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Our best high-performance gaming laptop pick features a monstrous collection of components. The RTX 5080 is a full-strength 175 W variant, the panel is a 240 Hz OLED stunner, the Intel CPU is mega, and as our Dave found in his review, the gaming performance is simply excellent. It's one of the fastest laptops we've tested to date, yet comes wrapped in a chassis you'd actually want to show off—although it must be said, it's a pretty sizeable machine to lug around. Expensive, too, but at least it's about as fast as it gets.

Price check: Lenovo $3,199.99

Let's get the obvious things out of the way first. To start with, this isn't the cheapest RTX 5080 gaming laptop you can buy—at $2,399 on Newegg, this MSI Vector undercuts it by quite a bit—and secondly, you're only getting 1 TB of storage, which is pretty miserly for such a high-end rig. But truth be told, that's pretty much it for the downsides; everything else about this Lenovo Legion 7i is superb, and for the $2,600 Best Buy is asking, it's well worth considering.

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Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5080 mobile GPU is roughly equivalent to an RTX 5070 Ti desktop graphics card, and given that it's brilliant at 1440p and 4K gaming, you'll have no concerns over gaming performance with this laptop. The MSI Vector might seem to have the edge over the Lenovo in terms of raw frame rate, but the Legion is far more consistent, especially when it comes to minimum performance.

That's helped greatly by the fact that there's 32 GB of dual-channel DDR5-6400 and the processor is an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX, a full-fat Arrow Lake chip with eight P-cores, 16 E-cores, and a peak boost clock of 5.4 GHz.

Gaming performance

Avg FPS

1% Low FPS

Lenovo Legion 7i Pro Gen10

MSI Vector A18 HX

Gigabyte Aorus Master 16

015304560

Cyberpunk 2077 (1440p RT Ultra) Data
Product	Value
Lenovo Legion 7i Pro Gen10	44 Avg FPS, 22 1% Low FPS
MSI Vector A18 HX	45 Avg FPS, 34 1% Low FPS
Gigabyte Aorus Master 16	39 Avg FPS, 29 1% Low FPS

Avg FPS

1% Low FPS

Lenovo Legion 7i Pro Gen10

MSI Vector A18 HX

Gigabyte Aorus Master 16

0255075100

Baldur's Gate 3 (1440p Ultra) Data
Product	Value
Lenovo Legion 7i Pro Gen10	96 Avg FPS, 51 1% Low FPS
MSI Vector A18 HX	95 Avg FPS, 57 1% Low FPS
Gigabyte Aorus Master 16	82 Avg FPS, 43 1% Low FPS

Avg FPS

1% Low FPS

Lenovo Legion 7i Pro Gen10

MSI Vector A18 HX

Gigabyte Aorus Master 16

0255075100

Black Myth: Wukong benchmarking tool (1440p High) Data
Product	Value
Lenovo Legion 7i Pro Gen10	72 Avg FPS, 62 1% Low FPS
MSI Vector A18 HX	71 Avg FPS, 42 1% Low FPS
Gigabyte Aorus Master 16	84 Avg FPS, 72 1% Low FPS

Avg FPS

1% Low FPS

Lenovo Legion 7i Pro Gen10

MSI Vector A18 HX

Gigabyte Aorus Master 16

020406080

Avg FPS

1% Low FPS

Lenovo Legion 7i Pro Gen10

102

MSI Vector A18 HX

100

Gigabyte Aorus Master 16

037.575112.5150

Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition (1440p Ultra) Data
Product	Value
Lenovo Legion 7i Pro Gen10	102 Avg FPS, 67 1% Low FPS
MSI Vector A18 HX	100 Avg FPS, 20 1% Low FPS
Gigabyte Aorus Master 16	89 Avg FPS, 44 1% Low FPS

Lenovo Legion 7i Pro Gen10

14870

MSI Vector A18 HX

15168

Gigabyte Aorus Master 16

13267

05,00010,00015,00020,000

Overall index score

GPU index

CPU index

Lenovo Legion 7i Pro Gen10

11318

11138

12459

MSI Vector A18 HX

11134

11004

11939

Gigabyte Aorus Master 16

10468

10222

12123

03,7507,50011,25015,000

3DMark Time Spy Extreme Data
Product	Value
Lenovo Legion 7i Pro Gen10	11318 Overall index score, 11138 GPU index, 12459 CPU index
MSI Vector A18 HX	11134 Overall index score, 11004 GPU index, 11939 CPU index
Gigabyte Aorus Master 16	10468 Overall index score, 10222 GPU index, 12123 CPU index

Naturally, being such a powerful laptop with a huge OLED screen, it doesn't have the best of battery lifespans—it barely cracks 70 minutes in the PCMark gaming test—and it's not something that you can easily slip into a backpack and carry around with you. Oh, and it's an absolute magnet for fingerprints, though that just gives you the perfect excuse to endlessly clean it and make oochy-coochy noises at your beloved new purchase.

As for the disappointing amount of storage, the good news there is that the Lenovo Legion 7i Pro has a spare M.2 slot inside, so funds permitting, it's very easy to throw another 1 or 2 TB NVMe drive in there, purely to house games.

If you're going to spend a whole heap of cash on a new RTX 5080 gaming laptop, you can do far worse than this one. In fact, it's actually very hard to beat the Lenovo. Certainly on price, but in every other area that matters, the Legion 7i Pro is absolutely top-notch.

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4. Best mid-range:
MSI Vector 16 HX AI

5. Best high-performance:
Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Gen 10

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Nick, gaming, and computers all first met in the early 1980s. After leaving university, he became a physics and IT teacher and started writing about tech in the late 1990s. That resulted in him working with MadOnion to write the help files for 3DMark and PCMark. After a short stint working at Beyond3D.com, Nick joined Futuremark (MadOnion rebranded) full-time, as editor-in-chief for its PC gaming section, YouGamers. After the site shutdown, he became an engineering and computing lecturer for many years, but missed the writing bug. Cue four years at TechSpot.com covering everything and anything to do with tech and PCs. He freely admits to being far too obsessed with GPUs and open-world grindy RPGs, but who isn't these days?

Product	Value
Lenovo Legion 7i Pro Gen10	78 Avg FPS, 37 1% Low FPS
MSI Vector A18 HX	80 Avg FPS, 38 1% Low FPS
Gigabyte Aorus Master 16	75 Avg FPS, 46 1% Low FPS