Upgraded Lenovo Ideapad 3 15ALC6 Shows Powerful Gaming Performance Sporting Ryzen 5 5500U Running At 8GB DDR4 Memory

Amazing Lenovo Ideapad 3 15ALC6 possesses decent gaming specs sporting Ryzen 5 5500U mid-range laptop APU from AMD. Integrated graphics is based on RX Vega architecture with 7 compute units.

Unfortunately, dual-channel memory is only can be configured at 8GB size being two 4GB sticks because manufacturer had installed 4GB module as onboard. Anyhow, gaming performance is exorbitantly good in Valorant online shooter title.

Our technical team from Own Snap has tested GTA Online and Valorant games for about 3 hours while constant charging from power adapter. For prominent Ryzen 5 5500U GTA Online settings were Medium to Low quality with MSAA and FXAA off and performance reached 70 fps at 1080p resolution.

Battery packs only 36.7Wh capacity which is pretty sustainable for office work and browsing on the go. Turning on conservative mode to protect the battery from overcharging is an obligation for casual gamers.

Storage wise, Lenovo Ideapad 3 15ALC6 offers SSD slot which consists single SATA and M.2 ports. Out of the box configuration is 512GB NVMe SSD. Still better than 256GB size albeit gaming storage issues kick in.

Overall, casual gamers should look for latest Ryzen 7 8840U APU powered systems in order to achieve higher frame rate in competitive titles.