Lenovo Legion Pro 7 (16″, 2023) – Top 5 Pros and Cons

Lenovo’s Legion gaming laptops went through a bit of restructuring, as the Legion 7 is no more, being replaced by the Legion Pro 7. All in all, we welcome the change, as this way, the Legion 5 Pro doesn’t step on the toes of the Legion 7. Now the hierarchy is clear, as the most powerful components are saved for the Legion Pro 7, including the 175W RTX 4080 and RTX 4090. Contrasting the bigger 18-inch devices that are popping up, the Legion 7 Pro is keeping itself more portable, with a 16-inch screen. The laptop comes with goodies inside the box, including extra keycaps and mechanisms for the keyboard.

Today we’re presenting you with LaptopMedia’s top 5 picks about the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 (16″, 2023).

Lenovo Legion Pro 7 (16″, 2023): Full Specs / In-depth Review


4 reasons to BUY the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 (16″, 2023)

1. Cooling

The laptop is cooled by a vapor chamber, while the CPU and GPU get the liquid metal treatment.


Max CPU load

Average P-core frequency; Average E-core frequency; CPU temp.; Package Power

Intel Core i9-13900HX (55W TDP)0:02 – 0:10 sec0:15 – 0:30 sec10:00 – 15:00 min
Lenovo Legion Pro 7 (16″, 2023)3.61 GHz @ 3.05 GHz @ 84°C @ 171W3.42 GHz @ 2.88 GHz @ 86°C @ 148W3.29 GHz @ 2.81 GHz @ 87°C @ 137W

The cooling solution allows the CPU to maintain very high wattages. Lenovo is also doing something different than other manufacturers, giving the high number of E-cores space to clock highly.

Real-life gaming

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080GPU frequency/ Core temp (after 2 min)GPU frequency/ Core temp (after 30 min)
Lenovo Legion Pro 7 (16″, 2023)2452 MHz @ 77°C @ 174W2455 MHz @ 77°C @ 174W
MSI Raider GE78 HX (13VX)2418 MHz @ 74°C @ 173W2415 MHz @ 76°C @ 173W

Compared to the MSI Raider GE78, which brings the same 175W RTX 4080, the Legion Pro 7 generates slightly higher clock speeds as well as maintains 1W higher wattage.

Comfort during full load

The chassis of the laptop doesn’t seem to be very well insulated, as we see a base hotspot of 50.7°C. However, it’s very concentrated, so most f the keyboard remains around the 40°C range. Sadly, there is a fair bit of noise coming off from the device, which will get annoying.

 

2. Display quality

The Legion Pro 7 comes with a QHD+ IPS panel with a 240Hz refresh rate. The panel is great for both gaming and Creator work, offering a peak brightness of 552 nits as well as covering 98% of the sRGB gamut and 80% of the DCI-P3 gamut. The laptop also has a pretty fast response time of 8.9 ms.

The color accuracy of the display is a bit off with the stock settings, resulting in a dE value of 3.1 while applying our Design and Gaming profile makes the dE value drop down to 1.0. Here are the results of our test in the factory condition (left) as well as with our profile applied (right).


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Since our profiles are tailored for each individual display model, this article and its respective profile package are meant for Lenovo Legion Pro 7 (16″, 2023) configuration with 16.0″ MNG007DA2-3 (CSO1628) (2560×1600) IPS.

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Praca biurowa

Office Work powinien być używany głównie przez użytkowników, którzy spędzają większość czasu patrząc na fragmenty tekstu, tabele lub po prostu surfując. Profil ten ma na celu zapewnienie lepszej wyrazistości i jasności poprzez utrzymanie płaskiej krzywej gamma (2.20), natywnej temperatury barwowej i percepcyjnie wiernych kolorów.

Projektowanie i gry

Profil ten skierowany jest do projektantów, którzy zawodowo zajmują się kolorystyką, a także do gier i filmów. Design and Gaming wykorzystuje panele wyświetlaczy do granic ich możliwości, czyniąc je tak dokładnymi, jak to tylko możliwe w standardzie sRGB IEC61966-2-1 dla stron internetowych i HDTV, przy punkcie bieli D65.

Health-Guard

Health-Guard eliminuje szkodliwą modulację szerokości impulsu (PWM) i redukuje negatywne niebieskie światło, które wpływa na nasze oczy i ciało. Ponieważ jest on dostosowany do każdego panelu, udaje mu się zachować percepcyjnie dokładne kolory. Health-Guard symuluje papier, dzięki czemu nacisk na oczy jest znacznie zredukowany.

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3. Upgradeability

The laptop offers very good upgradeability, with two SODIMM slots for DDR5 RAM as well as two M.2 slots for Gen 4 SSDs. All slots are hidden behind metal brackets, which offer additional benefits, acting as heatsinks for the chips.

Here is our detailed teardown video, which shows how to access the insides of the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 (16″, 2023).


4. I/O

The laptop has a generally good port selection, including a total of four USB Type-A 3.2 (Gen. 1) ports, one USB Type-C 3.2 (Gen. 2) port, and one Thunderbolt 4 port. Other ports include an HDMI 2.1 connector, a LAN port, and a 3.5 mm audio jack. Sadly, there’s no SD card reader, however, other competitors in the space don’t bring one as well, so we’re willing to give it a pass.


1 reason NOT to buy the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 (16″, 2023)

1. Battery life

Despite the large 99.99Wh battery pack, the laptop lasts for only 6 hours and 40 minutes of Web browsing, or 5 hours and 58 minutes of video playback. Compared to the MSI Raider GE78 HX and the ASUS Strix SCAR 18, it’s worse. Now, we conduct the battery tests with the Windows Better performance setting turned on, screen brightness adjusted to 120 nits and all other programs turned off except for the one we are testing the notebook with.

W celu symulacji warunków rzeczywistych, wykorzystaliśmy własny skrypt do automatycznego przeglądania ponad 70 stron internetowych.

W każdym takim teście używamy tego samego filmu w jakości HD.


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