![]() Powering the Lenovo IdeaPad S540 is a 52.5Wh three-cell non-removable lithium-ion battery. The same goes for basic image and video editing. But if your colleague at work says there’s a new platformer that you’ve simply got to play, then the IdeaPad S540 shouldn’t let you down. On the whole, the IdeaPad S540 isn’t cut out for running games. ![]() ![]() Surprisingly, there wasn’t too much fan noise even when the laptop was placed inside a quiet bedroom. The CPU package recorded temperatures well over 50 degrees Celsius and the Nvidia graphics card inside hovered around 43 degrees Celsius. Despite the 60+ frame clock, there were several stutters while playing Metro: Last Light, even on the lowest setting.ĭuring gameplay, the WASD keys on the review unit got a bit warm but not enough to cause any discomfort. Metro: Last Light, however, ran on the same settings at an average frame rate of 77 frames per second. Doom ran on Medium graphics settings at Full HD resolution at an average frame rate of 30 frames per second. While it wasn’t naturally adept at running games, it wasn’t terrible either. Thanks to the dedicated Nvidia GeForce MX250 graphics card on board, the review unit lends itself to graphics-based work more readily than other Intel UHD Graphics-powered models. A full solid-state-drive storage setup is more preferable though. Save for the minor but noticeable lag caused by the bundled hard drive, the performance on the IdeaPad S540 is acceptable for its price. That one or two extra seconds the laptop took to switch between windows became a little annoying while multitasking. But switching between open applications and reading files stored on the hard drive took some time. Launching common applications such as Chrome, File Explorer, Word, and OneNote for the first time after booting up took no more than two or three seconds. With Windows sitting on the solid-state drive, I was able to cold-boot to the desktop in under twenty-three seconds. These figures are roughly three times better than the scores bagged by the IdeaPad S340 and approximately thirty percent better than the scores bagged by the Asus VivoBook 14 X412, which features an Nvidia GeForce MX230 GPU.Įveryday performance of our review unit was good but not great let me explain why. On 3DMark’s Fire Strike and Cloud Gate, the review unit bagged 304 points, respectively. On PCMark 8’s Accelerated Creative test, the IdeaPad S540 bagged 3584 points, which is a little more than the IdeaPad S340’s 3464 and a little lower than the Asus VivoBook 14 X412’s 3758. The review unit fared decently on our CPU and GPU benchmark tests. Discrete graphics came in the form of an Nvidia GeForce MX250 graphics card with 2GB of GDDR5 video RAM. Storage was handled by a 128GB PCIe NVMe solid-state drive and a WDC 1TB hard drive spinning at 5,400rpm. Our review unit was powered by an Intel 8th Gen Core i5 CPU along with 8GB RAM. They also come with a minimum of 8GB RAM and a proper solid-state drive. Performance & GamingĪll variants of the IdeaPad S540 ship with discrete graphics on Lenovo’s official website. ![]() With the new IdeaPad’s market placement sorted, let’s get started with its performance in our test lab. You can read our review of the IdeaPad 530S here. So we can safely assume that the IdeaPad S540 is here to take the place of the latter. But in India, we only had the IdeaPad 530S in the same premium mid-range market last year. Internationally, it appears to replace the IdeaPad S530. It’s hard to say exactly which model the new IdeaPad S540 replaces. You can find our review of the two models here, and here, respectively. Available in a 14-inch and 15.6-inch avatar, the premium mid-range IdeaPad S540 understandably sits a little above the mid-range IdeaPad S340 and well above the entry-level IdeaPad S145. The IdeaPad S540 is the last in the new ’40’ line of IdeaPad S laptops that Lenovo launched earlier this year to replace its 2018 models.
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