Lenovo Yoga Pro 9 16IMH9 RTX review

Frame rates

1920×1080, High preset, upscaling off.

Measured on this machine. Source: Notebookcheck, 2024-06-09.

In use

The short version

The Lenovo Yoga Pro 9 16IMH9 RTX is an unusual proposition: a large, high-resolution 16in IPS laptop with a Core Ultra 9 185H, 32GB of memory and an RTX 4050 configured at a 100W GPU power limit. On paper, that is a strong set of components for creative work, general high-end use and some serious gaming. At its UK price of £3,511, however, the gaming case is much harder to make.

Notebookcheck's 1920x1080 High-preset figures show that it is plainly capable in older, lighter and well-optimised games. F1 22 reaches 172fps, Strange Brigade reaches 171fps and The Witcher 3 reaches 164fps. Those are very good results for an RTX 4050 laptop and, importantly, they are high enough to make proper use of the display's 165Hz refresh rate in those particular games. Dota 2 at 145fps is also very quick, even if it does not quite reach the panel's ceiling in the measured run.

The picture changes in more demanding games. Far Cry 5 returns 121fps, which remains comfortably fast. Tiny Tina's Wonderlands falls to 93fps, X-Plane 11 to 89fps, Baldur's Gate 3 and Final Fantasy XV to 84fps, and Cyberpunk 2077 to 68fps. None of those results suggest a machine that struggles to run games at 1080p High without upscaling; 68fps in Cyberpunk 2077 is still a playable measured result. But they do show that this is not a laptop which can consistently turn a 165Hz screen into a 165fps gaming experience across modern demanding titles.

That distinction matters because the Yoga Pro 9's screen is not a conventional 1080p gaming panel. It is a 3200x2000 display. The available benchmark figures are at 1920x1080, with High settings and upscaling off, so they demonstrate the laptop's gaming capability under a lighter rendering load than its native panel resolution. We do not have native-resolution frame-rate figures. Anyone considering this machine specifically to game at 3200x2000 should treat the 1080p results as a useful baseline, not as evidence that every game will run at the panel's native resolution at the same settings or frame rates.

The central issue is value. This is a £3,511 laptop with an RTX 4050. The measured figures are respectable for that GPU, particularly in the fastest games, but the price leaves very little room for compromise. An Acer Nitro 14 with an RTX 4060 at 110W is listed at £1,595 and is effectively level with the Yoga Pro 9 across four shared games, with the Lenovo averaging 1fps behind. The Asus ROG Strix Scar 17, meanwhile, costs £4,864 and averages 147fps ahead across seven shared games with its RTX 4090. It is far more expensive, but it also demonstrates what much higher spending buys in outright gaming performance.

The Lenovo therefore makes sense only for a buyer whose priorities extend well beyond gaming and who specifically values its 16in 3200x2000 IPS display, 32GB memory, Core Ultra 9 185H and 84Wh battery capacity. The available data does not allow a judgement on battery runtime, chassis dimensions, keyboard quality, ports, noise or temperatures, so those should not be assumed. What can be said is that the gaming performance is competent rather than commensurate with the price. If gaming is the reason for spending £3,511, there are stronger directions to take. If gaming is one part of a broader requirement for a high-specification 16in laptop, the Yoga Pro 9 is more understandable, but it still needs to be bought with clear eyes about the RTX 4050's limits.

Performance

A capable RTX 4050 configuration, but not a price-appropriate gaming result

The Yoga Pro 9 uses an RTX 4050 with a 100W GPU power limit. The available Notebookcheck figures show what that specific configuration achieves at 1920x1080 on the High preset, with upscaling disabled. That last point is important. These are not frame rates assisted by upscaling, and they are not figures from a lower preset selected to inflate the result. They represent a useful, consistent view of conventional 1080p High gaming performance.

Across the four available scoring-suite games, the measured mean is 96fps. That is a solid average in isolation. It means the machine is not merely scraping past a minimum threshold in a handful of easy games: the benchmark data includes titles ranging from Dota 2 at 145fps to Cyberpunk 2077 at 68fps. The average is also not the whole story, because the spread from 68fps to 145fps within those four games is substantial. A buyer should expect the experience to vary greatly depending on the game, rather than assuming that an average close to 100fps means all games will feel similarly fast.

The fastest results are F1 22 at 172fps, Strange Brigade at 171fps and The Witcher 3 at 164fps. These numbers matter for two reasons. First, they confirm that this 100W RTX 4050 can deliver very high frame rates when the game suits it. Second, they are the titles in which the Yoga Pro 9's 165Hz panel can genuinely be exploited at the measured 1080p settings. F1 22 exceeds the display refresh rate by 7fps, Strange Brigade exceeds it by 6fps, and The Witcher 3 sits only 1fps below it. In those games, the panel is not wasted by the GPU.

That does not mean the laptop turns every game into a 165Hz experience. It means that the combination can do so selectively. Buyers sometimes see a 165Hz display and read it as an implicit promise of 165fps gaming. The benchmark data says otherwise. The screen can refresh at 165Hz, but the GPU only supplies frame rates close to or above that level in the quickest measured games. The practical value of the high refresh rate is therefore strongest in F1 22, Strange Brigade and The Witcher 3, and less direct in the rest of the measured list.

Dota 2 produces 145fps. That is 20fps below the panel's refresh rate, but it remains a very high frame rate. It should be treated as evidence of strong performance in a lighter title rather than as evidence that the machine is underperforming. A 145fps measurement is close enough to 165Hz that the display's high-refresh character remains relevant, even though it is not being fully saturated in the measured run. It also illustrates why a simple “can it hit 165fps?” test is too blunt: 145fps and 68fps are both below 165fps, but they imply very different gaming experiences.

Far Cry 5 records 121fps. This is another clearly fast result, though it sits 44fps below the screen's 165Hz ceiling. At this point, the display's refresh rate remains useful as headroom, but the laptop is not delivering the kind of frame rate that makes a 165Hz panel its defining advantage. That is not a criticism of 121fps; it is a reminder that the Yoga Pro 9's measured gaming performance is better described as high-frame-rate 1080p gaming in selected titles than as universally high-refresh gaming.

Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, at 93fps, marks a more obvious change in character. The game is still running at a frame rate well above 60fps, but the difference from the 171fps in Strange Brigade is 78fps. This is why it is important not to judge the laptop from one favourable result. A machine which can run one game at 171fps may still sit below 100fps in another title at the same 1080p High test settings. The Yoga Pro 9 is not inconsistent in any suspicious sense; different games impose different demands. But the benchmark spread means the buyer needs to set expectations title by title.

X-Plane 11 at 89fps, Baldur's Gate 3 at 84fps and Final Fantasy XV at 84fps reinforce that point. These are all useful results for conventional gaming, especially for someone content with frame rates in the region measured here rather than chasing the display's maximum refresh. Yet they are roughly half the speed of F1 22, Strange Brigade and The Witcher 3. The 165Hz screen remains a quality display specification, but these games show that it is not a guarantee of matching performance from the RTX 4050.

Cyberpunk 2077 is the lowest measured result at 68fps. This is the most demanding figure in the supplied set, and it is the one that should temper any assumption that this is a high-end gaming laptop simply because its overall specification and asking price look premium. A measured 68fps at 1080p High with upscaling off is not poor performance for an RTX 4050 laptop. It is, however, nowhere near the level required to exploit a 165Hz display fully. It also leaves less performance headroom than the faster results if a buyer intends to raise resolution, raise settings or pursue a higher refresh target. We do not have figures for those changes, so it would be wrong to quantify the effect, but the direction of travel is clear: Cyberpunk 2077 is already the limiting case in the supplied data.

What the 100W power limit means in practice

The 100W GPU power limit is not just a specification-table detail. It describes the RTX 4050 configuration behind the measured results. The relevant practical conclusion is not that every 100W RTX 4050 will necessarily return identical frame rates in every laptop, but that this Yoga Pro 9 should be assessed as a relatively substantial RTX 4050 implementation rather than as a purely low-power one.

The strongest evidence is the benchmark spread itself. At 1080p High, the machine reaches 172fps in F1 22, 171fps in Strange Brigade and 164fps in The Witcher 3. Those are not results which suggest a machine designed only for occasional light gaming. It has enough performance to run a meaningful set of games at very high frame rates. At the same time, the lower figures of 93fps, 89fps, 84fps and 68fps demonstrate that 100W does not transform the RTX 4050 into a GPU that can disregard demanding games or the burden of a high-resolution display.

It is useful to separate two questions. The first is whether this is one of the weaker sorts of RTX 4050 gaming experience. The supplied numbers do not support that criticism. The second is whether an RTX 4050, even in this 100W configuration, is an appropriate gaming GPU for a £3,511 laptop with a 3200x2000, 165Hz screen. That is much more doubtful. The GPU can be capable and still be mismatched to the product's price and display ambitions.

The comparison with the Acer Nitro 14 is especially revealing here. The Nitro 14 has an RTX 4060 at 110W, and the Yoga Pro 9 averages 1fps behind it across four shared games. In practical terms, that is a near tie. It does not indicate a meaningful gaming advantage for the £3,511 Lenovo. The specific shared-game average cannot tell us everything about each laptop, because it covers only four games, but it is enough to make the value problem obvious: a much less expensive RTX 4060 laptop is not left behind by this RTX 4050 Yoga.

The near-equal result against the Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 2024 is also worth handling carefully. The Zephyrus has an RTX 4070, yet the Yoga Pro 9 averages 1fps ahead across three shared games. That should not be read as a blanket claim that this RTX 4050 is faster than every RTX 4070 laptop. The shared sample is only three games, and the supplied comparison notes that lighter titles at 1080p can be CPU-bound, compressing genuine GPU differences. In other words, when the CPU or game engine becomes the restriction, the difference between GPUs may not show clearly in the final frame-rate number. The result is real, but the sensible conclusion is that these three shared games do not expose a decisive RTX 4070 advantage, not that the RTX 4050 has somehow become the better class of GPU.

Frame-rate tiers in the measured games

• Near or at the panel limit: F1 22 at 172fps, Strange Brigade at 171fps and The Witcher 3 at 164fps. These are the best demonstrations of the laptop as a high-refresh 1080p gaming machine.
• Very fast but below 165Hz: Dota 2 at 145fps and Far Cry 5 at 121fps. Both should feel quick, but neither reaches the display's maximum refresh rate in the measured run.
• Comfortably above 60fps but not high-refresh territory: Tiny Tina's Wonderlands at 93fps, X-Plane 11 at 89fps, Baldur's Gate 3 at 84fps and Final Fantasy XV at 84fps.
• The demanding limit case: Cyberpunk 2077 at 68fps. It remains above 60fps in the benchmark data, but it is far from the screen's 165Hz capability.

This tiered view is more useful than citing the 96fps mean alone. A buyer mainly interested in F1 22, Strange Brigade, The Witcher 3 or Dota 2 can reasonably expect a fast experience at the measured settings. Someone buying primarily for Cyberpunk 2077, or for games which behave more like Cyberpunk 2077 than F1 22, should base expectations on the 68fps result rather than the headline average. The slowest relevant game often dictates how satisfied someone will be with a gaming laptop.

There is also an important limitation in the benchmark coverage. The available scoring-suite figures cover Dota 2, X-Plane 11, Baldur's Gate 3 and Cyberpunk 2077, giving the 96fps mean. We do not have a GTA V result. Because scored laptops are averaged over the same five games, a partial set cannot be ranked directly against them. It would be misleading to present this Yoga Pro 9 as holding a precise position against fully scored laptops when one of the required results is absent. The available data is enough to judge the machine's measured performance profile, but not enough to assign it a fully comparable ranking.

The screen

The Yoga Pro 9 has a 16in 3200x2000 IPS panel running at 165Hz. This is a notably ambitious screen specification for a laptop with an RTX 4050. Its size makes it a large-format portable rather than a compact gaming machine, its 3200x2000 resolution offers considerably more display space than the 1920x1080 benchmark resolution, and its 165Hz refresh rate gives it the capacity to show very high frame rates when the GPU can provide them.

The key word is capacity. A 165Hz panel can display up to 165 refreshes per second, but it cannot create frames that the game and GPU have not produced. In the supplied figures, F1 22 at 172fps and Strange Brigade at 171fps both exceed that ceiling, while The Witcher 3 at 164fps effectively reaches it. Those are the clearest examples of the display and the GPU working in close alignment at 1080p High. The panel is not merely decorative in those games: it has enough refresh headroom to show the output being delivered.

Dota 2 at 145fps is also a convincing fit for a 165Hz panel, though it falls short of the maximum. Far Cry 5 at 121fps remains well below the panel limit but is still quick enough that the higher refresh screen is relevant. Once the results reach 93fps, 89fps, 84fps and 68fps, the relationship changes. The panel remains capable of 165Hz, but the GPU is not feeding it at anything like that rate in the measured game. The benefit becomes potential headroom rather than an achieved target.

The larger concern is resolution. The screen's native resolution is 3200x2000, while every supplied gaming result is at 1920x1080. Those are not interchangeable conditions. It would be incorrect to write that the Yoga Pro 9 runs Cyberpunk 2077 at 68fps on its native panel resolution; the measured figure is specifically 68fps at 1920x1080 High with upscaling off. Likewise, the 172fps in F1 22, 171fps in Strange Brigade and 164fps in The Witcher 3 are 1080p results, not 3200x2000 results.

That limitation should heavily influence a buying decision. The display gives the laptop a premium visual specification, but the benchmark data does not establish that the RTX 4050 can drive recent games at 3200x2000 while retaining High settings, avoiding upscaling and maintaining the same frame-rate range. We do not have those figures. A buyer who values the panel primarily for desktop work, video, images, documents or general high-resolution use may see the resolution as a major positive regardless of gaming results. A buyer who sees 3200x2000 and 165Hz as gaming promises should be more cautious.

There is no contradiction in wanting a high-resolution screen and accepting 1080p game benchmarks, but there is a compromise. The screen can offer more resolution than the measured gaming workload uses. That may be sensible for someone who spends most of their time outside games and wants gaming as an additional capability. It is less attractive for someone spending £3,511 largely to play games and expecting the internal display's full resolution and refresh rate to be routinely exploited.

The IPS panel type is another part of the specification, but the fact sheet does not provide measurements for brightness, contrast, response times, colour coverage or any other image-quality characteristic. It would be wrong to infer those properties from “IPS” alone. All that can safely be said is that this is a 16in IPS panel with a 3200x2000 resolution and a 165Hz refresh rate. Those are meaningful specifications, but they are not a complete display assessment.

For gaming, the most realistic interpretation is that the panel is highly capable but ahead of the RTX 4050 in many demanding titles. At 1080p High, the GPU can occasionally meet it, often come reasonably close, and sometimes sit far below it. At native resolution, the available figures do not allow a definitive claim either way. That makes the display a strength for a mixed-use buyer and a point of tension for a pure gaming buyer.

Build, size and portability

The Yoga Pro 9 weighs 2.147kg. That is the most concrete portability figure available, and it places the machine firmly in the substantial-laptop category rather than the lightweight category. It is not a small RTX 4050 notebook designed to disappear into a bag unnoticed. Equally, it is not so heavy that it must remain permanently on a desk. The most sensible expectation is a laptop that can travel when required but is likely to be used predominantly at a desk, at home or in another regular workspace.

The 16in screen is part of that story. A 16in display gives the Yoga Pro 9 more working area than a smaller portable machine, and its 3200x2000 resolution reinforces its suitability for people who want a large workspace. The trade-off is that a 16in laptop is inherently aimed more at users who value screen area and performance than those prioritising the smallest possible bag. The 2.147kg weight supports that reading: this is a portable computer, but not an ultra-light portable computer.

We do not have the chassis dimensions, so it would be wrong to make claims about its footprint, thickness, bag compatibility or whether it is unusually compact for a 16in machine. Weight alone does not reveal how much desk space it occupies or how easily it fits into a particular backpack. Anyone for whom portability is a deciding factor should check those missing dimensions before buying rather than relying only on the 2.147kg figure.

The 84Wh battery is a sizeable stated capacity, but capacity is not runtime. The supplied information does not include measured battery life, charging time or battery performance under gaming load. Gaming away from mains power is particularly difficult to assess without measured evidence, and no battery-life figure should be inferred from the 84Wh specification. It is fair to say that the laptop has an 84Wh battery; it is not fair to turn that into a claim about a number of hours of use.

The same caution applies to noise and temperatures. A 100W RTX 4050 and a Core Ultra 9 185H imply a machine with meaningful performance hardware, but the fact sheet contains no acoustic or thermal measurements. We cannot say whether the Yoga Pro 9 is quiet, loud, cool-running or hot under gaming load. Nor can we say how its performance behaves over extended sessions. Those are important ownership questions, especially at this price, but they are outside the evidence provided.

The 32GB memory configuration is more straightforward. It is a generous amount of memory for a gaming laptop, and it supports the idea that this machine is intended for more than a narrow gaming role. The specification does not tell us memory speed, upgradeability or layout, so those details should not be assumed. Still, for a buyer looking at a 16in high-resolution laptop for demanding general use alongside gaming, 32GB is one of the Yoga Pro 9's more persuasive specifications.

In practical terms, the Yoga Pro 9 is best understood as a substantial premium 16in laptop that can be moved between locations, rather than a machine selected chiefly for minimal carrying weight. If it will usually sit on a desk and occasionally travel, 2.147kg is likely easier to accept. If it will be carried every day for long periods, the weight becomes more important, particularly when compared with the appeal of a smaller machine such as the 14in Acer Nitro 14. We do not have the Acer's weight in the supplied facts, so this is not a numerical comparison, but the difference in screen class is obvious from the model names and stated 16in size of the Lenovo.

How it compares

Gigabyte Aero 14 OLED BMF: a clear measured advantage, but no confirmed UK price

Against the Gigabyte Aero 14 OLED BMF, also using an RTX 4050, the Yoga Pro 9 averages 38fps ahead across six shared games. That is the Lenovo's largest positive result among the listed rivals and a meaningful gap. It indicates that not all RTX 4050 laptops should be treated as interchangeable. The Yoga Pro 9's 100W configuration produces substantially better shared-game figures than this particular Aero 14 comparison.

That makes the Lenovo the better choice on the available gaming data if these are the two machines under consideration. The comparison does not establish why the gap exists, because the supplied facts do not provide the Aero's GPU power limit or other detailed configuration information. It is enough to say that the outcome is not close: 38fps across six shared games is a real performance advantage, not a rounding difference.

There is no confirmed UK price for the Aero 14 OLED BMF in the supplied information. That prevents a proper value verdict between the two. The Yoga Pro 9's £3,511 price may look less problematic if the alternative is similarly expensive, but it may look even harder to defend if the Aero is much cheaper. Without a confirmed price, performance is the only reliable conclusion: the Lenovo wins clearly in the shared benchmark data.

Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 2024: a near tie that should not be overinterpreted

The Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 2024 has an RTX 4070, yet the Yoga Pro 9 averages 1fps ahead across three shared games. This is a genuine near-zero result. It should not be repeated as a simplistic “RTX 4050 beats RTX 4070” claim because that would ignore what the comparison actually covers.

The shared set consists of only three games, and the supplied comparison notes explain that lighter games at 1080p can be CPU-bound. When that happens, GPU differences are compressed because the graphics chip is not the sole or main limit on the final frame rate. The Core Ultra 9 185H may therefore be as relevant as the GPU in those particular shared results. At 1080p, especially in lighter titles, an apparently surprising GPU comparison can be a sign that the games are not exposing the full difference in graphics capability.

The practical takeaway is that the Yoga Pro 9 is not embarrassed by the Zephyrus in those three tests. That is useful evidence for the Lenovo's 100W RTX 4050 configuration. But it is not enough evidence to declare the two laptops gaming equals across a wider library, nor enough to conclude that the Lenovo is the stronger gaming machine. We also have no confirmed UK price for the Zephyrus G16 2024, so value cannot be judged directly.

Acer Nitro 14: the comparison that most damages the Lenovo's value case

The Acer Nitro 14 uses an RTX 4060 at 110W and costs £1,595. Across four shared games, the Yoga Pro 9 averages 1fps behind. This is the most important rival comparison because it combines near-identical measured gaming performance with a confirmed UK price that is dramatically lower than the Lenovo's £3,511.

A 1fps difference across four shared games is effectively a tie in practical buying terms. It is not a meaningful gaming lead for either machine. The Acer's RTX 4060 at 110W does not leave the Lenovo's RTX 4050 behind in the supplied data; rather, it matches or marginally exceeds it. That outcome makes it difficult to recommend the Yoga Pro 9 to someone whose main aim is gaming performance for money.

The Lenovo does have specifications the Acer comparison does not automatically match: it has a 16in 3200x2000 IPS display, 32GB memory, a Core Ultra 9 185H, 2.147kg weight and an 84Wh battery. But the fact sheet does not provide equivalent full specifications for the Nitro 14, so a complete feature-for-feature judgement would go beyond the evidence. The reliable conclusion is narrower and still severe: the Lenovo costs far more while delivering effectively the same measured gaming performance in the shared set.

For buyers who want the best gaming value, the Nitro 14 is the rival that demands the most attention. The Yoga Pro 9 may justify its higher price only if its particular screen, memory capacity, processor and overall format are worth a very large premium to that buyer. The frame-rate data does not justify the premium on gaming grounds.

Asus ROG Strix Scar 17: much more expensive, but vastly faster

The Asus ROG Strix Scar 17 has an RTX 4090 and costs £4,864. Across seven shared games, it averages 147fps ahead of the Yoga Pro 9. This is the Lenovo's largest negative comparison and the clearest evidence that its £3,511 price is close to a much higher tier of gaming hardware without delivering that tier of performance.

The Scar 17 costs more, and the difference is not trivial. But the performance difference is also enormous. A 147fps shared-game deficit is not something that can be explained away by a small difference in settings, a marginal configuration variation or one outlying game. It establishes the Scar 17 as a fundamentally different level of gaming machine in the measured comparison.

This does not mean every buyer should automatically spend £4,864 instead. The price is far higher, and the supplied facts do not provide enough information to compare display characteristics, portability, memory or battery capacity directly. What it does mean is that the Yoga Pro 9 sits in an awkward market position. It is already expensive enough that a buyer may reasonably look upward to dedicated flagship gaming laptops, yet its RTX 4050 performance remains much closer to lower-cost machines such as the Acer Nitro 14.

The Scar 17 comparison is useful as a warning against assuming that premium pricing alone means premium gaming output. The Yoga Pro 9 has premium elements, particularly its display resolution, memory capacity and processor specification, but the notebook's measured game performance remains governed by an RTX 4050. The 147fps gap makes that plain.

Who it's for

The Lenovo Yoga Pro 9 16IMH9 RTX is for a buyer who needs a large, high-resolution laptop first and regards gaming as an important secondary use rather than the sole reason for purchase. Its strongest case is not “this is the cheapest route to high frame rates”, because the £1,595 Acer Nitro 14 comparison makes that impossible to argue. Its case is “this is a premium 16in laptop with a 3200x2000 IPS display, 165Hz refresh rate, Core Ultra 9 185H, 32GB memory, 84Wh battery and competent 100W RTX 4050 gaming performance.”

That buyer should be someone who can make real use of 32GB memory and a 16in 3200x2000 screen outside games. The specification is more convincing for mixed workloads than for gaming alone. If the display resolution and larger workspace matter throughout the day, then the RTX 4050's ability to produce 172fps in F1 22, 171fps in Strange Brigade, 164fps in The Witcher 3 and 145fps in Dota 2 becomes a useful extra. In that context, the laptop can combine high-resolution general use with genuinely enjoyable 1080p gaming.

It also suits someone whose game library leans toward the faster side of the measured results. F1 22, Strange Brigade, The Witcher 3, Dota 2 and Far Cry 5 all return 121fps or more. A buyer who mainly plays games with a similar performance profile will see much more of the 165Hz screen's potential than someone who focuses on the more demanding end of the benchmark list.

It is less suitable for a buyer who wants to use the 3200x2000 panel at its native resolution for demanding games without compromise. There are no supplied native-resolution frame rates, so no promise can be made there. The 1080p figures are good, but they already range from 172fps down to 68fps. Someone who expects the internal display's full resolution and 165Hz refresh to be routinely matched in modern demanding games should look for stronger graphics hardware and seek native-resolution benchmark data before buying.

It is also a poor fit for the buyer whose priority is gaming value. The Yoga Pro 9 is £3,511. The Acer Nitro 14 is £1,595, has an RTX 4060 at 110W and is effectively tied in the four-game shared comparison, with the Lenovo averaging 1fps behind. That does not mean the two laptops are identical products; they plainly target different sizes and specifications. It does mean the Lenovo cannot be recommended as the rational performance-per-pound option for gaming.

Buy something else if you want maximum gaming performance and are prepared to spend more. The Asus ROG Strix Scar 17 is £4,864 and averages 147fps ahead over seven shared games. It costs more, but it offers a clearly different level of measured gaming output. Buy something else if you want the lowest price for broadly comparable gaming results: the Acer Nitro 14 is the obvious alternative in the supplied data.

Buy something else if low carrying weight is your main concern. At 2.147kg, the Yoga Pro 9 is transportable but substantial. We do not have dimensions, so it cannot be judged precisely for travel, but it is not positioned by its stated weight as an ultra-light machine. Buy something else if long battery runtime, quiet operation or low temperatures are essential purchasing criteria, not because the Yoga Pro 9 necessarily fails in those areas, but because the supplied evidence does not provide measured figures for them.

The final verdict is therefore straightforward. The Lenovo Yoga Pro 9 16IMH9 RTX is a capable 1080p High gaming laptop with a 100W RTX 4050, and Notebookcheck's numbers show that it can be genuinely fast in several games. It can reach or nearly reach the 165Hz screen limit in F1 22, Strange Brigade and The Witcher 3, while remaining above 60fps in every supplied result, including Cyberpunk 2077 at 68fps. Those are real strengths.

But £3,511 is a hard price to defend from a gaming perspective. The machine is far more compelling as a high-specification, high-resolution 16in laptop that also games well than as a gaming laptop selected on frame rates alone. Buy it for the whole package only if the screen, memory and processor are central to what you need. Do not buy it expecting RTX 4090-class performance, broad 165fps results in demanding games, or confirmed native-resolution gaming figures that the available data does not provide.