Lenovo releases new 15-inch compact gaming laptop with 1,000 nit OLED display in the US
Towards the end of last month, Lenovo released its new Legion 5i across multiple markets, including Australia, East Asia, Southeast Asia and Europe. Now, the company has followed up by bringing that same laptop to North America, albeit in a limited form for the time being.
For context, the new Legion 5i 15IAX11 replaces Lenovo's Raptor Lake-based model we reviewed in October 2025 (curr. $1,735 on Amazon). However, Lenovo's Gen 11 model departs from its predecessor in several areas. For instance, the Legion 5i 15IAX11 is around 10 mm shorter than Lenovo's Gen 10 model. Also, the new Legion 5 is between 5% and 16% thinner, depending on how you cut it.
Nonetheless, this year's model contains a larger OLED display. Now spanning 15.3-inches, the glossy display outputs at 2,560 x 1,600 pixels with a 165 Hz refresh rate and 1,000 nits peak brightness in HDR mode, or 500 nits when viewing SDR content. Moreover, Lenovo includes an 80 Wh battery as standard with M.2 2242 (PCIe 5.0) and M.2 2280 (PCIe 4.0) SSD slots. The Legion 5i 15IAX11 supports up to 32 GB of DDR5-5600 RAM too, although only 16 GB can be configured in the US at the moment.
Additionally, Lenovo limits the gaming laptop to a Core Ultra 7 251HX processor, a 3 nm processor that contains four more efficiency cores and two fewer threads than the Core i7-13650HX in the Gen 10 model we reviewed. Currently, Lenovo charges $2,959 for the Legion 5i 15IAX11 with a GeForce RTX 5060 laptop GPU featuring the same 115 W TGP as its predecessor. GeForce RTX 5070 12 GB and Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus options should be available later in 2026.
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