Lenovo’s gaming side for the gaming laptop market has been ticking all the right boxes so far this year, with their Legion GO being quite a formidable rival towards their Deck rivals, so to see how their yearly refreshes would do in a competitive market nowadays, its all about the ways they could prime more power into the already beast of a powerhouse that is the Pro 5i series.
The 2025 Legion Pro 5i is powered by the latest Intel® Core™ HX processors, the Core™ Ultra 9 275HX, along with Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti as the engine of its gaming laptop. And boy does it purr well so far.
The variant features new additions that could help with heating when touched, and given its price point, I reckon they have nailed it already with this variant. With better heat to the touch and such. So how did it do?
Review Unit Spec
- Intel® Core™ Ultra 9 275HX Processor
- NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 5070Ti 12GB GDDR7
- 32GB SO-DIMM DDR5-5600 RAM
- 1TB SSD M.2 2242 PCIe® 4.0×4 NVMe®
- 16″ WQXGA (2560×1600) OLED 500nits Glossy, 100% DCI-P3, 165Hz, DisplayHDR™ True Black 1000, Dolby Vision®, G-SYNC®
- 3x USB Type-B ports, 2x Type-C USB ports (DisplayPort 2.1 support), 1 HDMI Port, 1 Ethernet Port
- Price: RM 9,360 SRP (As of 30 September)
Built Quality
The Legion brand is always about that no-fuss, clean aesthetic and its Eclipse Black does help with the design of being discreet, before opening it to reveal the keyboard and seeing the RGB colours pulsating beneath.
The OLED Screen greets you warmly, as the colours glow, its 15.1 screen with 165Hz awaits. Its first impression does well to greet the user for the first time. Though the matte finish does lead to fingerprints over time, which doesn’t look appealing at times without constant wiping of its back.
The Legion Pro 5i also adds the power of Intel® Performance Hybrid Architecture with additional e-cores that improve gaming, streaming and content creation. It lets us experience the maximum performance with Intel® Core HX Processors, the only choice for full-throttle maximum FPS gaming.
In the weight department, it’s perhaps quite weighty to some, which I would expect, considering it’s packing the latest variation of the RTX 50 Ti series within it, but 1.9 kilos is still quite acceptable for carrying in the laptop bag/ tote bag styling of the current youth, who perhaps are on their way to Uni or work.
The heat dissipation works rather well, as expected, as the majority of the heat now goes behind the laptop itself, so touching the keyboard isn’t as heated as you expect when all Legion Pro 5i power is being used, and that’s quite a plus.
The battery life is also perhaps what you expect for a gaming laptop, as viewing a 1080P 60fps video will only net you a 2 hours 30ish battery life (even less when gaming without the power plug-in), which for work on the go could be better, but I digress. Though the power adapter is a brick that’s almost the same size as an iPad Mini, it’s quite a sight to behold.
Software
As with most of the newer gaming laptops of the market right now, it runs Windows 11 (with Trusted Platform Module version 2.0 (TPM 2.0) available on the boot), and it has the usual gubbins of an Antivirus installed and Nvidia drivers ready to be updated post getting this laptop.
It has the usual ads for Microsoft stuff (Office 365 that comes with your purchase and Xbox Game Pass for 3 months), plus a basic Copilot functionality that still feels intrusive. Do I feel Windows 11 is a bit bloated? Yes. 
But there are some good stuff that Lenovo has bundled into it, like the X-Rite colour correction suite, that can colour calibrate the display to various display standards, and the Pro 5i gets the Legion Space app (which were meant for only Legion Go Devices before this), that does the fan controls and one-button overclock for the GPU, which comes with a warning beforehand.
Gaming Performance
How does the Legion Pro 5i Game?
Quite well, actually, with the combination of the RTX 5070 (with 12GB of DDR7 VRAM) and Legion Pro 5i also being powered with the Intel® Core™ HX processor, the benchmark we used on Cyberpunk 2077 is astounding, with Ray-Tracing features mostly on and still getting an average FPS count of 184 minimum.
So here are the games we tested with it:
- Cyberpunk 2077 (Update 2.31)
- Police Simulator: Patrol Officer
- Cook, Serve, Forever
- CarX Street
- PGA 2K25
- Schedule 8
- Assetto Corsa Evo (Early Access)
Both Assetto Corsa Evo and CarX Street rely on the computing power to make the most of their racing game components (traffic and AI racers on the track), so it leaves a lot of chances for the Intel® Core™ HX processor to stretch its power out a bit on Ultra settings. And for a bi-yearly sports title like PGA 2K25, it sees drastically quick loading times with the laptop’s power (and quite handy SSD).
It’s all thanks to Lenovo and Intel pushing the boundaries of your gaming and streaming with Intel processors and the dedicated Lenovo AI Engine+ powered by the LA AI Core, to make players enjoy the reduced in-game load times with DDR5 support.
As for the indie games on this list, it doesn’t need that much power to run most of my choices here, but it does feel nice to be playing them smoothly thanks to the OLED monitor.
All of these games played quite well to the touch thanks to more iterations of Lenovo’s ColdFront Hyper tech, which regulates the heat towards the back and makes sure the keyboard area isn’t too hot when gaming. But it’s still better to play video games in small sessions so as not to dry out its internal paste quickly.
Value
At a retail price of almost towards the upper limits of 9-thousand Ringgit plus, you bet this is going to last you for at least the next two generations of gaming, whenever the PlayStation 6 comes around, and will still be at the forefront of the games that will be released on the PC platform in the future. Spending that much is something you would see in a business investment, mind you, but if you’re already invested in having only gaming laptops, then might as well have something to keep you occupied, at least till 2030.
Verdict
The 10th-generation, 2025 Lenovo Legion Pro 5i is just one incredible piece of tech that showcases that Gaming Laptops could look cool and play cool too. Being the staple of the not-gamer aesthetics is going to appeal to those looking to be discreet, but who does with this much power and even higher price point?
An actual powerhouse of a laptop, this one is. And boy, can it showcase the power of video games rather well than this.
To learn more about this laptop or other Lenovo Legion products, check out the official website here!
This review unit was provided by Lenovo Malaysia.
Lenovo Legion Pro 5i (2025)
One incredible piece of tech that showcases that Gaming Laptops could look cool and play cool too. An Actual powerhouse of a Gaming Laptop.
- Build Quality 9
- Gameplay Performance 9
- Value 9