This week Lenovo did a teaser announcement stating that their next affordable Lenovo Legion gaming laptop in China will Nvidia’s latest generation RTX 4050 GPU, but it seems that the brand decided to share more details of the upcoming gaming laptop, including an option for buyers to upgrade to an RTX 4060 as well.
The announcement comes from the official Lenovo Legion Weibo account in China, as they announce that the upcoming Lenovo Legion Geek Pro G5000 will feature an option for buyers to upgrade to an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 GPU that has a max TDP of 115W. Previously it was announced that the Legion laptop will arrive in a base model that has RTX 4050 with a max TDP of 95W, so giving consumers the option to upgrade to a better configuration is a commonplace market practice.
As for the details of the 115W RTX 4060 GPU in Lenovo’s upcoming Legion Geek Pro G5000, the company shared that the GPU will have 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM, support for the AV1 video-encoding codec, and Nvidia’s DLSS 3.0 graphics technology.
The company also shared some performance benchmarks, namely 3DMark Time Spy Benchmarks, of the RTX 4060 running on the affordable gaming laptop. It can be seen that the RTX 4060 has extraordinary power efficiency, as with only 45W of power, less than 40% of the max TDP of 115W, the RTX 4060 GPU can already pump out 70% of its max achievable performance.
Besides the GPU, ITHome quoted that Lenovo has stated that the Legion Geek Pro G5000 will be powered by Intel’s 13th Gen Core i5 processors, equipped with a 15.6-inch screen, 16:9 ratio, 2560 x 1440 resolution, 165 Hz refresh rate, 100% sRGB coverage of the colour gamut, and 350 nits of brightness. The Lenovo GeekPro G5000 series of gaming notebooks will arrive with 1 TB of onboard SSDs, and an additional M.2 slot for those who want to expand their storage more.
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