•  Date Published: 04 Jul 2025
    • Intel Celeron N2840
    • Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail)
    • 15.6”, HD (1366 x 768), TN
    • 500GB HDD
    • 4GB RAM
    • 2.30 kg (5.1 lbs)

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    Lenovo G50 in-depth review

    We recently got the hold of one of the last remaining Lenovo G50-80 notebooks on the market and luckily, we had the time to test the performance of the discrete GPU - AMD Radeon R5 M330. It's an entry-level graphics card that's suitable mainly for multimedia purposes and will probably disappoint you if you are expecting good gaming performance.Still, some older games are smoothly playable at low graphic settings but games like GTA V and Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor will squeeze out the maximum from the GPU and the frames per second aren't high enough for enjoyable gameplay. While the GPU is clocked relatively high - 1030 MHz - the 64-bit DDR3 VRAM clocked at 2000 MHz (effectively) serves more as a bottleneck. Below you will see some of the synthetic benchmark tests that we've run and[...]

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