In recent months, a small revolution has begun in the world
of laptops. NVIDIA's RTX 3000 video cards have arrived , as have Intel Tiger
Lake CPUs , not to mention late 2020, which saw the launch of Ryzen 5000
processors for notebooks . The sector is in full swing and, in this context, we
cannot fail to mention the new Lenovo Legion 5 Pro , a laptop that immediately
made headlines thanks to very interesting specifications. At a time like this,
when building fixed gaming setups is a problem due to GPU scarcity, there are
not a few enthusiasts who are turning to laptops as a gaming alternative .
These products are now mature and offer considerable power,
which is why we decided to compare two different systems equipped with the same
GPU, an RTX 3070, to understand how far you can go with the performance in the
game of the moment, Resident Evil Village. The first is Lenovo's aforementioned
Legion Pro 5, equipped with a 140W RTX 3070, one of the most powerful
available. The second is instead a mini PC made on the basis of the NZXT H1
case, equipped with a desktop-class RTX 3070.
Two worlds compared
The challenge between the two contenders is obviously
unequal, despite the compact size of the PC that we have built, the power
inside is considerable and must not be subject to the energy and dissipation
limits that characterize a notebook. However, the comparison remains
interesting for two reasons. The first is to understand the performance of a
modern gaming laptop with a prominent title like Resident Evil Village, the
second is to understand the difference between the performance of a RTX 3070
Founders Edition and the same model but with a 140 TGP. W. This year NVIDIA has
dramatically expanded the offer of GPUs, so much so that today there are more
variants of RTX 3060, RTX 3070 and RTX 3080 dedicated to laptops, which differ
according to the TGP.
The TGP is an abbreviation that indicates the Total Graphic
Power, or the consumption of the card at full load. In the case of the RTX 3070
there are models with TGP that can even go down to 85 W, if we think that the
desktop class RTX 3070 has a TGP of 220 W, the difference in performance can
become noticeable, despite the fact that the two cards have the same number of
calculation unit.
Under this front the Lenovo Legion 5 Pro is an even more
interesting laptop, because it mounts a 140 W RTX 3070 , the most powerful
available today, and which managed to run Resident Evil Village with a truly
remarkable yield.
It is also played to the fullest on notebooks
Lenovo has created a high-end notebook but with an eye to
the price, of 1999 €. A figure certainly high but adequate to the
specifications of the laptop, based on Ryzen 7 5800H processor at 7 nm, with 8
cores, 16 threads and a peak frequency of 4.4 GHz. Very particular is the
16-inch screen with a resolution of 2560x1600 pixels and aspect ratio of 16:10.
This is a particular format for a gaming notebook and which has not given us
problems with any of the other titles tested. Resident Evil Village, however,
adds small black bands at the top and bottom, to adapt the scene to this
format, they do not bother but the developers should have provided a special
mode for 16:10, also because there are many gaming notebooks in arrival that
use this aspect ratio.
The screen is also characterized by a refresh rate of 165 Hz
and HDR400 certification, it is also compatible with the G-Sync and Freesync
standards. Lenovo is one of the few companies to offer Dolby Vision
certification on a laptop , which is no small advantage if you often watch streaming
video content. The sample we are testing is equipped with 16 GB of RAM and a 1
TB PCie NVMe SSD.
To measure the performance of the Legion 5 Pro we used the
same test scenario used in the special on Resident Evil Village and Radeon 6900
XT , so we started from the church and did the same route inside the village.
Lenovo's notebook did score a solid frame rate, despite the settings at maximum
and the presence of active ray tracing we measured an average 81 fps. This data
is important, because it is obtained from a laptop and without the aid of DLSS
and at a resolution of 2560x1600 pixels, which offers a higher quality than the
simple Full HD , often used in gaming notebooks.
During the test the GPU reached 80 degrees, we are not faced
with a stress test of course, that we will do in the review, but it is a value
similar to that obtained with our RTX 3070 Founders Edition. By turning off the
Ray Tracing instead, the frame rate rises to 131 fps, thus managing to exploit
the 165 Hz of the monitor almost to the end.
The mini PC used for the test (with Ryzen 7 5800X processor
and RTX 3070 FE) instead reached 108 fps with Ray Tracing and 181 without,
naturally higher values given the difference in the operating frequency between
the two GPUs. The reduced TGP brings the clock of the RTX 3070 for notebooks to
around 1700 MHz peak, while the desktop variant reaches 2010 MHz. The extra 300
MHz makes the difference, but the fact remains thatthe performance of the
Legion Pro 5 with Resident Evil is excellent and can satisfy even the finest
palates, confirming that the 140 W RTX 3070 mounted inside it is worth the
price of the ticket.
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