The Lenovo LOQ 15ARP9 is a gaming laptop with a physical footprint of 359mm wide, 258mm deep, and 21mm thin, giving it a relatively compact profile for its category. It weighs 2380g and occupies a total volume of 1945.062 cm³. The chassis relies on active cooling rather than a fanless design and is not weather-sealed, so it is not splash-resistant. On the usability side, it includes a backlit keyboard for low-light use and comes with a one-year warranty.
The laptop features a 15.6-inch IPS LCD panel with LED backlighting, delivering a 1920x1080 resolution at a pixel density of 141 ppi. Its 144Hz refresh rate makes it well-suited for fast-paced content, while typical brightness sits at 300 nits. The display includes an anti-reflection coating to help reduce glare, though it does not support touch input.
This laptop is powered by an eight-core, 64-bit CPU running at 3.1GHz base and boosting up to 4.5GHz, with 16 threads and multithreading support, built on a 5nm semiconductor process. It is paired with 24GB of DDR5 RAM at 4800MHz across two memory slots, expandable up to 32GB, alongside a 1TB NVMe SSD using PCIe 4.0 for flash-based storage. The GPU runs at a base clock of 1545MHz, reaching up to 2370MHz in turbo, and is equipped with 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM, delivering 14.56 TFLOPS of floating-point performance, a texture rate of 227.52 GTexels/s, and a pixel rate of 113.76 GPixel/s, with DirectX 12 Ultimate support; XeSS (XMX) is not supported.
In PassMark testing, this laptop achieves an overall CPU score of 23,380 and a single-thread score of 3,168, reflecting the processor's multi-core and per-core output respectively. On the graphics side, it records a PassMark G3D score of 17,710, representing the GPU's measured rendering performance.
The laptop offers a practical set of ports, including one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C port, three USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports, and a single HDMI 2.1 output for external display connectivity; there are no Thunderbolt, DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, or VGA outputs. Wired networking is handled by one RJ45 port, while wireless connectivity covers Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) alongside backward-compatible Wi-Fi 5 and Wi-Fi 4 standards, complemented by Bluetooth 5.2. AirPlay is supported, but there is no external memory card slot on this model.
The laptop is equipped with a 60Wh battery and includes sleep-and-charge USB ports, allowing connected devices to be charged even when the laptop is powered off or in sleep mode. It does not use a MagSafe power adapter.
On the audio and multimedia side, the laptop includes stereo speakers, a 3.5mm headset jack, and two built-in microphones, though it lacks Dolby Atmos and an S/PDIF output. A front camera is present for video calls, but there is no fingerprint scanner, 3D facial recognition, or voice command support. The GPU supports both ray tracing and DLSS, adding to its graphics feature set. Sensor-wise, an accelerometer is included, while a gyroscope, compass, and GPS are absent. No stylus is bundled, and there is no optical disc drive on this model.
The GPU is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture and houses 3,072 shading units, 96 texture mapping units, and 48 render output units, with a 128-bit memory bus running at 2,000 MHz for an effective memory speed of 16,000 MHz and a maximum bandwidth of 256 GB/s; it does not include integrated graphics or LHR, but does support multi-display output, stereoscopic 3D, double precision floating point, OpenCL 3, and OpenGL 4.6, and achieves a PassMark DirectCompute score of 6,787. The CPU carries a clock multiplier of 31 and a TDP of 115W, with a maximum operating temperature of 95°C, and supports instruction sets including MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2, alongside an NX bit for security; it does not use big.LITTLE technology and has a locked multiplier. Cache configuration spans 512KB of L1, 4MB of L2 at 0.5MB per core, and 16MB of L3 at 2MB per core, with two memory channels supporting a maximum RAM speed of 4,800 MHz and ECC memory compatibility. In overclocked PassMark testing, the system recorded a score of 25,238, and the transistor count stands at 18,900 million.
