As a high-end personal PC product launched for high-end youths who pursue the ultimate, Lenovo YOGA series notebooks have always been known for technological innovation and ultimate experience. Lenovo YOGA Air 15 Aura AI Yuanqi Edition debuted the world's first second-generation Intel Core Ultra processor, and when the Core Ultra met YOGA Air, it generated a spark of creativity and passion, bringing users a revolutionary experience.
What's more noteworthy is that the Lenovo YOGA Air 15 Aura AI Yuanqi Edition has achieved a perfect balance between productivity and portability, breaking the impossible triangle of the notebook's "thinness, performance, and battery life", while ensuring that the performance does not shrink in the absence of an external power supply, all the data in this evaluation are measured in battery mode, which can better demonstrate the hard core power of this notebook.
1 Debuted the new Core, witnessing super strength
Lenovo YOGA Air 15 Aura AI Yuanqi Edition is equipped with Intel Core Ultra 7 258V for the first time, with 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores, and the performance core turbo frequency acceleration is up to 4.8GHz, which has achieved performance improvement while reducing energy consumption by up to 50% by upgrading TSMC's N3B process technology.
In addition, the Core Ultra 7 258V also has a new architecture and instruction set, using a package-level memory architecture to directly connect to the CPU, with a memory frequency of up to 8533MT/s, and an increase in per-thread processing performance of energy efficiency cores by up to 3 times.
Judging from the actual test data, the CINEBENCH R23 multi-core score of Lenovo YOGA Air 15 Aura AI Yuanqi Edition scored 11001 points, and the single-core score scored 1845 points, and the overall performance was excellent.
In 3DMark's CPU Profile test, the Core Ultra 7 258V also shines, with a high score of 1134 for a single thread and a score of 6203 for the largest thread.
With the addition of the new Xe2 architecture high-performance graphics card, Lenovo YOGA Air 15 Aura AI Yuanqi Edition has also made a qualitative leap in graphics processing. Peak performance is increased by 1.8x, XeSS technology is supported in 120+ games, the average GPU performance is increased by 1.3x, and the maximum game performance is increased by 1.6x, which allows users to get smoother and more detailed picture effects in the process of creation and entertainment.
In the 3DMAK test, the Lenovo YOGA Air 15 Aura AI Yuanqi Edition had a Time Spy score of 4356 points, including a graphics card score of 4114 points; In the Fire Strike test, this notebook scored a high score of 8640, of which the graphics card score was 9392 points, which is a very good score in the core graphics card.
Coming to the actual game scene, we first tested the game with "CS2", which has upgraded the Source2 game engine. This game does not have its own benchmark, we choose the 10v10 multiplayer mode to experience, at 1920×1200 resolution, the preset medium image quality, the game's frame rate is between 90-120, and there is no significant reduction in multiplayer melee scenes, which can meet the needs of casual mode.
Next is the game test of "Shadow of the Tomb Raider", we set the resolution of 1920x1080, preset high image quality, and turn on XeSS optimization, the game's built-in frame rate test software gets 58fps performance, and with a 120Hz refresh rate screen, you can experience this masterpiece relatively smoothly.
In the "Cyberpunk 2077" test, which has higher hardware requirements, we also set the resolution of 1920x1080, preset the medium image quality, and turn on XeSS optimization, and the game's built-in frame rate test tool obtained an average frame rate of 45.56, although it is not smooth, but it can also meet the experience of early adopters.
Finally, we conducted the frame rate test of Borderlands 3, which also set the resolution to 1920x1080, the preset medium image quality, and the game's built-in frame rate test tool obtained an average frame rate of 43.88, and the overall game experience is similar to that of Cyberpunk 2077.
Judging from the game frame rate test, the performance improvement of Ruixuan 140V core graphics is still very obvious, compared with the previous generation, different games can get about 10%-20% performance improvement, and at the same time, the power consumption is lower, which is particularly important for the battery life of thin and light laptops.
2 Dual computing power upgrade, productivity in one step
Next is the productivity test, Lenovo YOGA Air 15 Aura AI Yuanqi Edition is equipped with Intel Core Ultra 7 258V GPU and NPU has been greatly improved, providing up to 115 TOPS computing power, and AI performance has increased by an average of 58%, which means that productivity creation has also been greatly upgraded.
The first is to test the PCMARK10 of computer integrated office and productivity creation. The Lenovo YOGA Air 15 Aura AI scored 7059 points in the overall test, including common features, productivity creation, and digital content creation, even with 3D content creation and video editing.
In the UL Procyon theoretical performance test, the NPU Float16 test and the GPU Float16 test were tested for NPU and GPU respectively, and from the results, the NPU performance of Lenovo YOGAAir 15 Aura AI Yuanqi Edition reached 972 points, and the GPU reached 881 points, which is as much as 260% and 89% higher than the 272 and 467 points of the previous generation.
In the creation of Wensheng diagrams, we set up 20 iterations, turned on high-resolution repair, and it took 10 minutes to generate 6 512x512 graphs, with an average of about 100 seconds per image.
Then we deployed Intel's large language model chatglm3 in the Lenovo YOGA Air 15 Aura AI Yuanqi version, and after completing the loading, we selected the iGPU to set the maximum output length of 512, and the actual response time used was only 558ms, which is less than 0.6 seconds, which can be said to be very fast.
3 Lenovo Xiaotian blessing, wisdom further
Lenovo YOGA Air 15 Aura AI Yuanqi Edition's hardware performance is undoubted, Lenovo also equips it with an easy-to-use and practical software ecosystem, first of all, this notebook continues the highly acclaimed performance mode switching, just press the Fn+Q shortcut key, you can switch between energy-saving mode, intelligent mode and beast mode at will, which is convenient for users to switch between different working states suitable for different scenarios.
Users who are familiar with Lenovo notebooks must be familiar with Lenovo Xiaotian,Lenovo YOGA Air 15 Aura AI Yuanqi Edition is also pre-installed with Lenovo Xiaotian,Driven by the embedded local Tianxi large model,You can interact naturally with users,With Core Ultra 7 258VXiaotianshengwenThe speed is increased53%,The actual response is very fast。
In addition,Lenovo Xiaotian also comes with a number of practical functions,Including making PPT,Summarize document summaries,Make meeting minutes, etc.,After expanding the module on the left, you can open the corresponding function with one click,It is very convenient to use。
In addition, this notebook has Lenovo's self-developed AI scheduling algorithm and Al Core tuning chip, with Lenovo's self-developed spiritual engine for exclusive tuning of 100+ professional software, including 3D rendering, video editing and graphics processing, which can intelligently perceive the user's current use scenario, bringing great convenience and efficiency to the creative crowd.
Lenovo YOGA Air 15 Aura AI Yuanqi Edition also supports Intel's in-depth cooperation with the Lenovo Aura Edition function, in which the Smart Share function is based on Intel Unison's unbounded interconnection technology, which supports Android and iOS mobile phones and PCs to touch and transfer, which greatly facilitates users to use the file transfer function.
What's more noteworthy is that Lenovo YOGA Air 15 Aura AI Yuanqi Edition is equipped with a new super interconnection, which applies Lenovo's self-developed Superlink patent-level technology, super audio and video codec technology, and the application cross-screen delay is as low as 40ms, providing file transfer station, application transmission station, equipment hub station and other practical functions, supporting mobile phones and tablet applications across screens, and easily enjoying cross-terminal sharing of multiple device screens, computing power shuttle.
It is worth mentioning that Lenovo YOGA Air 15 Aura AI Yuanqi Edition has a built-in 70Wh large-capacity battery, combined with Lenovo AI Core's self-developed scheduling chip, the battery life has been greatly improved. Under the setting of black theme, screen refresh rate · 60Hz, screen brightness 150nit, the battery life of playing local videos is up to 24 hours, and the battery life has also reached 13 hours in the scene of simulating real office, which can fully meet the needs of mobile office.
4 Lightest to lightest design, inspiration is free
The performance of the Lenovo YOGA Air 15 Aura AI Yuanqi Edition is second to none among thin and light laptops, and it is also unique in terms of exterior design, this notebook uses Lenovo's self-developed silk aluminum process, and 180 mesh fine zircon sand creates a 0.2 micron surface crystal structure, making it have a unique feel.
What's even more eye-catching is,LenovoYOGA Air 15 Aura AI Yuanqi Edition is equipped with a2.8K resolution、120HzProfessional super sensitive screen,The screen size has reached15.3 inches,Compared with 14.5 inches, the size has increased18%,The display content can be increased by about 28%,ExcelThe sheet can display 7 more lines of content,Adobe Premiere can display 4 more video tracks and audio tracks,It brings incomparable advantages to content creation。
In addition, this screen also covers100%DCI-P3 and 100%sRGB color gamut,△E<1,Restore real color,The creative experience is more realistic,Plus T-Con chip-level color calibration,Color correction files are not lost,No fear of reloading the system。
Lenovo YOGA Air 15 Aura AI Yuanqi Edition's screen also supports ten-point touch, which provides users with a more convenient way to operate outdoors or in the case of inconvenient use of mouse and trackpad, at the same time, DC dimming flicker-free and more eye-friendly, the screen has also passed the Rheinland low blue light certification and eyesafe 2.0 eye protection certification, and it is not easy to get tired after long-term use.
What's more subtle is that Lenovo has condensed the Core Ultra 7 258V, 15.3-inch eye protection screen, and 70Wh large battery into the Lenovo YOGA Air 15 Aura AI Yuanqi Edition as light as 1.5kg and as thin as 13.9mm body, finding the perfect balance between productivity and portability, while ensuring the sturdiness and durability of the structure, breaking the impossible triangle of "thinness, performance, and battery life" of the laptop. Coupled with the standard 49cc GaN mini travel adapter, it's easy to work on the go.
The lightest and thinnest Lenovo YOGA Air 15 Aura AI Yuanqi Edition is also unambiguous in terms of interface configuration, not only equipped with 2 full-blooded Thunderbolt 4 ports, but also equipped with a USB-A port, an HDMI 2.1 port and a 3.5mm audio jack, as well as an independent camera switch, the ease of use should not be underestimated.
Lenovo has also spared no effort in optimizing the details, the 6.2-inch smart touchpad is not only larger in area, but also feels better, the customized silk aluminum material provides a delicate feel while not easy to stain fingerprints, and the silicon crystal mechanical design is more silent. The Rhythm keyboard uses 1.5mm comfortable key travel, 0.3mm key belly curve for a comfortable feel, and an excimer coating that is skin-friendly and oil-resistant, and the user experience is upgraded.
Mobile office has higher requirements for the durability of notebooks, and Lenovo YOGA Air 15 Aura AI Yuanqi Edition has undergone 11 reliability tests, including high temperature and low temperature, mechanical shock, and vibration tests, and is safe and easy to use in different scenarios. In addition, Lenovo also provides a 2-year warranty for this notebook, 180 days of accident insurance, and unlimited online consultation, after the free upgrade of YOGA black gold membership, you can upgrade to 2 years unlimited free door-to-door visits, up to 2 years of accident insurance, 1v1 enterprise micro exclusive housekeeper, 1 year Leyun gold VIP, it can be described as very luxurious.
As the pinnacle of technology and aesthetics, the Lenovo YOGA Air 15 Aura AI Yuanqi Edition perfectly combines the ultimate thin and light design, unparalleled excellent performance, and trend-setting cutting-edge AI technology, which not only profoundly interprets the core concept of "all-day power, great promise", but also redefines and redefines a new benchmark for the future of office and creative work with an unprecedented innovative attitude.
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