Review of Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH6: A Worthwhile Mid-Range Gaming Laptop from Lenovo

Lenovo laptops are always favored by many users for their meticulous design and impressive hardware specifications. The Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH16 is no exception. Check out the review of Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH16 below to explore this gaming laptop model!

Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH16 features a minimalist design with solid build quality

Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH16 is designed with the commonly seen minimalist style of the brand on many other mid-range gaming laptops from Lenovo. The back of the machine is still designed with a blocky style with 3 slightly diagonal cut lines on both sides and the bottom to maintain the gaming aesthetics.

Overall, Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH16 is crafted from high-quality plastic, showcasing excellent build quality despite being a mid-range gaming product. This indicates Lenovo's meticulous attention to detail across all segments. Additionally, this gaming laptop comes in only one black color, providing a sense of robustness and durability. However, the plastic material of the laptop tends to attract sweat and fingerprints, which is a minor downside to consider.

Furthermore, Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH16 has overall dimensions of 359.6 x 251.9 x 24.2 mm and weighs approximately 2.25 kg. For me, these dimensions and weight are just right for conveniently carrying the device in a backpack and shouldering it anywhere throughout the day without feeling overly burdensome.

The hinge area of Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH16 also features an attractive design with the model name and parallel lines to create an interesting focal point. Not only is the hinge aesthetically pleasing, but the build quality is also excellent. Even when typing vigorously, the screen remains stable without excessive shaking, ensuring a comfortable user experience.

In addition to its appealing appearance, Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH16 comes with plenty of essential connectivity ports to accommodate various peripherals. Specifically, on the left side of the machine, there is 1 power port, 1 LAN port, 1 HDMI port, and 1 USB Type-C port (data transfer only). Meanwhile, the right side houses 2 USB-A 3.2 ports and a standard 3.5mm audio jack.

Opening up, Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH16 is equipped with a keyboard system featuring a 98% layout and keycaps designed in the familiar style of Lenovo. The keyboard of this laptop continues to receive high praise for its typing experience, responsiveness, key travel, and more. It can be said that this mid-range gaming laptop provides a very satisfying user experience, comparable to higher-end products.

A slight downside I found for the keyboard of Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH16 is the absence of RGB LED backlighting, only featuring a single-color white LED. The lack of multi-color LEDs makes the product somewhat lacking in gaming aesthetics.

The trackpad of Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH16 is large, providing a comfortable user experience. Unlike many other products in the same range, the trackpad of this laptop is smooth and responsive, with very fast feedback.

Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH16 boasts a sharp display, with a smooth 144 Hz refresh rate

Featuring a 15.6-inch screen, Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH16 offers a spacious display area. Additionally, the large screen allows for opening multiple tabs for comfortable work.

Not only large in size, but the display of Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH16 also offers excellent visual quality when operating on an IPS LCD panel, with a Full HD resolution (1,920 x 1,080 Pixels). Moreover, the machine's color coverage is 45% NTSC (approximately equivalent to about 65% sRGB and 49% DCI-P3), making it suitable for handling basic graphic tasks.

Additionally, Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH16 is equipped with a high refresh rate display, up to 144 Hz. With this specification, the machine's screen provides a smooth viewing experience with fast responsiveness. This is essential for gaming to minimize motion blur in fast-paced games like CSGO 2, The Finals, etc.

Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH16 boasts powerful configuration with AMD-Ryzen 5 - 5500H chip

Before diving into details, let me summarize the entire configuration of Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH16 for your reference.

• Display: 15.6-inch size, Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels), IPS panel, 45% NTSC color coverage, 144 Hz refresh rate.
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 - 5500H.
• Discrete graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050.
• RAM: 16 GB DDR4 dual-channel (8 GB x 2), clocked at 3200 MHz.
• Storage capacity: 512 GB SSD NVMe PCIe Gen 4.0.
• Battery: 45 Wh.
• Operating System: Windows 11.

Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH16 delivers performance from the powerful AMD Ryzen 5 - 5500H chip. This processor belongs to the high-performance series and despite being on the market for a while, it's still trusted by many manufacturers for their laptops. In my usage experience, this gaming laptop fulfills all my usage needs excellently.

Not stopping there, Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH16 is also equipped with the RTX 2050 graphics card. With this setup, the device can handle tasks that consume a lot of hardware resources such as graphic design, video editing, or playing heavy AAA graphics games for extended periods.

Furthermore, Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH16 is also equipped with 16 GB of DDR4 RAM. This will allow us to confidently use multiple tasks at the same time without worrying about annoying lags.

In addition, Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH16 is also equipped with Lenovo Vantage software for users to deeply customize this gaming laptop. However, I couldn't find the performance adjustment section to push the power of this laptop to the maximum for performance testing.

Without keeping you waiting, I'll start the performance evaluation of Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH16 using familiar software such as GeekBench 6, Cinebench R23, PCMark 10, and 3DMark Time Spy. The specific results are as follows:

- Geekbench 6:

• Single-core/Multi-core: 1,810/5,651 points.
• OpenCL Graphics Score: 47,282 points.

- Cinebench R23 (Multi-core/Single-core): 1,329 points/6,580 points.

- PCMark 10: 5,312 points.

- 3DMark: 4,077 points.

Based on the results above, I assess that the scores achieved by Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH16 are all very good and suitable for the product's configuration. Compared to some other models in the same segment and configuration that I have experienced, this laptop is competitively positioned.

In addition, to demonstrate the real performance of Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH16 when running heavy tasks, I conducted tests using two games: EA FC Online and GTA V. I also set the graphics settings to low for the best experience and used MSI Afterburner for FPS measurement, CPU temperature, RAM consumption, and more.

• EA FC Online

Entering the first game, EA FC Online, for optimal experience, I set the resolution to the highest to ensure a truly immersive experience.

Throughout my experience, Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH16 handles EA FC Online smoothly with FPS consistently stable at 130 - 144 FPS. Actions required for gameplay can be executed smoothly with high accuracy.

• GTA V

Finally, the renowned game GTA V. For this game, I maxed out all graphics settings that Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH16 allows.

Throughout the gameplay, no lag was observed on the device. All actions were executed swiftly, smoothly, and accurately. The FPS remained consistently high throughout the game.

Overall, Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH16 can easily meet the gaming needs of today's users without encountering too many difficulties. Additionally, I also tested several other games such as Alan Wake II, Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring, God Of War, and this laptop performed exceptionally smoothly.

Additionally, I used the Crystal Diskmark Shizuku software to measure the read/write speed of the SSD inside Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH16. Here are the results I obtained:

• Read speed: 3,404 MB/s.
• Write speed: 1,826 MB/s.

Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH16 achieves excellent results with fast data read/write speeds. This performance allows users to copy, move files and documents quickly, as well as open applications in less time. This makes our work more convenient.

Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH16 has a strong battery life and good cooling system.

Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH16 boasts a commendable battery life compared to other gaming products I've used. Specifically, I can use this laptop continuously for about 3 hours, meaning nearly half a session without needing to plug in. To provide a more comprehensive overview of this laptop's battery life, I measured it using the BatteryMon app. I divided it into 2 different usage scenarios, and the results are as shown below:

- Scenario 1: Regular tasks without gaming:

• Battery life: 3 hours 22 minutes.
• Measurement time: 1 hour.
• Screen brightness 100%, volume 70% (Bluetooth headset connected), and power-saving mode off.
• Keyboard backlight off.
• USB mouse connected.

- Scenario 2: Regular tasks with 20 minutes of gaming:

• Battery life: 1 hour 25 minutes.
• Measurement time: 1 hour.
• Screen brightness 100%, volume 70% (Bluetooth headset connected), and power-saving mode off.
• Keyboard backlight off.
• USB mouse connected.

The results I obtained are relatively good and closely resemble my actual usage time. What I appreciate about this laptop is that I can still enjoy smooth gameplay on EA FC Online without needing to plug in. This allows users to use the laptop for studying, meetings, or short coffee shop sessions without worrying about charging.

One advantage of Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH16 is its excellent thermal performance. During usage, the laptop remains comfortably warm around the keyboard area without becoming excessively hot. Additionally, the cooling system operates quietly, ensuring a pleasant user experience. For a clearer understanding, refer to the temperature measurements recorded using HWiNFO64 software below.

Based on the recorded temperature data, the average temperature emitted by Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH16 ranges from 53 to 59 degrees Celsius. Compared to other mid-range gaming laptops, Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH16 operates relatively cool.

Summary

Overall, the Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 15ACH16 is a high-quality mid-range gaming product from Lenovo, excelling in design, performance, software, and battery life. Currently priced at 18.99 million Vietnamese dong at Mytour (prices may vary depending on timing and promotions), it offers great value for students and gamers alike.

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