The Lenovo LOQ 15IAX9E is a gaming laptop with a footprint of 359 mm wide by 236 mm tall and a slim 19 mm thickness, resulting in a total volume of roughly 1609.756 cm³. It weighs 1770 g, which is fairly typical for a machine in this class. The chassis does not use a fanless design and is not weather-sealed or splashproof, and the keyboard does not feature backlighting. A 2-year warranty is included with the device.
The laptop features a 15.6″ LCD IPS panel with LED backlighting, delivering a 1920 x 1080 resolution at a pixel density of 141 ppi. It runs at a 144Hz refresh rate, which benefits fast-paced content, and reaches a typical brightness of 300 nits. An anti-reflection coating is applied to the screen surface, though the display does not support touch input. The system is capable of driving up to 4 displays simultaneously.
The processor runs eight cores across 12 threads with a base configuration of 4 x 2.4 GHz and 4 x 1.8 GHz, boosting up to 4.4 GHz, and is built on an 8 nm process node with multithreading enabled and full 64-bit support. System memory stands at 16GB of DDR5 RAM at 4800 MHz across 2 slots, expandable to a maximum of 32GB. Storage is handled by a 1024GB NVMe SSD using PCIe 4.0 flash storage. On the graphics side, the GPU carries 4GB of GDDR6 VRAM, a base clock of 735 MHz that boosts to 1245 MHz, and delivers 5.1 TFLOPS of floating-point performance alongside a texture rate of 79.68 GTexels/s and a pixel rate of 39.84 GPixel/s, with support for DirectX 12 Ultimate but no XeSS support.
In CPU benchmark testing, the system achieves a PassMark multi-core score of 18228, reflecting the combined processing throughput across all available cores and threads. The single-core PassMark result of 3335 indicates the per-core processing capability of the processor.
The laptop's port selection includes one USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C port and two USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports, with no USB 3.2 Gen 2, USB 4, Thunderbolt 3, or Thunderbolt 4 ports present. Video output is handled by a single HDMI 2.1 port, while DisplayPort and mini DisplayPort outputs are absent, as is a VGA connector. Wired networking is covered by one RJ45 port, and wireless connectivity spans Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) along with backward-compatible Wi-Fi 5 and Wi-Fi 4, paired with Bluetooth 5.2. The device also features an external memory card slot and supports AirPlay.
The laptop is equipped with a 57 Wh 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.
Audio is handled by stereo speakers and a 3.5 mm headset jack, though Dolby Atmos and S/PDIF output are not supported. The laptop includes a front-facing camera and two microphones, but lacks a fingerprint scanner, 3D facial recognition, and voice command functionality. On the graphics feature side, the GPU supports both ray tracing and DLSS, catering to more demanding rendering workloads. No stylus is included, and the device does not feature motion or location sensors such as a gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, or GPS, nor does it have an optical disc drive.
The CPU is a laptop-type processor using the LGA 1700 socket with a clock multiplier of 24, Turbo Boost version 2, a maximum operating temperature of 100 °C, and a TDP of 30W. It employs big.LITTLE technology, has an unlocked multiplier, supports the NX bit, and includes 12 MB of L3 cache, with compatible chipsets covering Z690, H670, B660, and H610. Supported instruction sets include SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, AVX, AES, FMA3, F16C, and MMX, and maximum RAM speed tops out at 4800 MHz across 2 memory channels. Integrated graphics are present in the form of the UHD Graphics 710 with 16 execution units. The discrete GPU is built on the Ampere architecture with 2048 shading units, 64 texture mapping units, 32 ROPs, a 64-bit memory bus, a GPU memory speed of 1750 MHz, an effective memory speed of 14000 MHz, and a maximum memory bandwidth of 112 GB/s, totaling 8700 million transistors. It supports OpenCL 3, OpenGL 4.6, stereoscopic 3D, multi-display output, Double Precision Floating Point, and ECC memory, while LHR is not present.
