Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i - Is it good for gaming?

[DubbleD]

Goooddmorning,

Ladies en gents, I need your help! I'm thinking of buying a Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i,
Specs: intel 13th i7, 16GB DDR5, 1Tb SSD, Mini-led 3.2k and NVIDIA RTX 4060.
Im planning on using it for entertainment and gaming.

I've seen reviews on the creator side, but im wondering if some of you have expierence with gaming on this machine, think of Assissins creed, total war, MineCraft (shaders) and GTA.

Hope to get your opinion on this!

[adm0n]

Here are a few performance numbers that help you to compare it to other laptops with 4060s (https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-Yoga-Pro-9i-16-laptop-review-Great-mini-LED-panel-but-unnecessary-cost-saving-measures.737777.0.html#toc-5)

 

Generally it's not bad for gaming. The GPU gets as much power as it could in a thin laptop.

 

I have the newer (2024) model and it has some weird issues. I'm not sure if they apply to the 2023 model as well.

• It slowly discharges while plugged in and gaming. The rate of discharge is proportional to how bright you make your screen. So gaming in HDR with maximum screen brightness will result in a ~10% decrease of your charge level.
• The miniLED screen has brown streaking in high contrast transitions in SDR and HDR ->
  The video is at 60Hz. At 165 hz the issues isn't as prevalent anymore.

[DubbleD]

And what do you expierence while gaming? Lots of noise, frame drops? Can you tell me more?

39 minutes ago, adm0n said:

Here are a few performance numbers that help you to compare it to other laptops with 4060s (https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-Yoga-Pro-9i-16-laptop-review-Great-mini-LED-panel-but-unnecessary-cost-saving-measures.737777.0.html#toc-5)

 

Generally it's not bad for gaming. The GPU gets as much power as it could in a thin laptop.

 

I have the newer (2024) model and it has some weird issues. I'm not sure if they apply to the 2023 model as well.

• It slowly discharges while plugged in and gaming. The rate of discharge is proportional to how bright you make your screen. So gaming in HDR with maximum screen brightness will result in a ~10% decrease of your charge level.
• The miniLED screen has brown streaking in high contrast transitions in SDR and HDR ->
  The video is at 60Hz. At 165 hz the issues isn't as prevalent anymore.

What is your expierence gaming on it? Frame drops, lag spikes? Noise or heat? Like to know more,

[adm0n]

22 minutes ago, DubbleD said:

And what do you expierence while gaming? Lots of noise, frame drops? Can you tell me more?

What is your expierence gaming on it? Frame drops, lag spikes? Noise or heat? Like to know more,

I did only play Ori and the will on the wisp on it so far. It was acceptably loud and also pretty warm. But with noise canceling headphones you don't notice that. Otherwise it ran pretty smooth and I couldn't complain about the performance.

 

I mostly stream games from my desktop though. So I can't comment about the performance too much. There are also some weird OS wide lags that happen from time too time, but I think that mostly has to do with the audio system. If you go into battery saver mode, it tries to turn down the (Dolby atmos) audio processing. But Dolby Atmos seems to dislike that quite a bit and causes the whole system to freeze for a second. That pretty much got resolved after I fiddled a bit with the settings though. The speaker quality may suffer from that though.

[AmDAli3n]

On 7/22/2024 at 10:05 AM, adm0n said:

Here are a few performance numbers that help you to compare it to other laptops with 4060s (https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-Yoga-Pro-9i-16-laptop-review-Great-mini-LED-panel-but-unnecessary-cost-saving-measures.737777.0.html#toc-5)

 

Generally it's not bad for gaming. The GPU gets as much power as it could in a thin laptop.

 

I have the newer (2024) model and it has some weird issues. I'm not sure if they apply to the 2023 model as well.

• It slowly discharges while plugged in and gaming. The rate of discharge is proportional to how bright you make your screen. So gaming in HDR with maximum screen brightness will result in a ~10% decrease of your charge level.
• The miniLED screen has brown streaking in high contrast transitions in SDR and HDR ->
  The video is at 60Hz. At 165 hz the issues isn't as prevalent anymore.

I upgraded to the 230w charger. I can now play for hours and it will charge to max at the same time.