Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 14” (Intel) review

Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 14 (Intel): the discrete-card folder

The IdeaPad Flex 5 14 in its Intel trim (2021) at $666 matches its AMD sibling's price and format but spends the silicon differently: an Intel Pentium Gold 7505 with a GeForce MX450 discrete card and 16GB of memory. It is the GPU-first interpretation of the same folding brief.

Where it holds up

The graphics score of 44.73 stands nearly twelve times above the convertible median of 3.84 — the discrete card's doing. Photo design posts 83 (high), value at 68.55 (high) endorses the price, and portability at 68.3 (high) keeps the carry brief intact. Performance at 50.01 runs 33.8% above the class median despite the budget CPU. The recommended-bar checks pass for Overwatch and Rainbow Six Siege, GTA V is judged by its pass flag alone, and Far Cry 5 logs a plausible 34 frames at its recommended bar; Photoshop and Visual Studio Code clear their minimums.

Where it falls short

Memory is the named weakness — 16GB against a 32GB median, the shared family ceiling. Office at 65.25 (high) survives the Pentium CPU, but the class of processor is the honest asterisk on every throughput number: gaming at 44 and modeling at 42 are clearance-tier, kept in band mostly by the MX450 rather than the compute behind it.

Price and depreciation

At $666 the class rate reads 11.12% per year with no cohort anchor for a projection — rate-only framing for the convertible segment. Like its sibling, most of the depreciation is history; the remaining drift applies to a modest base.

Alternatives to consider

The AMD sibling at the same $666 posts a higher composite score and office throughput without the discrete card — endurance and compute against graphics, decided by use case. The Yoga Slim 7 Pro 14 AMD at the same price adds H-series CPU muscle and an MX450 together, the stronger all-round $666 convertible if the slim format is acceptable.

Bottom line

Fairly priced for the class. The Flex 5 Intel is the graphics-first budget folder — a real MX450 with high-band photo design and passing game bars — with the Pentium CPU as the transparent explanation for everything else on the sheet.