Lenovo’s 2023 gaming laptops will get face tracking and ‘AI chip’ for more fps
Lenovo has equipped its gaming laptops for 2023 with new hardware and an ‘AI chip’, which should increase the maximum consumption for better performance. The laptops can optionally be equipped with eye tracking from Tobii.
Lenovo is giving all of its Legion laptops a refresh, with a slightly modified look, but the main changes are on the inside. The Legion Pro 7 and Pro 5 laptops will be equipped with new hardware from Intel’s thirteenth generation, or AMD’s 7000 series. In all cases it concerns ‘HX’ processors, with a tdp of 55W.
Lenovo Legion Pro 7i
The video cards in the laptops are, as far as announced, only coming from Nvidia. These are video cards from Nvidia’s recently announced RTX40 series. Lenovo lists the maximum power at which the company configures the video cards with all video cards. Lenovo opts for the maximum power allowed by Nvidia, including 25W dynamic boost clock.
To further increase the performance, the laptops are equipped with a ‘Lenovo LA AI chip’. Lenovo is not very clear about the exact operation, but the chip must ensure that the CPU and GPU communicate better in order to achieve higher frame rates. It seems that the chip should ensure that some extra power goes to the CPU during gaming if it is the limiting factor in a game, or to the GPU if the limit is there.
The laptops are also equipped with Tobii Horizon, a system that uses eye and face tracking to convert movements of your face into movements in games.
Lenovo Legion Pro 5
| Core i9-13900HX, Core i7-13700HX | AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX |
| RTX 4090 (175W), RTX 4080 (175W), RTX 4070 (140W) | RTX 4090 (175W), RTX 4080 (175W) |
| 2560×1600, 240Hz, 500cd/m², G-Sync | 2560×1600, 240Hz, 500cd/m², G-Sync, FreeSync |
| max. 32GB DDR5-6000 | |
| max. 2x1TB | |
The Legion 7 Pro will be equipped with 16″ screens and will also receive working memory that is overclocked to 6000MT/s. The Legion Pro 7i will be available in February for 2500 euros. The Legion Pro 7 with AMD processors will be available in April for 2700 euros. It is not yet known which configurations will become available.
| Core i9-13900HX, Core i7-13700HX, Core i7-13500HX | AMD Ryzen 9 7845HX, Ryzen 7 7745HX, Ryzen 5 7645HX |
| RTX 4070 (140W), RTX 4060 (140W), RTX 4050 (140W), RTX 3050 (95W) | |
| 2560×1600, 240Hz, 500cd/m², G-Sync Advanced Optimus / 2560×1500, 165Hz, 300cd/m², G-Sync Advanced Optimus | 2560×1600, 240Hz, 500cd/m², G-Sync / 2560×1600, 165Hz, 300cd/m², G-Sync |
| max. 32GB DDR5-5600 | |
| max. 2x1TB | |
The Legion Pro 5i will be available in March for 1900 euros. The AMD version has the same starting price, but comes a month later, in April. Here too it is not yet known which exact configurations Lenovo will deliver.