The Lenovo LOQ 15IAX9 is classified as a gaming laptop with a physical footprint of 359 mm wide, 258 mm deep, and 21 mm thick, giving it a total volume of 1,945.06 cm³. It weighs 2,380 g and relies on an active cooling system rather than a fanless design. The chassis is not weather-sealed, but it does include a backlit keyboard for low-light use. Lenovo covers the unit with a 2-year warranty.
The laptop features a 15.6″ IPS panel with LED backlighting, running at a resolution of 1920 x 1080 px and a pixel density of 141 ppi. Its 144Hz refresh rate makes it well-suited for fast-paced content, while typical brightness is rated at 300 nits. An anti-reflection coating is applied to the screen surface, though the display does not support touch input. The system can drive up to 4 displays simultaneously, covering a range of multi-monitor setups.
The system is equipped with 24GB of DDR5 RAM running at 4800 MHz across two memory slots, with a maximum supported capacity of 32GB. The CPU operates at 4 x 2.4 GHz and 4 x 1.8 GHz with a turbo ceiling of 4.4 GHz, spreads its workload across 12 threads with multithreading enabled, and is built on a 5 nm process node. Storage is handled by a 1024GB NVMe SSD connected via PCIe 4.0, using flash memory for fast read and write access. On the graphics side, the GPU runs at a base clock of 1545 MHz boosting up to 2370 MHz, backed by 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM, 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 processing, while XeSS (XMX) is not available on this configuration.
In standardized PassMark testing, the laptop records an overall CPU score of 18,228 and a single-thread score of 3,335, reflecting the processor's per-core efficiency alongside its multi-threaded throughput. The GPU achieves a PassMark G3D score of 17,710, providing a measurable indication of its graphics rendering capability.
Wired connectivity includes one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C port, three USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports, one HDMI 2.1 output, and one RJ45 Ethernet port; there are no Thunderbolt 3 or 4 ports, no DisplayPort or mini DisplayPort outputs, and no VGA connector. An external memory slot is also absent. On the wireless side, the laptop supports Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) along with Wi-Fi 5 and Wi-Fi 4, pairs with devices over Bluetooth 5.2, and is compatible with AirPlay.
The laptop houses a 60 Wh battery and includes sleep-and-charge USB ports, allowing connected devices to be charged even when the system is powered off or in sleep mode. It does not use a MagSafe power adapter.
For audio, the laptop includes stereo speakers, a 3.5 mm headset jack, and two microphones, though it does not support Dolby Atmos or 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. On the graphics feature side, the system supports both ray tracing and DLSS, while motion and location sensors — including a gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, and GPS — are all absent. No stylus is included, and there is no optical disc drive.
The CPU sits in an LGA 1700 socket, carries a 115W TDP, uses big.LITTLE technology, has an unlocked multiplier set at 24, supports Turbo Boost version 2, and reaches a maximum operating temperature of 100 °C; it also includes 12 MB of L3 cache, operates across 2 memory channels with a maximum RAM speed of 4800 MHz, and is compatible with Z690, H670, B660, and H610 chipsets. Supported instruction sets cover SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, AVX, AES, FMA3, F16C, and MMX, and the processor includes an NX bit as well as integrated graphics with 16 execution units. The discrete GPU is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture, features 3,072 shading units, 96 texture mapping units, 48 ROPs, and runs its memory at 2000 MHz over a 128-bit bus, delivering an effective memory speed of 16,000 MHz and a maximum bandwidth of 256 GB/s; it supports multi-display output, stereoscopic 3D, Double Precision Floating Point, and scores 6,787 in PassMark DirectCompute, while LHR is not present. The GPU also contains 18,900 million transistors and supports OpenCL 3 and OpenGL 4.6, and the system as a whole is compatible with ECC memory.
