Australia, Europe, East Asia and Southeast Asia in the last few months.
Visually, the Legion 7a 15ASH11 eschews the built-in numberpad found on its 16-inch counterparts. The 15-inch model also has a centred trackpad in contrast to other recent Legion 7 gaming laptops. Moreover, the Legion 7a 15ASH11 is much lighter than the Legion 7a 16AGP11 at 1.55 kg versus 1.8 kg.
Internally, Lenovo's new 15-inch gaming laptop does away with a discrete GPU entirely. Instead, the Legion 7a 15ASH11 relies upon AMD's Strix Halo platform in the form of the Ryzen AI Max+ 388 and Ryzen AI Max+ 392. While both contain the Radeon 8060S iGPU, the Ryzen AI Max+ 392 should be significantly more powerful thanks to its extra CPU cores and CPU threads.
It is worth noting too that Lenovo only includes 64 GB of RAM with the Ryzen AI Max+ 392. As a result, one can only assign up to 48 GB VRAM on this model. In comparison, the Ryzen AI Max+ 388 and its 32 GB of RAM can only dedicate 24 GB VRAM to the Radeon 8060S. Setting that aside, both APUs ship with an 84 Wh battery, 180 W charging via USB Type-C and a 2.5K OLED display with 1,100 nits peak brightness (HDR) and a 165 Hz refresh rate.
Pricing starts at CAD 3,660 and $2,631 in Canada and the US, respectively. For these prices, Lenovo includes the Ryzen AI Max+ 388, 32 GB of RAM and a 1 TB SSD. Selecting the Ryzen AI Max+ 392 with 64 GB of RAM pushes the Legion 7a 15ASH11 to CAD 4,960 and $3,561, though. Please see Lenovo's website for more details.
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