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On the occasion of the IFA in Berlin, Lenovo announced the high-performance gaming notebook Legion 9i for October. It combines the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 graphics chip with the Intel Core i9-13980HX processor, liquid cooling and a 16-inch display with up to 165 Hertz.
Thanks to a housing made of “forged” carbon material, the device’s weight of 2.56 kilograms remains moderate in relation to the equipment. The Legion 9i has a 100 watt hour battery and Lenovo supplies two power adapters, one with a USB-C connection and 140 watts and one with 330 watts. The full gaming performance should only be available with the latter, because Lenovo states up to 230 watts of electrical power under load.
The built-in display in 16:10 format shows 3200 x 2000 pixels and, thanks to the mini-LED backlight, should be extremely bright (1200 nits) and show high contrast (DisplayHDR 1000). The display has a built-in color calibration function and fully covers both AdobeGRP and DCI-P3. The color space can be switched using the X-Rite software. External monitors can be connected via HDMI 2.1 or Thunderbolt 4 (2 sockets).
The Core i9-13980HX has 8 P and 16 E cores and clocks at up to 5.6 GHz. Lenovo installs 64 GB of DDR5 RAM that can be overclocked. The graphics chip controls 16 GB of GDDR6 RAM. There is space for two M.2 SSDs with PCIe 4.0 in the device, with a capacity of 2 TB fitted ex works.
The Legion 9i should optionally transmit via Wi-Fi 7 and transmit up to 6.5 Gbit/s. The MediaTek Filogic 380 is then used as a WLAN adapter. Wi-Fi 6E is built in by default (Intel “killer” adapter). The mobile computer also has an Ethernet adapter (RJ45 socket).
View of the open Lenovo Legion 9i gaming notebook.
(Image: Lenovo)
AI Optimizations
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According to Lenovo, the speeds of the three fans of the “Coldfront” cooling system for CPU, GPU and graphics memory developed together with Cooler Master were “optimized by AI”. In addition, Lenovo is building in an AI controller called LA2 that “works directly with the display [verbunden ist]’to track frames per second’ and ‘automatically adjust GPU and CPU performance’ – whatever that means. The Lenovo LA2 also controls the colorful RGB lighting.
The Lenovo Legion 9i should be available from 4999 euros, Lenovo sells matching backpacks from 50 euros.
(ciw)