Enter the arena with this slim, lightweight, portable gaming PC, that easily plays your games. Powered by 7th Gen Intel® Core™ processors and up to NVIDIA GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 560 discrete graphics, and featuring premium audio and optional dual drive storage for added speed, it’s ready for action. A red backlit keyboard lets you play day or night, while its optimized thermal engineering keeps it cool for as long as you want to play – which will probably be a while.
Featuring the latest generation of processors, the Y520 sports up to a 7th Gen Intel® Core i7 CPU. With a 12-percent increase in productivity compared to previous processors and a 19-percent increase in web performance via a dedicated media engine, you can enjoy the latest in gaming performance and online gameplay.
The Y520 comes with up to NVIDIA GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 560 graphics, which allow you to play games smoothly and with capable frame rates. So escort the payload in a first-person shooter knowing this gaming laptop delivers all the performance you need.
Play games smoothly, with capable frame rates.
Premium-quality audio means more immersive gaming.
The Y520 comes with up to 512GB of PCIe SSD storage, ideal for reducing boot-up time and in-game loading, or 2TB of HDD storage, perfect for storing your entire gaming collection. Or you can do both and opt for hybrid storage, effectively getting the best of both worlds.
With or without gaming headphones, the Lenovo Legion Y520 Laptop has you covered with 2x 2W Harman speakers with Dolby Audio Premium. Dolby Audio Premium is custom-tuned to deliver premium-quality audio for all content, for truly immersive gameplay.
Easily customize your settings, such as audio, active keys, cooling, and network priority – so you can focus on the game. Then, once you’re in the zone, record your highlights for replaying or uploading to streaming sites. Lenovo Nerve Sense makes it effortless.
The Y520 features a red-backlit keyboard, perfect for those late-night gaming sessions. This brilliantly crimson backlit keyboard features keys with 1.7mm of key travel distance, delivering crisp, accurate and responsive keystrokes perfect for in-game chatting and gameplay.
Easily customize settings with Lenovo Nerve Sense.
Strategically engineered fans keep your system cool.
Starting at a mere 1.01" / 25.8mm thick and only 5.5lbs / 2.5kg in weight, wrapped in a smudge-resistant body, this gaming laptop goes wherever you do. So just toss the Y520 in your bag and enjoy powerful mobile gaming no matter where you go.
The Y520 was designed to fight heat with strategically engineered fans and vents. Located close to the graphics card and processors, this fan system keeps hot air moving while rear-placed thermal vents remove that heat. Furthermore, you can use the Extreme Cooling shortcut within Lenovo Nerve Sense for gaming firefights that require an additional push of cooling.
Processor | Up to 7th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-7700HQ Processor (2.80GHz 6MB) |
Operating System |
Windows 10 Home Windows 10 Pro - Lenovo recommends Windows 10 Pro |
Graphics |
AMD Radeon™ RX 560 4GB NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 3GB NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1050 Ti 4GB |
Memory | Up to 16GB DDR4 2400 MHz |
Storage |
Up to 2TB 5400 RPM Up to 512GB PCie SSD Dual Drive Configurations available. (HDD + SSD) |
Audio | 2 x 2W Harman™ Certified Speakers with Dolby Audio™ Premium |
Battery Life |
Up to 4 hours 45 Hr Li-Polymer Battery |
Display | 15.6" FHD (1920 x 1080) IPS Anti-Glare LED Backlight with integrated camera |
Dimensions (W x D x H) |
14.96" x 10.43" x 1.01" / 380 x 265 x 25.8 (mm) (NVIDIA) 14.96" x 10.43" x 1.09" / 380 x 265 x 27.8 (mm) (Radeon) |
Weight |
Starting at 5.29 lbs (2.4 kg) (NVIDIA) Starting at 5.5 lbs (2.5 kg) (Radeon) |
Color | Black |
WLAN & Bluetooth® | Up to Lenovo AC Wireless (2x2) WiFi + Bluetooth® 4.1 |
LAN | 10/100/1000M Gigabit Ethernet |
Ports |
1 x USB 3.0 (Type-C) 2 x USB 3.0 1 x USB 2.0 1 x MiniDP (With GTX1060 Model only) 1 x HDMI™ Audio Jack Microphone Jack RJ45 LAN 4-in-1 Card Reader (SD, SDHC, SDXC, MMC) (With GTX1050Ti & RX-560M GPU) |
Preloaded Software |
Power2Go (Blu-ray Disc™ / DVD) PowerDVD (Blu-ray Disc™ / DVD) Microsoft Office 365 (Trial) Lenovo Companion Lenovo Nerve Sense Magic Y Key Lenovo OneKey Recovery Lenovo ID |