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

3D/PCMark and Unigine Heaven/Superposition

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.

3D/PCMark and Unigine Heaven/Superposition

The combined PCMark 10 test shows Legion dominating with a 16% win over MSI, 23% over the OMEN and up to 29% over Asus. As it is a long, 20–40 minute test, the cooling, which is very good in the 7i, certainly weighed here.




Gaming-oriented 3DMark Firestrike, Time Spy and Sky Diver confirm the dominance of the Legion from PCMark. In Firestrike it is only a hair faster than the M15, but has already won by 2 and 11% against MSI and OMEN. In Time Spy, the differences are larger, 2/6/20% against Asus/MSI/OMEN. Sky Diver, as the least demanding test of the three, surprisingly shows even bigger differences. MSI loses by only 2%, but OMEN by up to 25, and Asus, which the test didn’t favor at all, by even 81%.






Tests focused on RTX and DLSS again show measurable differences between the Legion 7i and the competition. In Port Royal, the Legion is 5% faster than MSI and by up to 21% than OMEN. In DLSS 1 tests, Legion closely wins against MSI in both on and off modes, namely by 4 and 6%, but in practice it is only 1–2 FPS. The newer version of DLSS 2 shows very similar results, i.e. 3/4% win against MSI and 15/17% against OMEN.



New tests have been added to 3DMark, which we will also use in the future. However, we do not yet have anything to compare the Legion with, so commentary on the results is irrelevant.



Unigine Heaven gaming tests again show higher performance of the Legion 7i against the GS66. The M15 is also doing well in this test, it’s even a bit faster than the Legion. We’re talking 3–5% in favor of Asus.



The latest graphics tests of Unigine Superposition do not change the situation. The Legion defeats both MSI and OMEN, but again we see Asus on the top, this time with 6% lead.

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  1. do not buy this laptop is given, even the hinges of the screen and lenovo does not give warranty. They do not have the solution

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