The Lenovo LOQ 15IAX9 is classified as a gaming laptop and has a physical footprint of 359mm wide by 258mm tall, with a thickness of just 21mm and a total volume of approximately 1945 cm³. It weighs 2380g, which is fairly typical for a machine in this category. The chassis is not fanless, meaning it relies on active cooling, and it does not carry a weather-sealed or splashproof rating. On the plus side, it includes a backlit keyboard for low-light use and comes backed by a 2-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. It runs at a 144Hz refresh rate, which is well-suited for gaming and fast-moving content, and reaches a typical brightness of 300 nits. The display does not include a touchscreen or an anti-reflection coating, but the system supports up to four external displays simultaneously, offering meaningful flexibility for multi-monitor setups.
The system is powered by an 8-core CPU with 12 threads, running at speeds of 4 x 2.4GHz and 4 x 1.8GHz with a turbo clock of 4.4GHz, and supports multithreading along with full 64-bit operation. It comes equipped with 24GB of DDR5 RAM at 4800MHz across two memory slots, expandable up to 32GB, paired with a 1TB NVMe SSD for fast flash-based storage. On the graphics side, the GPU operates at a base clock of 712MHz, boosting up to 1740MHz, and carries 4GB of GDDR6 VRAM delivering 4.329 TFLOPS of floating-point performance, a texture rate of 67.65 GTexels/s, and a pixel rate of 42.28 GPixel/s, with support for DirectX 12 Ultimate and PCIe 4.0; XeSS is not supported.
In PassMark testing, the laptop achieves an overall CPU score of 18,228 and a single-threaded score of 3,335, reflecting the general processing capability of the i5-12450HX. The GPU registers a PassMark G3D score of 9,278, which gives a concrete indication of the RTX 3050's graphics rendering performance under standardized conditions.
For wired connectivity, the laptop provides three USB-A 3.2 Gen 1 ports, one USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 port, one RJ45 Ethernet port, and a single HDMI 2.1 output; there are no Thunderbolt 3 or 4 ports, no DisplayPort or mini DisplayPort outputs, no USB 4 ports, and no VGA connector. 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, and AirPlay is also supported. The laptop does not include an external memory card slot.
The laptop is fitted with a 60Wh battery and supports sleep-and-charge on its 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 side, the laptop includes stereo speakers, a 3.5mm headset jack, and two built-in microphones, though it does not feature Dolby Atmos or an S/PDIF output. A front-facing camera is present, but there is no fingerprint scanner, 3D facial recognition, or voice command support. For gaming, the GPU supports both ray tracing and DLSS, adding to its credentials as a gaming-oriented machine. The laptop does not include a stylus, optical disc drive, or any motion or location sensors such as a gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, or GPS.
The CPU is a laptop-class processor using an LGA 1700 socket with a clock multiplier of 24, Turbo Boost version 2, an unlocked multiplier, a 75W TDP, and a maximum operating temperature of 100°C; it employs big.LITTLE technology, carries 12MB of L3 cache, and supports instruction sets including SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, AVX, AES, FMA3, F16C, and MMX, along with NX bit, ECC memory, Double Precision Floating Point, and up to 4800MHz RAM across two memory channels, with compatible chipsets covering Z690, H670, B660, and H610. The integrated UHD Graphics 710 features 16 execution units and handles stereoscopic 3D output, while the discrete GPU is built on the Ampere architecture and does not carry LHR restrictions; it offers 2048 shading units, 64 texture mapping units, 40 ROPs, a 128-bit memory bus, a GPU memory speed of 1500MHz, an effective memory speed of 12000MHz, and a maximum memory bandwidth of 192 GB/s. Additional GPU-level support includes OpenCL 3, OpenGL 4.6, Intel Resizable BAR, and the system does not use air-water cooling.
