The Lenovo LOQ 15APH8 is a gaming laptop with a footprint of 359 x 264 mm and a thickness of just 22 mm, resulting in a total volume of 2,085.072 cm³. It weighs 2,400 g and relies on an active cooling system, as it does not use a fanless design. The unit includes a backlit keyboard for low-light use and carries a two-year warranty. It is not weather-sealed or splashproof.
The laptop features a 15.6″ IPS LCD panel with LED backlighting, delivering a resolution of 1920 x 1080 px at a pixel density of 141 ppi. A 144Hz refresh rate makes it well-suited for fast-paced content, while typical brightness sits at 350 nits. The screen includes an anti-reflection coating but does not support touch input. The system can drive up to 4 displays simultaneously.
The system is powered by an 8-core CPU running at 3.8 GHz base with a turbo clock of 5.1 GHz, supporting 16 threads and multithreading, and built on a 5 nm process node. It comes with 16GB of DDR5 RAM at 5600 MHz across two memory slots, expandable up to 32GB, paired with a 1024GB NVMe SSD using flash storage and a PCIe 4.0 interface. On the graphics side, the GPU carries 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM, clocks at 1545 MHz base and up to 2370 MHz in boost, and delivers 14.56 TFLOPS of floating-point performance alongside a texture rate of 227.52 GTexels/s and a pixel rate of 113.76 GPixel/s. The GPU supports DirectX 12 Ultimate and 64-bit operation, though XeSS (XMX) is not available.
In CPU benchmarking, the laptop scores 10,994 in Geekbench 6 multi-core and 2,357 in the single-core test, reflecting the processor's threaded and per-core capabilities respectively. The overall PassMark result stands at 28,616, with a single-threaded PassMark score of 3,750. GPU performance is captured by a PassMark G3D result of 17,710, providing a reference point for graphics workload capability.
The laptop's port selection includes one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C port, two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports, and one USB 2.0 port, while USB 4, Thunderbolt 3, Thunderbolt 4, DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, and VGA outputs are absent. Video output is handled by a single HDMI 2.1 port, and there is no external memory card slot. Wired networking is covered by one RJ45 port, and wireless connectivity spans Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax), Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac), and Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n), complemented by Bluetooth 5.2. AirPlay is also supported.
The laptop is equipped with a 60 Wh battery and supports sleep-and-charge functionality, allowing connected devices to be charged even when the system is powered off or in sleep mode. It does not include a MagSafe power adapter.
Audio output is handled by stereo speakers with a 3.5 mm headset jack, while two built-in microphones cover voice capture; Dolby Atmos and S/PDIF output are not included. The GPU supports both ray tracing and DLSS, adding rendering flexibility for compatible applications. A front camera is present, but there is no fingerprint scanner, 3D facial recognition, or voice command support. The laptop does not include a stylus, optical disc drive, or any motion and location sensors such as a gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, or GPS.
The laptop CPU carries a clock multiplier of 38, a TDP of 115W, and a maximum operating temperature of 100 °C, with support for instruction sets including MMX, SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, AVX, AVX2, AES, F16C, and FMA3; the multiplier is locked and big.LITTLE technology is not used. The processor includes an NX bit, supports ECC memory, and has integrated graphics with 12 execution units alongside the discrete GPU, which is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture and features 3,072 shading units, 96 TMUs, and 48 ROPs. GPU memory runs at 2,000 MHz with an effective speed of 16,000 MHz across a 128-bit bus, yielding a maximum bandwidth of 256 GB/s, while the RAM supports speeds of up to 7,500 MHz across two memory channels. The GPU scores 6,787 in the PassMark DirectCompute test and supports OpenCL 3, OpenGL 4.6, stereoscopic 3D, multi-display output, and Double Precision Floating Point (DPFP), and does not include LHR. On the CPU side, the cache hierarchy comprises 512 KB of L1, 8 MB of L2 at 1 MB per core, and 16 MB of L3 at 2 MB per core, with the chip built from 18,900 million transistors.
