Lenovo Legion 5 Pro vs. HP Omen 15 – Bester Ryzen-Gaming-Laptop?

Legion 5 Pro Prices at Lenovo: https://geni.us/yVnT | Amazon: https://geni.us/N7cPs | Newegg: https://bit.ly/3hbNhta Omen 15 Prices at HP: https://tidd.ly/3zQeWGy | Amazon: https://amzn.to/3ydNWk2 Which gaming laptop should you pick, Lenovo Legion 5 Pro or HP Omen 15? I’ve tested both Ryzen gaming laptops to show you the differences! More information on these laptops: Legion 5 Pro Review: https://youtu.be/HIm8vTualEE HP Omen 15 Review: https://youtu.be/7vpXMiOzIzQ Legion 5 Pro Game Benchmarks: https://youtu.be/QoH54xOPk_I HP Omen 15 Game Benchmarks: https://youtu.be/onTemmKqiVI Other items featured: The memory I upgraded the 5 Pro with (2x 8gb x8): https://geni.us/d3hJMP Tools I use for opening laptops: https://geni.us/eT3n Cooling Pad I test with: https://geni.us/d9768J5 Screen Calibration - X-Rite i1 Display Pro: https://geni.us/uhlitT RGB HDMI cables: https://amzn.to/312yrwO Chat with the community in Discord and get behind the scenes videos! https://patreon.com/jarrodstech EVERYTHING I USE: ???? My Current Laptop: https://geni.us/JarrodsLaptop ???? My Camera Gear - https://kit.co/JarrodsTech FOLLOW ME: ???? Twitter - https://twitter.com/jarrodstech ???? My Website - https://jarrods.tech ???? 2nd Channel - https://youtube.com/jarrodslaptops Legion 5 Pro vs Omen 15 Comparison Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:08 Laptop Specs 0:26 Design & Build Quality 0:36 Weight & Size 0:56 Screens 1:51 Camera 2:05 Keyboard & Touchpad 2:52 I/O Ports 4:01 Bottom Panel & Internals 4:25 Battery 5:17 Speakers 5:23 Software Performance Options 5:54 Temperatures, Clock Speed, Power Limits 6:28 Cinebench CPU Difference 6:56 Exterior Temperatures 7:16 Fan Noise 7:46 Gaming Comparison 8:43 Memory & Optimus Differences 9:46 Content Creation 10:21 Storage Speed 10:31 Linux Support 10:45 BIOS 10:51 Pricing & Availability 11:17 Conclusion - Legion 5 Pro or Omen 15? We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. Lenovo Legion 5 Pro or HP Omen 15, which Ryzegaming laptop should you pickI’ve compared both to show you the differenceand help you decide which is worth it. Both of my laptops have the same key specsAMD Ryzen 7 5800H processor, Nvidia RTX 307graphics, 16 gigs of memory, a 1TB SSD ana high refresh screen, but despite lookinsimilar on paper there are some pretty bidifferences between these two machines thayou need to know about. Both have a dark finish, however I’d ratthe build quality of the Legion 5 pro abovthe Omen 15. The legion’s metal lid was sturdier compareto the Omen’s plastic lid, and the fronedge of the Omen and corners feel sharp. Perhaps as a result of a lower tier builquality, the Omen weighed less too. It’s 800g or 1.8lb lighter once you includthe power bricks, as the Legion has a muclarger 300 watt brick compared to the Omen’200 watt brick. The Legion 5 Pro is a little deeper, probablowing to its taller 16:10 screen, it’s alsthicker too, however the Omen is a tiny biwider. The Legion’s screen had better color gamutbut expect different results with the 1440omen. The Legion was also brighter, at least betwee60% and 100% brightness, otherwise the Omewas brighter at lower levels. The Legion 5 Pro has a MUX switch which cabe used to disable optimus after a rebootand this will boost gaming performance. The Omen is stuck with Optimus, but you cabypass it with an external screen, more othat later. With optimus disabled the 5 Pro offers G-Syncor FreeSync with optimus enabled. The Omen also has FreeSync, but the FreeSynrange is much lower and less useful comparatively. The 5 Pro also has an overdrive mode to lowescreen response time, and it’s a fair bibetter than the Omen’s. My Legion had basically no backlight bleedthe Omen had more patchy spots but I can’say I noticed it during regular use. It’s also worth noting that the Omen 1also has a 1440p 165Hz screen option tooso expect different results with that one. The screen on the Omen goes the full 180 degreeback while the Legion’s stops sooner. Both have a 720p camera above the screen ithe middle, though the 5 Pro has a switcon the right to physically disconnect thcamera to ensure privacy. This is what the camera and microphone looand sound like on the Omen 15, and this iwhat they look and sound like over on thLegion 5 Pro. Both of my keyboards have white backlightinghowever both also have RGB options too. All keys and secondary functions are illuminateon both, and the legion has two brightneslevels while the Omen just has the one. The Legion has a numpad while the Omen doenot. Personally I preferred typing on the Legionthough the key presses don’t feel too differento me. The main reason was simply that the fronedge of the Omen feels sharp to me, whilthe Legion is smooth, but also my hands carest more comfortably on the legion. The Omen’s power button is right next tdelete and backspace, the Legion has it righup the back, and the color of the light changeto indicate the performance mode you’rcurrently in which I think is much more useful. Although I had no problems using the precisiotouchpads on either, I liked the feel of thclick more on the Legion, plus it’s slightllarger too. The 5 Pro has an air exhaust vent on the lefwhile the Omen does not, the only thing icommon on this side is a 3.5mm audio combjack. The 5 Pro has a USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-C portwhile the Omen has Gigabit ethernet, USB 3.Gen1 Type-A port, HDMI 2.1 output and SD carslot. Both have an air exhaust on the right, anboth have USB 3.2 Gen1 ports on this sideone Type-A for the 5 Pro while the Omen haa Type-C and two Type-A ports along with mini DisplayPort. The Omen just has air exhausts on the bacwhile the 5 Pro has the rest of its I/O, whicI find preferable as bulky cables run outhe back and out of the way. So the key differences between the ports othese two machines are that the Omen has thSD card slot and the DisplayPort output. The Legion 5 Pro does not have these, buit does have an extra Type-A USB port ana Type-C USB port. Both of the Type-C ports on the Legion offeDisplayPort out, so technically both shoulbe able to run 3 monitors, but the Type-port on the back of the Legion also supportType-C charging, the Omen 15 does not havType-C charging. All display outputs connect directly to thNvidia graphics, so this could be used tbypass Optimus on the Omen. The lid of the 5 Pro lights up but can bturned off with this shortcut, while the Omedoesn’t have lighting. The bottom panels were similar, vents up thback directly above the intake fans, thougabout half of the vent holes are blocked othe Omen, presumably to direct air to thfans. The internals are quite similar in terms ofunctionality. Both have the battery down the front, thOmen has its 2 M.2 slots on either side othe battery while the 5 pro has them jusabove. Both have two memory slots in about the samplace, however WiFi 6 on the Omen is soldereto the motherboard, so a plus to the Legiothere. The battery in the 5 Pro is larger at 80Wcompared to the 70.9Wh battery in the Ome15, however despite this the battery was lastinfor about an hour longer in the Omen in thYouTube playback test. Both were tested with their default high screerefresh rate, but we can easily boost batterlife by 2 hours on the 5 Pro by instead limitinit to 60Hz. Now we could do this on the Omen too, buthe 5 Pro gives us this quick and simple shortcuinstead of going through all the Windows settingeach time to manually change it, which I thinoffers a far better user experience. While running either stress tests or gamesI noticed that the battery on the Omen 1was draining while plugged into wall power. It just seems that the smaller 200W powebrick for it isn’t enough to handle th5800H and RTX 3070 under full load for aextended period of time. I did try changing some suggested settingin the BIOS but that didn’t help. The Legion had no such problems, despite alshaving higher power limits, but it’s powebrick is also much bigger. The speakers definitely sounded better othe 5 Pro, there’s a bit more bass whilthe Omen sounds tinnier in comparison. Let’s check out thermals next. Both laptops let you adjust performance profilesthough the Legion 5 Pro has three differenoptions while the Omen just has two, howevethe Omen does give us the option of customizinfan speed, a feature the 5 Pro does not offer. I’ll only be comparing the highest performancprofiles in this video, if you want to sehow both do at the lower modes then you cacheck the full reviews linked down in thdescription. Both have two fans and heat pipes, thougthe Omen shares two pipes between CPU anGPU while the Legion has one shared. Both have full VRM coverage, but the Omedoesn’t exhaust air from one of its sides. These are the temperatures when sitting idland while under CPU plus GPU stress test. For the most part the Omen 15, shown in thred bars, was cooler than the Legion 5 Proshown by the purple bars, however the 5 Pris reaching higher clock speeds, so highelevels of performance are likely what’attracting the additional heat. This is confirmed when looking at the powelimits, the Omen 15 is limiting the processoto 35 watts while the Legion runs the samCPU at 45 watts. Likewise the GPU on the Omen is also whawe’d traditionally call Max-Q, while thLegion 5 Pro is Max-P - that is the full 12watt power limit. The Legion 5 Pro is also doing better in Cinebenchagain both have the same Ryzen 7 5800H processobut the Legion allows higher power limitwhich results in better performance. Single core scores aren’t too differenthowever multicore score is almost 10% higheon the Legion. The gap narrows when running both on batterpower. Performance is lost with both laptops, buregardless the Legion is still able to perforbetter on battery power. This might be why the battery lasts longeon the Omen despite it having a smaller batteryit might be limiting output harder. Both were cool to the touch when just sittinthere idle, low 30s is normal stuff for gaming laptop, though the WASD area on thOmen was a bit cooler. This was also seen with the stress tests runningthe WASD area of the Omen is cool implyinair is moving through the keyboard. The legion has warmer hot spots, but it’still not what I’d call hot even in thosareas - let’s have a listen to fan noise. Both were quiet when idling, but the Omewas making less noise. The Omen was louder when under load thoughI found in this worst case stress test iwas running at maximum with the fans set tautomatic speed, so no difference betweethis and manually maxing it out. The louder fans of the Omen would be contributinto it running cooler, as well as its lowepower limits. Less power equals less heat, so let’s sehow well both laptops compare in games. Battlefield V was tested in campaign modeand I’ve got both laptops at stock highlightein red. The 5 Pro is hitting an average frame ratthat’s 15% higher than the Omen 15, whicis quite a difference considering that opaper both have the same CPU, GPU and memory. This is likely because the 5 Pro lets us disabloptimus while the Omen does not support thifeature. Shadow of the Tomb Raider was tested witthe games benchmark, and the results are muccloser together here. The 5 Pro was still ahead, but at just 3 FPit’s less of a difference and not one you’be likely to notice in practice. Far Cry 5 was also tested using the gamebenchmark, and this time both are extremelclose together. Technically the Omen was slightly ahead, buthe difference is so negligible that it’well within margin of error ranges. Now the Legion 5 Pro does ship with suboptimamemory. I’ve got a whole video talking about thaover here, but basically it is possible tboost its performance by using memory witlower timings, and I’m not even talkinabout like super low timing special expensivmemory or anything. These are the memory timings of the stocmemory that comes with the 5 Pro and Ome15. Both use two 8 gig sticks that run at DDR4-320CL22 in single rank, but there are some differencein other timings like tRFC which are higheon the 5 Pro. Now these are the timings with the 5 Pro witthe memory kit linked in the description iuse, and they exactly match the Omen 15, slet’s see the performance differences now. In Battlefield V I’ve got the new memor5 Pro result in green, and it’s more iline with the other RTX 3070 laptops thalet you disable optimus now, like the MSGP76 and XMG Neo 15. In Shadow of the Tomb Raider the 5 Pro witsame speed memory as the Omen is now reachin13% higher average frame rate compared tthe Omen, and it also had a similar 12% boosover the Omen now in Far Cry 5 too, so th5 Pro can definitely get some gains when usinthe same speed memory that the Omen shipwith. It’s also worth noting that we can boosperformance with the Omen by connecting aexternal screen, as this bypasses Optimuand connects straight to the Nvidia graphics. The 5 Pro is still ahead, but at least thOmen doesn’t need a memory swap. Now let’s check out some content creatoworkloads, we’re back to stock memory here. I’ve tested Adobe Premiere with the Pugesystems benchmark. Again the 5 Pro was ahead here too, but it’only scoring 2% higher. The difference is even smaller in Photoshopboth were scoring exactly the same here, whilDaVinci Resolve was a little better with th5 Pro almost 5% above the Omen. The Legion 5 Pro is ahead in SPECviewpertoo, which tests out various professiona3D workloads. Again the 5 Pro was also ahead in the 3DMartests, as the GPU can perform better witoptimus disabled. This shows the memory difference is less oan issue here compared to the games, as stocmemory was tested. Both laptops came with a 1TB NVMe M.2 SSDand the one in the 5 Pro was a little faster. The Omen also has an SD card slot thoughwhich the 5 Pro is missing. Linux support with an Ubuntu 20 live CD wasimilar with both. Wi-Fi, keyboard, touchpad, speakers and camerworked on both, however the Legion’s performancprofiles are baked into firmware so we castill change between the 3 performance modewith the function and Q shortcut. The BIOS on the Legion has more options toogranted most of the options are also availablthrough the control panel software. Alright let’s discuss price next, you’rgoing to have to refer to the links in thdescription as prices will change over timebecause at the time of recording the Legio5 Pro still isn’t available in the US. At CES Lenovo mentioned the 5 Pro would starat $1000 USD, however it’s not clear whaspec that’s for. The Omen 15 on the other hand starts at $112USD, and while you can order today it won’ship for a while yet, seems like everyonis at the mercy of AMD’s supply. If the Legion 5 Pro base spec at $1000 UScomes with Ryzen 5 5600H and RTX 3060 graphicswell, it’s going to crush it. It sounds too good to be true though, anI wouldn’t be surprised if it ends up cominwith RTX 3050 graphics - we’ll have to waiand see. All things considered though, I think Lenovo’Legion 5 Pro is a much better option compareto HP’s Omen 15, so it would make sensif there is a price premium there. With the same specs the 5 Pro was winninbasically every test. Yeah the Omen ran a bit cooler, but that’because the fans run louder and it has lowepower limits resulting in lower performance. At least it has fan control thoughThe Omen does win in some areas though, it’lighter and it’s got better battery lifdespite having a smaller battery than th5 Pro, and the RAM the Omen ships with ibetter. It’s also got an SD card slot, but otherwisthe I/O is pretty similar with some minodifferences. There’s just not that much else going fothough, other than possibly the lower pricebut that’s still yet to be seen. The build quality of the 5 Pro is betterit’s got a better screen with G-Sync ana MUX switch to disable optimus. Internals are similar, but the Omen has soldereWi-Fi so that’s an edge to the Legion. The power brick of the Legion is a fair bilarger and heavier, but at least it avoidbattery drain while gaming. Honestly it probably makes more sense to comparthe Omen 15 against the Legion 5 non Probut I don’t have that one yet and a loof people still asked for this compariso- so here we areAn easy win for the Legion 5 pro but at thend of the day it comes down to the pricdifference. Make sure you’re subscribed for more upcominlaptop comparisons like this one. If the 5 non pro comes in I’ll definitelcompare it against the Omen 15 too, and guess probably against the 5 Pro as well tsee if the Pro is worth it. 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