Lenovo’s 2023 gaming laptops will get facial 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 updated look, but the most important changes are on the inside. The Legion Pro 7 and Pro 5 laptops are equipped with new hardware from Intel’s thirteenth generation, or AMD’s 7000 series. In all cases these are ‘HX’ processors, with a TDP of 55W.
Lenovo Legion Pro 7i
The video cards in the laptops are, as far as announced, only from Nvidia. These are video cards from Nvidia’s recently announced RTX40 series. Lenovo states the maximum power at which the company configures the video cards for all video cards. Lenovo chooses the maximum power allowed by Nvidia, including 25W dynamic boost clock.
To increase performance even further, the laptops are equipped with a ‘Lenovo LA AI chip’. Lenovo is not very clear about the precise operation, but the chip must ensure that the CPU and GPU communicate better 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 that is where the limit lies.
The laptops are also equipped with Tobii Horizon, a system that uses eye and facial tracking to convert facial movements 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 have RAM that is overclocked to 6000MT/s. The Legion Pro 7i will be available in February for 2,500 euros. The Legion Pro 7 with AMD processors will be available in April for 2,700 euros. become available. It is not yet known exactly 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 launched 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 supply.