Lenovo Legion 7i – the best gaming notebook of 2020?

Display tests

Lenovo Legion is no longer a start-up brand, quite the contrary. In recent years, it has gained a strong position among gaming brands such as Asus, MSI and Gigabyte. This is mainly due to gaming tournaments, where we see Legion quite often, but especially on the gaming laptop market. The new flagship Legion 7i must not only resume where its great predecessor left off, but also beat strong competition.

Gamut, brightness and color difference

We measured the image properties of the display using the Datacolor Spyder5Elite color analyzer. The display is one of the key features of gaming laptops for a full travel experience. The last laptops had either 4K 60 Hz displays with great colors, or fast Full HD panels, where the colors were not bad, but it was not the very top. G-Sync has also somehow disappeared from the pieces we’ve tested recently.

The Legion 7i offers perhaps the best solution in the display area we tested in 2020. 144 Hz is more than enough to play games and although we’ve also had a 300 Hz display here, in reality such FPS will be quite difficult to achieve, especially for AAA titles. Conversely, image smoothing technology would be more useful than unreasonably high FPS, and Legion therefore offers G-Sync. You can say that it will be a kind of average fast gaming panel, which is not suitable for graphic work. The opposite is true. 100% AdobeRGB support, 500-nit brightness and DisplayHDR 400 are parameters you won’t find easily in gaming notebooks.

We’ve more or less confirmed the specs stated by the manufacturer. 100% sRGB, 100% AdobeRGB, 98% DCI-P3 and 100% NTSC are really great values. Gamma 2.1 with a slight deviation, relatively good color uniformity and backlight, and brightness of 418 nits are also respectable values. The average color difference of Delta-E with a value of 1.68 is also great.

The paper specs and the real measured results are really great and the display is one of the best we’ve had here and I’m not afraid to even say that it could be the best gaming display ever.

To make matters better, the manufacturer also offers the X-Rite Color Assistant application to control the display and color profiles, where you can choose from several dedicated color profiles.

• Contents
• Specs and details
• Testing methodology
• Display tests
• Rendering and Geekbench
• 3D/PCMark and Unigine Heaven/Superposition
• Gaming tests – dedicated GPU
• Encryption, encoding
• Memory and storage tests
• Temperatures and battery life
• Blender – test of CPU, CUDA and Optix
• Performance modes
• Utility app
• Rating

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