Lenovo’s flagship 16-inch gaming laptop comes in both Intel and AMD flavors. The Intel version tested in October 2021—the Legion 7i Gen 6—is a real barnburner, producing some of the best gaming benchmarks we’ve seen from any notebook. The AMD-powered Legion 7 Gen 6 (minus the i) reviewed here isn’t quite as fast and misses out on Nvidia G-Sync and Thunderbolt 4 without colossal cost savings—it starts at the same $1,439, though at $2,649 our test configuration is some $600 under the 7i we tested. But it’s still an exceptional performer, and more than doubles the Intel laptop’s battery life to ultimately be the more practical of the two. The Legion 7 Gen 6 claims our Editors’ Choice award among deluxe 16-inch gaming laptops.
Lenovo Legion 7 Gen 6 (AMD)
PROS Top-notch gaming performance. Vivid 165Hz display. Comfortable keyboard and touchpad. Configurable RGB lighting. Reasonable battery life.
CONS Lacks the Thunderbolt 4 and Nvidia G-Sync of the Intel version. Can’t quite match the latter’s frame rates. PCI Express Gen 3, not Gen 4, SSD.
BOTTOM LINE The Intel version of Lenovo’s deluxe 16-inch gaming laptop is richer in features, but this AMD Ryzen-based Legion is an excellent performer that gets much better battery life.
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