Lenovo Legion 5 Pro: gaming benchmarks and tests with DLSS and ray tracing
Lenovo Legion 5 Pro
The Lenovo Legion 5 Pro is a powerful and rather compact laptop, not too big than a 15-inch of the last generation despite having a 16-inch screen with a lot of hardware.The model we have in our hands in the editorial office is the top of the range: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 paired with an AMD Ryzen 5800H: the result is a gaming laptop that does well even on a professional level, thanks to a bright screen and high color accuracy. We talked about all these features and the performance of this notebook in depth in our review of the Lenovo Legion 5 Pro, beautiful long and full-bodied, while in this article we have chosen to focus on the gaming experience with 4 particularly heavy video games that enjoy support of the most advanced NVIDIA technologies: DLSS and ray tracing.
We are talking about Control, Cyberpunk 2077, Metro Exodus: Enhanced Edition and Watch Dogs: Legion. Let's see how the machine built by Lenovo performed in our tests.
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Control
Control and ray tracing Control enjoys an exceptional implementation of DLSS, making its activation an almost obligatory choice. But in 1440p the Lenovo Legion 5 Pro still manages to run the heavy Remedy title at a more than decent framerate even with only ray tracing active, without ever dropping below 30 FPS. With DLSS alone, in quality mode by the way, it flies up to 120 frames per second with peaks of 163 FPS thanks to which it actually takes advantage of the refresh of the excellent Lenovo gaming laptop screen. In doing so, however, he renounces ray tracing which in Control has a massive application that returns faithful reflections in reflective surfaces of all kinds, including metals and painted wood.! function () {"use strict"; window.addEventListener ("message", (function (e) {if (void 0! == e.data ["datawrapper-height"]) {var t = document.querySelectorAll ("iframe"); for (var a in e.data ["datawrapper-height"]) for (var r = 0; r
Cyberpunk 2077
A ride in the car in Cyberpunk 2077 Cyberpunk 2077 also enjoys an excellent implementation of DLSS which is necessary to take advantage of ray tracing. By activating only the latter, in fact, the average framerate drops to 21 FPS and the minimum framerate reaches 10 FPS making the title CD Projekt RED unplayable. But everything changes with the DLSS in performance mode that allows you to enjoy the sumptuous simulated lighting of Night City with a framerate closer to 60 than 30 frames per second, more than enough to play without problems whatsoever .! function () {"use strict"; window.addEventListener ("message", (function (e) {if (void 0! == e.data ["datawrapper-height"]) { var t = document.querySelectorAll ("iframe"); for (var a in e.da ta ["datawrapper-height"]) for (var r = 0; r
Metro Exodus: Enhanced Edition
A beautiful scenery of Metro Exodus: Enhanced Edition As with previous titles, Metro Exodus: Enhanced Edition's DLSS is excellent. Indeed, perhaps it is even better than the one implemented in Control, thanks to the evolution of technology and a painstaking work of the developers who, in addition to replacing the pre-calculated lighting with ray tracing, have worked very well on the optimization. We are told by the 116 FPS in 1440p with ultra ray tracing, also activating the raytraced reflections with the appropriate option, and the DLSS in performance mode. It is therefore fully playable, without sacrifices, even with the DLSS in quality mode and travels fairly well even without upscaling. With ultra raytracing alone, including reflections, Metro Exodus: EE travels on the Lenovo Legion 5 Pro at an average of 50 FPS and never dips below 30 FPS.! function () {"use strict"; window.addEventListener ("message", (function (e) {if (void 0! == e.data ["datawrapper-height"]) {var t = document.querySelectorAll ("iframe"); for (var a in e.data ["datawrapper-height"]) for (var r = 0; r
Watch Dogs: Legion
Watch Dogs: Legion Urban Warfare The DLSS quality of Watch Dogs: Legion is the lowest of the quartet of tested titles, but on a small to medium-sized screen it still guarantees an advantageous ratio between performance gain and remains aesthetic. And it is a good thing since as in the case of Cyberpunk 2077 it is necessary to guarantee acceptable performance with active ray tracing. On the other hand we are talking about real-time reflections at a considerable distance in a massive open world with high detail, so heavy that it barely touches. 60 FPS on average even when ray tracing is completely disabled and DLSS is enabled in performance mode.! function () {"use strict"; window.addEventListener ("message", (function (e) {if (void 0! == e.data ["datawrapper-height"]) {var t = document.querySelectorAll ("iframe"); for (var a in e.data ["datawrapper-height"] ) for (var r = 0; r
The importance of DLSS combined with ray tracing
Definitely satisfied with the overall performance of the Lenovo Legion 5 Pro laptop, we were happy to be able to deepen the our performance analysis in the case of video games with support for DLSS and ray tracing, focusing among other things on the 1440p resolution.The two characteristics of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX undoubtedly go hand in hand but are not bound to each other to the other. Of course, ray tracing, in titles where it is implemented in a massive way, makes itself felt on performance, so much so as to make the simultaneous activation of the DLSS almost inevitable, but we still tried to run it without it, both to measure the effectiveness of Deep Learning Super Sampling, both to meet those who do not want to risk anything in terms of image quality.
The DLSS, on the other hand, can easily be used alone and with many titles, thanks to the quality of integration and the drastic improvements of version 2.0, it guarantees a significant increase in performance. All without a visible deterioration, or almost, of the quality of the final image. For this, especially in titles like Control and Cyberpunk 2077 which enjoy an excellent implementation of the technology, it is almost a must, especially with a high refresh screen with the 165 Hz IPS fitted in the Lenovo Legion 5 Pro.
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