Deal | The excellent Lenovo Legion 5 gaming laptop with RTX 5070 GPU and 165 Hz OLED display drops by $839 on official store

Finding an attractive gaming laptop deal can be quite challenging nowadays, courtesy of the skyrocketing DRAM and storage prices. However, finding well-equipped laptops at all-time low prices is still possible, contingent on one looking hard enough.

For instance, the GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop-powered Lenovo Legion 5 gaming laptop is currently a whopping 41% off on Lenovo's official website, bringing its price down to just $1,194.99. In order to take full advantage, interested customers are requested to utilize the coupons "BUYMORELENOVO" and "EXTRAFIVE" during checkout.

Legion 5: Zen 5 "Krackan Point" combined with Nvidia Blackwell

The Legion 5 is powered by the capable 8-core, 16-thread AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 "Krackan Point" APU. The Zen 5-based chip manages impressive multi-core performance, trading blows with the Intel Core Ultra 7 255H and Apple M3 Pro in synthetic benchmarks, such as Cinebench 2024. 

Even though benchmarks are not entirely representative of real-world performance, it would be safe to state that the Legion 5 gaming laptop should be able to handle the majority of CPU-intensive workloads sent its way.

Our in-depth review of the Legion 5 with a slower processor and GPU revealed perfectly admirable sustained performance, courtesy of the gaming laptop's potent cooling setup. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU with 8 GB of GDDR7 VRAM should be a great choice for moderately intensive gaming, although the VRAM might be a limiting factor as AAA titles continue getting more memory intensive than ever. The I/O on offer is as follows:

• USB4 (DP 2.1, PD 3.0), USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C (DP 1.4)
• Triple USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A
• HDMI 2.1
• 1G Ethernet
• 3.5 mm audio

15-inch OLED display with excellent color reproduction

The Legion 5's OLED display left no room for complaint, which is quite typical for premium gamers from the brand. The gaming laptop's 15-inch 2560 x 1600 display covers 99.9% of the DCI-P3 color gamut according to our detailed review, and peaks at around 1,000 nits of brightness in HDR mode. 

All the native benefits of OLED panels are also present, such as near-instant response times, inky blacks, and lack of blooming. At 165 Hz, the panel is plenty fast for competitive gaming on the go.

At its current discounted price on Lenovo's official website, there is no doubt that the Legion 5 15 gaming laptop is an excellent choice. The laptop ships with 16 GB of DDR5-5600 memory and 1 TB storage (Crucial T310 curr. $165 on Amazon), both of which can be upgraded down the road. Customers can also customize their build, should they prefer more memory or storage.

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