Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Gen 10 (16IAX10H): which AI models can it run?

Estimated from the specifications below. Choose the memory size you have or plan to buy, then read the table for that size.

Specifications

Brand
Lenovo
Chip
Intel Core Ultra HX
Processor
Intel Core Ultra HX (see PSREF)
Graphics
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Laptop GPU
Memory type
DDR5-6400 SODIMM
Memory options
64 GB
Graphics memory
12 GB
Memory bandwidth
672 GB/s

Sources: https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/Legion/Legion_Pro_7_16IAX10H/Legion_Pro_7_16IAX10H_Spec.pdf, https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/laptops/50-series/

PSREF states up to 64GB; smaller options are not itemised. GPU bandwidth from NVIDIA's RTX 50 laptop page.

With 64 GB of memory

About 12 GB of it can hold a model.

ModelFitNeeds (GB)Writing speed (tokens per second)SpeedQualityBasis
Llama 3.2 3B
llama3.2:3b
Fits 5 118 to 218 Fast not measured yet Estimated
Qwen3 4B
qwen3:4b · thinks first
Fits 6 94 to 175 Fast not measured yet Estimated
Gemma 3 4B
gemma3:4b
Fits 6.7 71 to 132 Fast not measured yet Estimated
Mistral 7B v0.3
mistral:7b
Fits 7.8 53 to 99 Fast not measured yet Estimated
Llama 3.1 8B
llama3.1:8b
Fits 8.3 48 to 89 Fast not measured yet Estimated
Qwen3 8B
qwen3:8b · thinks first
Fits 8.9 45 to 84 Fast not measured yet Estimated
Gemma 3 12B
gemma3:12b
Part of the model runs from system memory, which is much slower.
Partial offload (slow) 15.9 4.4 to 8.1 Unclear could be Slow or Moderate not measured yet Estimated
DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B
deepseek-r1:14b · thinks first
Part of the model runs from system memory, which is much slower.
Partial offload (slow) 13.7 3.9 to 7.3 Unclear could be Slow or Moderate not measured yet Estimated
Phi-4 14B
phi4:14b
Part of the model runs from system memory, which is much slower.
Partial offload (slow) 13.9 3.9 to 7.2 Unclear could be Slow or Moderate not measured yet Estimated
Qwen3 14B
qwen3:14b · thinks first
Part of the model runs from system memory, which is much slower.
Partial offload (slow) 13.4 3.8 to 7 Unclear could be Slow or Moderate not measured yet Estimated
gpt-oss 20B
gpt-oss:20b · thinks first
Part of the model runs from system memory, which is much slower.
Partial offload (slow) 16.5 8.8 to 16 Unclear could be Moderate or Fast not measured yet Estimated
Gemma 3 27B
gemma3:27b
Part of the model runs from system memory, which is much slower.
Partial offload (slow) 27.2 2.1 to 3.9 Slow not measured yet Estimated
Qwen3 30B (A3B)
qwen3:30b · thinks first
Part of the model runs from system memory, which is much slower.
Partial offload (slow) 22.6 10 to 19 Fast 9.3/10 Estimated
Qwen3 32B
qwen3:32b · thinks first
Part of the model runs from system memory, which is much slower.
Partial offload (slow) 26.3 1.8 to 3.3 Slow not measured yet Estimated
Llama 3.1 70B
llama3.1:70b
Part of the model runs from system memory, which is much slower.
Partial offload (slow) 51.5 0.8 to 1.5 Slow not measured yet Estimated
gpt-oss 120B
gpt-oss:120b · thinks first
Part of the model runs from system memory, which is much slower.
Partial offload (slow) 70.5 7.5 to 14 Unclear could be Moderate or Fast not measured yet Estimated

Models marked "thinks first" can write out their reasoning before they answer, so a job takes longer than the speed alone suggests.

Speed is the speed of writing an answer, shown as a range. Reading speed is not estimated. How the estimates work · How close they are · Back to the finder