Why is the Y540 more expensive than the 5?

Hello all.

A few months ago I bought a Legion Y540 with an i7-9750H, Radeon RTX2060, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD and 1TB HD for under 1300 Euro. This was on Amazon. After buying it, it skyrocketed to around 1600 Euro. So, it looked like a good grab.

Last week I found a similar one in a store for 999 Euro, the only difference being a single 512GB SSD. I was about to buy it as well, because I needed another laptop, when I found that the Legion 5 with Ryzen 7 4800H was on Amazon at the same price. I double checked and the other characteristics were the same: 16GB RAM, RTX2060, 512GB SSD. The only thing is that it had no OS, but that didn't bother me.

I have checked both computers with Cinebench and the Legion 5 with Ryzen smokes the Intel Y540 with 11123 pts vs 5856. I know their day-to-day performance will be quite the same, but for specific things it's twice the processing power. I had looked for a Ryzen one when I bought the Y540, but there was none at the time.

What puzzles me is that the Legion Y540 is still a few hundred Euro more expensive in Amazon than the Legion 5. And I cannot understand why. I'm even getting tempted to sell the Y540 for a thousand Euro and grab another Legion 5 with Ryzen CPU.

Any ideas as why can it be?

Thanks.

 

maybe because people feel the 9th gen cpu is better in terms of thermal perf and able to be undervolted way more than the 10th gens

 

I've decided not to get rid of the Y540, first because I don't think I will get the whole money back.
But the most important reason is: from the first moment I noticed that the display of the Legion 5 didn't look as good as the Y540's. So I ran Sandra and this is what I found:

Y540's panel
Legion 5's panel

It's a shame that one can't know that beforehand.

 

depenfs

but screen depends on configuration