Lenovo Legion 5 Gen 6 15 (2021) Review

The Lenovo Legion 5 is available with the following dedicated GPUs:

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 is an entry-level GPU that can push around 60 fps at 1080p with low settings. The RTX 3050 is faster than the GTX 1650 and will let you run graphically demanding games at high settings while still maintaining around 60 fps or slightly more. The RTX 3050Ti performs only about 10% better than the RTX 3050 on average; however, the RTX 3060 is much faster, giving you a 35% to 40% performance boost over the RTX 3050. The RTX 3070 is the top-end configuration and will give you roughly a 15% performance increase over the RTX 3060 on average, though it can be more in VRAM-heavy scenarios. Finally, the AMD Radeon RX 6600M is roughly equivalent to the RTX 3060; it'll perform a little better or worse depending on each game's optimization.

The NVIDIA RTX GPUs support DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) and ray-tracing. DLSS helps increase the frame rate by rendering the game at a lower resolution and subsequently using temporal upscaling to minimize any loss in visual quality. However, it's more effective at higher resolutions, and its performance depends heavily on each game's implementation, meaning you may see only a small increase in frame rate at 1080p or none at all when enabled. As for ray-tracing, it isn't worth enabling on an RTX 3050 and 3050Ti because it has a high performance cost and will cause the frame rate to drop too low. It may be worth it on the RTX 3060 and 3070, but only if you use DLSS to make up for the performance loss. The AMD Radeon RX 6600M has a similar DLSS-like feature called FSR and supports ray-tracing as well. If you want an NVIDIA 40-series laptop with Frame Generation support, check out the Lenovo Legion Pro 5 Gen 8 16 (2023).

There's a MUX (multiplexer) switch to allow the GPU to send information directly to the display without going through the integrated GPU, meaning you'll see dramatically better performance than on laptops that lack this feature. The performance difference can be anywhere from 10% to 25%, or more in some cases.