New testing of Lenovo’s 16-inch Yoga 9n 2-in-1 gives buyers a closer look at how Nvidia’s RTX Spark platform performs in a Windows convertible. In a November 12 review, Tom’s Guide found the Yoga competitive with another RTX Spark laptop in CPU testing, while a high-end MacBook Pro led the Yoga in its creative benchmarks.
Lenovo lists configurations with 18- and 20-core N1X processors, with 5,120 and 6,144 GPU cores respectively. The larger configuration can pair the 20-core chip with 64 GB of shared memory. A benchmark from that configuration does not establish performance for the 18-core model.
In Tom’s Guide’s Geekbench 6 tests, its 64 GB Yoga scored 3,076 single-core and 20,084 multi-core. Its RTX Spark HP OmniBook Ultra 16 with 32 GB scored 3,165 and 20,056. The 128 GB 16-inch MacBook Pro with M5 Max scored 4,359 and 30,327 and also led the Yoga in the outlet’s Photoshop and Premiere Pro tests. The comparison covers those configurations and workloads. The Mac was the M5 Max model.
StorageReview independently tested a 20-core Yoga with 64 GB of LPDDR5X and a 1 TB PCIe 4.0 SSD on Windows 11 Arm64. In Lenovo Performance mode with the laptop plugged in, its MLPerf Client 2.0 test measured 54.4 tokens per second for Llama 3.1 8B using llama.cpp with CUDA. The lab reported that 32 GB was usable by the GPU in its configuration, and the lab skipped its larger Qwen3.6-35B-A3B workload because it required about 40 GB of GPU memory.
Tom’s Guide also reported that Red Dead Redemption 2 did not run in its test and that Far Cry 6 did not run properly. Those observations describe the review unit and software the outlet tested. Compatibility and benchmark results can vary by game, application, driver and configuration.
Editorial Opinion
The Yoga’s test results make a stronger case for checking specific workloads than for choosing a platform by chip brand. A buyer who runs local models should check how much memory the intended configuration makes available to the GPU and whether the model fits. Someone buying for games or creative work should start with tests of the applications they actually use.
References
Bacchus, A. (2026, November 12). I tested Lenovo’s Yoga 9n 2-in-1 against the MacBook Pro for two weeks — impressive OLED and AI smarts cannot make up for poor gaming and weaker raw power. Tom’s Guide.
Beeler, B. (2026, October 16). Lenovo Yoga 9n 2-in-1 16 review: The coolest-running RTX Spark notebook. StorageReview.
Lenovo. (2026, October 29). Yoga 9 2-in-1 16N1X11 [Product specifications].
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