The Lenovo LOQ 15IAX9 is a gaming laptop with a footprint of 359 × 258 mm and a 21 mm thickness, keeping its overall volume to 1945.062 cm³. It weighs 2380 g and features a backlit keyboard for use in low-light environments. The chassis is not fanless, meaning it relies on active cooling, and it does not carry a weather-sealed or splashproof rating. Lenovo backs the unit with a 2-year warranty.
The laptop features a 15.6″ IPS panel using LCD, LED-backlit technology, rendering content at 1920 x 1080 px for a pixel density of 141 ppi. Typical brightness is rated at 300 nits, and the screen includes an anti-reflection coating to reduce glare. At 144Hz, the refresh rate is well suited to fast-moving content, though the display does not support touch input. The system can drive up to four connected displays simultaneously.
The processor runs eight cores across 12 threads, with four cores clocked at 2.4 GHz and four efficiency cores at 1.8 GHz, reaching a turbo frequency of 4.4 GHz, and the chip supports 64-bit operation and multithreading. System memory stands at 24GB of DDR5 RAM at 4800 MHz across two slots, expandable to a maximum of 32GB. Storage is handled by a 1024GB NVMe SSD using flash technology over a PCIe 4 interface. On the graphics side, the GPU operates at a base clock of 1605 MHz with a boost up to 2370 MHz, backed by 6GB of GDDR6 VRAM, and delivers 12.13 TFLOPS of floating-point performance, a texture rate of 204.8 GTexels/s, and a pixel rate of 113.76 GPixel/s; it supports DirectX 12 Ultimate but does not include XeSS. The GPU is manufactured on a 4 nm process node.
In PassMark testing, the system achieves an overall score of 18,228, reflecting the combined throughput of its CPU and GPU. The single-core PassMark result stands at 3,335, giving a sense of per-thread processing capability. The GPU-specific PassMark G3D score reaches 17,148, measuring the graphics subsystem's rendering performance.
The laptop's port selection includes one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C port and three USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports, while there are no Thunderbolt 3 or 4 ports, no USB 4 ports, and no additional USB-C Gen 1 or USB-A Gen 2 connections. Video output is handled by a single HDMI 2.1 port; DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, and VGA outputs are absent. Wired networking is covered by one RJ45 port, and there is no external memory card slot. For wireless connectivity, the unit supports Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) alongside Wi-Fi 5 and Wi-Fi 4, pairs over Bluetooth 5.2, and is AirPlay compatible.
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 powered off or in sleep mode. It does not use a MagSafe power adapter.
Audio is handled by stereo speakers and a 3.5 mm headset jack, with two built-in microphones for voice capture; Dolby Atmos and S/PDIF output are not included. A front camera is present, though the laptop lacks a fingerprint scanner, 3D facial recognition, and voice command support. On the graphics feature side, the system supports both ray tracing and DLSS, adding to its gaming-oriented credentials. Motion and location sensors — including a gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, and GPS — are absent, and no stylus is included. There is also no optical disc drive.
The CPU is a laptop-type processor seated in an LGA 1700 socket, compatible with Z690, H670, B660, and H610 chipsets, and carries a 115W TDP with a maximum operating temperature of 100 °C. It uses big.LITTLE technology, has an unlocked multiplier with a clock multiplier of 24, supports Turbo Boost version 2, and includes 12 MB of L3 cache along with NX bit support. The chip integrates UHD Graphics 710 with 16 execution units and supports instruction sets including SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, AVX, AES, FMA3, F16C, and MMX. The discrete GPU is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture and contains 18,900 million transistors; it features 2,560 shading units, 80 TMUs, and 48 ROPs, with GPU memory running at 2000 MHz and an effective speed of 16,000 MHz over a 96-bit bus, delivering a maximum bandwidth of 192 GB/s. The GPU does not use LHR, supports multi-display output and stereoscopic 3D, and is compatible with OpenCL 3 and OpenGL 4.6. Additional platform features include Intel Resizable BAR, ECC memory support across two memory channels with a maximum RAM speed of 4800 MHz, and Double Precision Floating Point capability.
