Lenovo IDEAPAD 5 Review - MX450 DDR6 i7 1165G7 - (Late 2020) 15ITL05 - By Hubwood

Hi my name is hardwood and welcome to today's video, in which we will take a closer look at the newest installment of Lenovo's I'd pad 5, which now comes with a mx450 with gddr6 ram and an i7 1165 g7. Now, let's take a look at the specs first, the specific model that I've tested did cost me 999 euros, and it comes with an i7, 1165 g7 four core eight thread CPU with integrated intel, iris, Xe, graphics. It has a turbo of 4.7 gigahertz on one and 4.1 gigahertz on all cores, which is 600 megahertz more than the i7 1065 g7 provides an NVIDIA GeForce mx450 with 2 gigabytes, ddr6, 16, gigabytes of soldered and pretty fast ddr4, 3200 megahertz in dual channel mode, which unfortunately can't be expanded. A 512 gigabyte, NVMe SSD a 15-inch full HD IPS screen with 300 nits, a fingerprint sensor, a 70 watt hour battery a 65 watt, USB c charger, a 720p webcam with privacy shutter by the way. This is what the integrated camera looks like in the microphone sounds like Wi-Fi, 6 and a SD card reader, which is definitely a nice to have, and, of course, there will be versions with 8 gigabytes as well as AMD versions, which probably won't be available with the mx450, though at least that's what I was able to find out yet now. The case of this laptop is pretty much identical.

With the last version that I've tested. You can watch that video up here if you're interested, which came with a 1065 g7 i7 processor and the mx350, but there have been some minor changes about the monitor and the side panels about the connections. One good thing is that you can now easily open the laptop with one hand and the last version you had to do it very slow or push it down, and I like to have a laptop that I can open with one hand only so thank you. Lenovo the whole laptop weighs only around 1.66 kilogram and has a total height of around 20 millimeters. They say it's 18, but when I measured it looked like 20.

, it is well-built, and it has a subtle design. But to me, it looks valuable, even though it's made 100 out of plastic and in my opinion it feels nice. I, like the soft touch, feel that it has the display. It seems sturdy enough to me and, of course, being an IPS display. It has nice viewing angles, as said before, it comes with a maximum brightness of 300 nits, which is fine for me, but it's not intended for outside use in the sun.

The colors are vivid, and the contrasts seem fine to me and as soon as I know, the coverage of RGB and adobe, I will post it in a sticky comment. Now the power button comes with an integrated fingerprint sensor, which worked for me around 99 of the times the illuminated keyboard and the touchpad seem to be pretty much the same as in the previous version, and I have to say I do like them both they feel valuable and are nice to work with, even though I prefer using a mouse. Of course, the speakers actually provide an okay quality as well as Dolby audio and the sound is not distorted, but it lags best, and it could be a bit louder overall. But for me, it's always a plus, if a speaker on a laptop is directed towards the user and not towards the table. Now, let's take a look at the connections.

On the left side, we have an USB port which at the same time, is the power plugin for the PSU, and I guess that also answers the question. If it's possible to charge the device via USB, the USB-C port also has the ability to support DisplayPort 1.4, meaning that you would have to use some kind of advanced USB hub or converter. If you want to charge it at the same time, so keep that in mind, and then we have the HDMI 1.4 port and a regular three point inch jack that combines headphones and microphone on the right side. We have two times USB 3.2 ports and SD card reader and the microphone which is identical to the previous I'd pad 5 and that's it meaning. We have only two regular USB ports for me personally, that is not enough.

Yes, there is the additional USB port, but that is occupied when loading the laptop. Second, I don't like to have more than one USB port on the right side of a laptop as connecting something will usually get in the way of your mouse, especially if you don't have much space and I prefer laptops with a LAN connection, but I get that it's not going to happen. Often these days with small Ultrabooks, the battery, it's a 70 watt hour battery, and it's actually right in the middle of what many laptops offer these days. So we should get okay results. Unfortunately, the 71-hour battery is actually discharging around eight percent per hour, while gaming on the heavy load, even when the laptop is plugged in it's not like this never happens in laptops, it's happening in my gaming laptop, which has an i7 and a GTX 1060, but it's not nice.

If it does, when the battery is reaching what 10 the laptop will throttle, and you lose around 25 performance to prevent further discharging, I guess it would take. At least 10 to 12 hours to reach that 10 limit when being plugged in and starting at 100 percent, though, and after researching on the Lenovo website, there seems to be no official stronger PSU than the 65w one. I don't know if a third party 100 watt charger would prevent that from happening now, as expected, the battery times are pretty okay. I achieved 57 minutes of gaming on the full load playing cyberpunk, 2077 and 67 minutes running the unichin heaven benchmark without any energy saving methods and 90 display brightness, but that game really puts GPU and CPU on the full pressure. Almost all the time.

I have to point out positively that the laptop doesn't perform much slower in gaming when unplugged as it only affects the CPU boost clock and not the NVIDIA mx450. You probably won't notice any difference at all in titles that aren't very intense on the CPU. You will get worse frame times and some hiccups here and there, though, and that might disturb you if you're sensible to that due to the lower CPU boost clock, also note that lighter gaming, especially if you can limit the fps to 60, would get you even longer battery times watching YouTube in energy saving mode with around 50 brightness got me 6 hours and 8 minutes and the idle time in energy saving mode with activated Wi-Fi and the display brightness of 50 was a very impressive 21 hours and 47 minutes in 30 minutes. The laptop is charging from 4 to 49, meaning that it's charging 45 in 30 minutes in additional 30 minutes. I was charging from 49 to 86.

That means it charged around 82 total in 60 minutes, so it takes less than 90 minutes or one and a half hours to fully charge the laptop from zero to 100. Now considering performance, let's start with the SSD drive speed, which is what you would expect in an Ultrabook these days around 1000 megabytes of sequential writing, speed and around 2000 megabytes of reading speed. That's absolutely fast enough for a laptop like this, even though I would really favor one terabyte of capacity at this price point. To be honest, there will be versions with bigger SSDs, though. Please be aware that you cannot install a second regular, HDD or SSD, as there is no available SATA slot.

The CPU has a 28 watt TDP and is pretty consistent in its performance when plugged in that resulted in an initial cine bench, r15 score of 1042 and around 960 after a few runs, which, according to notebookcheck. com places it at the absolute top of laptops with this CPU, and I also consider the long-tail performance exceptional. But if unplugged I only got a score of 400, which is kind of weird, because in cine bench odd 23, I didn't have that issue in cine bench r23. It achieved a score of 6340 in the first run and around 6180 after a few runs, that's still noticeably slower than AMD's 4700u, but it's still fast enough for everyday tasks and even heavier work related stuff, as well as video, editing and 3d stuff. For some reason, the scores were absolutely identical in the first run, when unplugged, I don't know why cine bench r15 performed so much slower.

In that case, I retested both tests to be sure and getting the same result again weird. Now, let's talk about the gaming performance in 3dmark fire strike, I was getting a complete score of 5122 and the graphic score of 5431. That is indeed around 15 percent higher than the MX 450 with ddr5, which achieved a graphic score of 4700, but in some games the difference is actually even higher and in some there's almost no difference at all. In time spy I achieved a total score of 1365 with a graphic score of 1215 and a CPU score of 4578. I made a video in which I compared the ddr5, with the ddr6 version, so make sure to check that one out to get some extended information about the gaming performance.

I will also link it in the description of course, but in general you can play every game, that's out there, but of course, in newer titles you would have to crank down the resolution and the graphics a bit. For example, in cyberpunk 2077 you would want to use 900p or 720p to get fluent gameplay, but then it will work pretty. Okay, actually, but even some middle-aged AAA titles like the Witcher 3, will actually run really, really well on 1080p and medium settings. Actually. In this example, I was almost getting an average of 60 fps in battlefield 5.

I saw around 45 to 55 fps on the low preset and even Red Dead Redemption 2 would work at 1080p. If you choose the absolute lowest settings, or you could use 720p or 900p and crank up the settings which I actually would prefer, because on the very low setting the game doesn't look that well in the case of Red Dead Redemption 2. Anything else, then very low and 1080p would be a problem, because the small VRAM will stop the game from actually working or accepting the settings, and that is a bummer. That's not the noble's fault, of course, but because the chip itself is actually fast enough to provide decent fps for medium or high settings in many games. It's a shame.

Nvidia should have at least used three gigabytes or four gigabytes, but actually they just don't consider the MX series as a real gaming card. Of course, lighter stuff like rocket league, will work like a charm with over 100 fps on average, even on ultra settings, Fortnite overwatch League of Legends and such will run perfectly fine with much more than 60 fps, as well, of course. Now the temperatures. I noticed that actually lifting the laptop on the load like this a bit and placing something below would drastically reduce temperatures. We're talking about 5 to 10 degrees here, under watering actually is not possible at intel locks their new CPUs from doing that they cannot be underwater anymore in any way.

As far as I'm aware, by the way, I ran all the gaming tests under the performance zone by Lenovo, which ramps up the fans a bit more than the regular mode. Looking into that also made me notice that sometimes the GPU boost frequency heavily drops to around 1400 megahertz for no visible reason at last. It's not because of the temperature, I'm guessing that it has to do something with the fact that the laptop is not providing enough power and that the battery discharges, while gaming, the keyboard itself, is not getting super warm on the full load and at least not in a way that I would consider uncomfortable. The noise level with regular usage is actually really silent. Only when gaming or rendering the fans really ramp up to a level which some might find slightly annoying, so you probably would want to use a headphone while gaming now as a conclusion who should buy this laptop well, if you are okay, with casual gaming being restricted by the 2 gigabytes of re-ram, being okay with not having the fastest Ultrabook CPU, you can get for this money, and if a good mobility is more important to you than graphic performance, this laptop should be fine for you.

It has no major flaws. In my opinion, the build quality is really nice, and the performance is perfect, considering the size. Yes, it is good for students. In my opinion, it should last a whole day at university. In most cases, and before you ask because I know you will yes, it's perfectly fine for working with CID, also known as cut and programming.

If you don't need the dedicated graphics card, because you need the game a lot or don't do any video editing at all and no 3d rendering, I would suggest getting a model with an AMD processor. Instead, maybe- and even those could do some of those tasks in an okay way, as you will save money and probably get an even longer battery life and the AMD 4000 series has a pretty decent, integrated graphics as well, which allows at least for some light gaming, sometimes even a 1080p or 900p, but I have to shout out to Lenovo for allowing the intel i7 1165 g7 such a great performance in this laptop. If you enjoyed this video, it would help a lot if you would subscribe or like the video. Thank you very much thanks for watching, see you next time, bye, bye and cheers you.

Source : Hubwood