Dell XPS 16 (9640) vs Lenovo Legion 5i Gen 11 (2026)

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Dell XPS 16 (9640) (88/100)

Dell XPS 16 (9640) leads overall with a score of 88/100 compared to Lenovo Legion 5i Gen 11 (2026) (62/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

[ WINNER ]
Dell XPS 16 (9640)
Dell

Dell XPS 16 (9640)

88/100
· $1899
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Lenovo Legion 5i Gen 11 (2026)
Lenovo

Lenovo Legion 5i Gen 11 (2026)

62/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Dell XPS 16 (9640) Lenovo Legion 5i Gen 11 (2026)
Battery Life 82.0 Very Good —
Display 96.0 Excellent —
Gaming 84.0 Very Good WINNER 48.0 Poor
NanoReview Score 88.0 Very Good WINNER 62.0 Average
Performance 89.0 Very Good WINNER 70.0 Good

Detailed Technical Specifications

Battery

Battery specifications comparison
Specification Dell XPS 16 (9640) Lenovo Legion 5i Gen 11 (2026)
Battery Wh 99.5 Wh —
Battery type — Li-Po
Charge power — 245 W
Charging port position — Left, Bottom
Charging via USB (Power Delivery) — Yes, 100 W
Fast charging — Yes
Replaceable — No

Design

Design specifications comparison
Specification Dell XPS 16 (9640) Lenovo Legion 5i Gen 11 (2026)
Weight 2.20 kg (4.85 lbs) CNC Aluminum 1.87 kg (4.12 lbs)

Display

Display specifications comparison
Specification Dell XPS 16 (9640) Lenovo Legion 5i Gen 11 (2026)
Screen Size 16.3 inches 4K+ OLED Touch (3840 x 2400) —
Adaptive refresh rate — No
Ambient light sensor — No
Aspect ratio — 16:10
Coating — Glossy
Contrast — 1000000:1
DCI-P3 color gamut — 100%
HDR support — Yes, Dolby Vision
PPI — 197 ppi
Refresh rate — 165 Hz
Resolution — 2560 x 1600 pixels
Response time — 1 ms
Size — 15.3 inches
Sync technology — G-Sync
Touchscreen — No
Type — OLED
sRGB color space — 100%

Performance

Performance specifications comparison
Specification Dell XPS 16 (9640) Lenovo Legion 5i Gen 11 (2026)
Cpu Intel Core Ultra 7 155H (16 cores, up to 4.8 GHz, Intel AI Boost) —
Gpu NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop (8 GB GDDR6, 60W) —
Ram 32 GB LPDDR5X-7467 MHz —
Storage 1 TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD —

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Dell XPS 16 (9640) Lenovo Legion 5i Gen 11 (2026)
Base frequency — 1.9 GHz
Cores — 16 (4P + 12E)
Fabrication process — 2 nm
Integrated GPU — Intel Xe3 Graphics (4-Core)
L3 Cache — 18 MB
Threads — 16
Turbo frequency — 4.7 GHz

Case

Case specifications comparison
Specification Dell XPS 16 (9640) Lenovo Legion 5i Gen 11 (2026)
Area — 841 cm2(130.4 inches2)
Colors — White, Black
Cooling system — Active
Dimensions — 344 x 244.5 x 18.95-19.95 mm13.54 x 9.63 x 0.75-0.79 inches
Liquid metal — No
Material — Top: AluminumMiddle: PlasticBottom: Plastic
Number of fans — 2
Opening angle — 180°
Screen-to-body ratio — ~80.7%
Side bezels — 7.3 mm
Transformer — No
Vapor chamber — No
Weight 2.20 kg (4.85 lbs) CNC Aluminum 1.87 kg (4.12 lbs)

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Dell XPS 16 (9640) Lenovo Legion 5i Gen 11 (2026)
Audio jack (3.5 mm) — Yes
Bluetooth — v5.4
DisplayPort — No
Ethernet (RJ45) — Yes
Fingerprint — No
HDMI — 1x HDMI 2.1
Infrared sensor — Optional
Optical drive — No
Proprietary charging port — Yes
SD card reader — No
Thunderbolt — Thunderbolt 4
USB Type-C — 2x USB 4.0
USB-A — 3x USB 3.2
VGA — No
Webcam — Above the display
Webcam resolution — 2560 x 1440
Wi-Fi standard — v7

GPU Benchmarks

GPU Benchmarks specifications comparison
Specification Dell XPS 16 (9640) Lenovo Legion 5i Gen 11 (2026)
Blender GPU — 3414
Solar Bay — 55639

Graphics Card

Graphics Card specifications comparison
Specification Dell XPS 16 (9640) Lenovo Legion 5i Gen 11 (2026)
FLOPS — 18.4 TFLOPS
GPU performance — 18.4 TFLOPS
Memory bus — 128 bit
Memory size — 8 GB
Memory speed — ~24 Gbps
Memory type — GDDR7
Nvidia Optimus — Yes, Advanced Optimus
Raster operations pipelines (ROPs) — 48
Shading units (cores) — 3328
TGP — 115 W
Texture mapping units (TMUs) — 104

Input

Input specifications comparison
Specification Dell XPS 16 (9640) Lenovo Legion 5i Gen 11 (2026)
Backlight — Yes
Key travel — 1.6 mm
Keyboard type — Island
Numpad — Yes
Surface — Plastic
Windows Precision — Yes

RAM

RAM specifications comparison
Specification Dell XPS 16 (9640) Lenovo Legion 5i Gen 11 (2026)
Channels — 1x8 GB
Clock — 5600 MHz
Max. ram size — 64 GB
Total slots — 2
Upgradable — Yes

Sound

Sound specifications comparison
Specification Dell XPS 16 (9640) Lenovo Legion 5i Gen 11 (2026)
Audio chip — Realtek ALC3287
Dolby Atmos — No
Microphones — 2
Power — 2x2W
Speakers — 2.0

Storage

Storage specifications comparison
Specification Dell XPS 16 (9640) Lenovo Legion 5i Gen 11 (2026)
Bus — PCI-E Gen 5.0 (4x)
NVMe — Yes
Storage type — SSD (M2)

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