R7 450 RTX 5060 vs R7 350 RTX 5070
Hey everyone,
I’m planning to study Mechanical Engineering next year and came to the conclusion that the Lenovo Legion 5 laptop is the best option to combine gaming, creative stuff and my needs for my study. It’s quiet, has a decent battery life, it’s light and features good specs. However, I’m still hesitating between 2 options.
Both options have 1 TB of storage, 32 gigs of 5600mhz ddr5 RAM and the same battery capacity.
Option 1 costs €1800. It’s the 2025 Lenovo Legion 5 with a Ryzen 7 350 and a RTX 5070. The screen is also a little smaller at 15.1 inches.
Option 2 costs €1700. It’s the 2026 Lenovo Legion with a Ryzen 7 450 and a RTX 5060. The screen is a little bigger at 15.3 inches, but I heard it does have adaptive sync, while the 2025 model doesn’t.
Both options are honestly pretty similar, but since one features a better CPU and a worse GPU and the other one the opposite, it’s really hard to make the right choice.
I don’t play very heavy games, mostly stuff like Valorant, Fortnite, Minecraft and Terraria. The heaviest games I’ll probably play are the Tomb Raider games. I don’t know what softwares my uni will be using for ME, but would suppose it would be mostly CAD or stuff like that. I also do video editing in Adobe After Effects and graphic design in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
Important for me are the battery life and performance. Is one going to outperform the other on one of these fields? What do you guys recommend? Would also appreciate total different recommendations. Thank you!