The Lenovo LOQ 15ARP9 is a gaming laptop with a compact form factor of 359 x 258 x 21 mm and a total volume of 1945.062 cm³, keeping its footprint relatively slim for its category. It weighs 2380 g and relies on an active cooling system, as it does not use a fanless design. The keyboard is backlit for use in low-light environments, while the chassis is not weather-sealed or splashproof. The laptop comes with a one-year warranty and does not include weather protection of any kind.
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. It has a 144Hz refresh rate, making it well-suited for fast-paced content, and a typical brightness of 300 nits. An anti-reflection coating is applied to the screen surface, while touch input is not supported. The display rounds out its specifications with no touch functionality, keeping the focus on a traditional keyboard-and-trackpad interaction model.
The system is powered by an 8-core CPU running at 3.1 GHz base and boosting up to 4.5 GHz, with 16 threads enabled through multithreading support and a 4 nm semiconductor process. It comes with 24GB of DDR5 RAM at 4800 MHz across two slots, with a maximum supported capacity of 32GB, paired with a 1024GB NVMe SSD using PCIe 4.0 for flash-based storage. On the graphics side, the GPU carries 6GB of GDDR6 VRAM, a base clock of 1605 MHz boosting to 2370 MHz, and delivers 12.13 TFLOPS of floating-point performance alongside a texture rate of 204.8 GTexels/s and a pixel rate of 113.76 GPixel/s. The GPU supports DirectX 12 Ultimate and is fully 64-bit compatible, though XeSS (XMX) is not available on this configuration.
In PassMark testing, the system achieves an overall score of 23,380, reflecting its combined CPU and system performance, while the single-thread result stands at 3,168. The GPU records a PassMark G3D score of 17,148, representing its graphics rendering capability as measured by that benchmark.
The laptop offers a practical range of wired and wireless connectivity options. On the wired side, it includes one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C port, three USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports, one RJ45 port for ethernet, and a single HDMI 2.1 output for external displays; there are no DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, or VGA outputs, and no external memory card slot. Thunderbolt 3 and 4 as well as USB 4 are not present on this model. Wireless connectivity is handled by Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) with backward compatibility for Wi-Fi 5 and Wi-Fi 4, alongside Bluetooth 5.2. AirPlay is also supported, and the laptop includes a USB Type-C port, though no USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports are available.
The laptop is equipped with a 60 Wh battery and supports sleep-and-charge functionality, allowing connected USB devices to be charged even when the system is in sleep mode. It does not use a MagSafe power adapter.
On the audio and multimedia side, the laptop includes stereo speakers, a 3.5 mm headset jack, two built-in microphones, and a front-facing camera, though Dolby Atmos and S/PDIF output are not present. For graphics, it supports both ray tracing and DLSS, expanding its rendering options for compatible applications. Biometric security features such as a fingerprint scanner and 3D facial recognition are absent, and there is no stylus included. The laptop also lacks motion and location sensors — specifically a gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, and GPS — and does not include an optical disc drive or voice command functionality.
The GPU is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture and features 2560 shading units, 80 texture mapping units, and 48 render output units, with a memory bus width of 96-bit, a GPU memory speed of 2000 MHz, and an effective memory speed of 16000 MHz delivering up to 192 GB/s of bandwidth. It supports OpenCL 3, OpenGL 4.6, stereoscopic 3D, multi-display output, Double Precision Floating Point, and Intel Resizable BAR, while LHR is not present. The CPU carries a clock multiplier of 31, a TDP of 115W, and a maximum operating temperature of 95°C, with 18900 million transistors and a cache structure comprising 512 KB L1, 4 MB L2 at 0.5 MB/core, and 16 MB L3 at 2 MB/core. It supports two memory channels with a maximum RAM speed of 4800 MHz, the NX bit for security, and instruction sets including MMX, AES, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, F16C, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2, though it does not use big.LITTLE technology, does not have an unlocked multiplier, and lacks integrated graphics. The overclocked PassMark result is recorded at 25,238.
