The Legion 5i and its processor are decent performers
here, with notably good results in Photoshop. As we’ve
seen before, AMD’s Ryzen 4000 processors in like-
priced machines tend to be a notch above Intel’s
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those options if you intend to do media editing on the
side. None of these machines is a specialist media
workstation, though, and ultimately the Legion 5i and
its cohort are just serviceable for these tasks. It’s all
about gaming and, as you’ll see, the AMD Ryzen chips
here cannot assert superiority on that front; gaming is
mostly about the GPUs.
Graphics tests: 3DMark measures relative graphics
muscle by rendering sequences of highly detailed,
gaming-style 3D graphics that emphasize particles and
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of systems. Both are DirectX 11 benchmarks, but Sky
Diver is more suited to midrange PCs, while Fire Strike
is more demanding and made for high-end PCs to strut
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Next up is another synthetic graphics test, this time
from Unigine Corp. Like 3DMark, the Superposition
test renders and pans through a detailed 3D scene and
measures how the system copes. In this case, it’s
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each laptop’s graphical prowess.
All the scores were strong, demonstrating capable
performance for 3D tasks and gaming. There isn’t much
separation in the results, though, so it’s hard to draw
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benchmark results do a better job of that.
The Legion 5i
and its cohort
are just
serviceable for
specialist
media tasks;
ultimately, it’s
all about
gaming.