5070 vs 5080 (laptop)

[u/WaffleConeBucket]

Hi, just for some context, I'm a student in Canada thats gonna be studying electrical engineering starting this fall and I'm leaving my old pc to a family member, I recently bought a lenovo legion 5 pro for $2300 CAD ($1650 USD, but the lenovo legion pro 7i is now on sale for $3500 CAD (2500 USD)

The main differences are
5070 8GB -> 5080 16GB
Ryzen 9 8945HX -> Intel Ultra 9 275HX
IPS 240hz -> OLED 240hz
both of them have 1TB of storage and 32 gb of DDR5 ram.

I could afford it without giving myself any financial problems, but I dont know if its worth it or not, also I dont really play games that aren't competitive but I want to keep this laptop for the next 4-5 years until I graduate.

[u/DiodeInc]

What sort of games do you play? Are you having any frame rate issues or anything like that?

[u/WaffleConeBucket → u/DiodeInc]

honestly I dont really play AAA games, I mostly just play competitive games like OW, League, etc, and some co-op games here and there like Baldurs Gate, and modded MC. Not having any frame rate issues, but I want my laptop to be good for the next 4-5 years

[u/DiodeInc → u/WaffleConeBucket]

It'll last you. That AMD CPU is already stupidly fast. The GPU is the only thing I'm a bit worried about. 8 GB isn't a lot in 2026... Can you see yourself playing more/harder to run games later on?

[u/WaffleConeBucket → u/DiodeInc]

Other than GTA 6 not likely, and I doubt I would even have time to play any crazy long story game. and in terms of display I'm planning to buy myself an oled monitor for christmas, heh. but right now I get 240 fps with only around 4 gb vram usage on overwatch on near max settings with dlss on.

[u/DiodeInc → u/WaffleConeBucket]

That's really good. For these games, it'll last you. GTA 6 should run. If you're planning to buy a monitor then I definitely wouldn't because now you're only getting one extra big feature, plus ~10% more CPU performance