The Lenovo LOQ 15IAX9E is classified as a gaming laptop with a compact 19 mm thickness and a footprint of 359 × 236 mm, occupying a total volume of 1609.756 cm³. It weighs 1770 g, keeping it reasonably portable for its category. The chassis does not use a fanless design, nor is it weather-sealed or splashproof. The keyboard lacks backlighting, and the unit comes with a one-year warranty.
The laptop features a 15.6″ IPS panel with LED backlighting, delivering a 1920 × 1080 resolution at a pixel density of 141 ppi. Typical brightness is rated at 300 nits, and the screen includes an anti-reflection coating to help reduce glare. At 144Hz, the refresh rate is well-suited for gaming use, and the display system supports up to four simultaneous outputs. The screen does not support touch input.
The system is equipped with 16GB of DDR5 RAM running at 4800 MHz across two memory slots, with a maximum supported capacity of 32GB. The CPU operates at 4 × 2.4 GHz and 4 × 1.8 GHz with a turbo frequency of 4.4GHz, offering 12 threads and multithreading support, and is built on an 8 nm process node with 64-bit compatibility. Storage is handled by a 1024GB NVMe SSD using flash memory over a PCIe 4.0 interface. On the graphics side, the GPU runs at a base clock of 1065 MHz with a boost up to 1343 MHz, backed by 4GB of GDDR6 VRAM, delivering 4.813 TFLOPS of floating-point performance, a texture rate of 75.21 GTexels/s, and a pixel rate of 42.98 GPixel/s, with support for DirectX 12 Ultimate but not XeSS.
In CPU benchmark testing, the processor achieves a PassMark multi-core score of 18,228, while the single-core result stands at 3,335, reflecting the performance characteristics of the Intel Core i5-12450HX under standardized load conditions.
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, and there is no VGA connector. Wired networking is supported via one RJ45 port, and an external memory card slot is also available. Wireless connectivity covers Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) alongside Wi-Fi 5 and Wi-Fi 4, paired with Bluetooth 5.2. The laptop additionally supports AirPlay.
The laptop is fitted with a 57 Wh battery and includes sleep-and-charge USB ports, allowing connected devices to be charged even when the system is in sleep mode. It does not use a MagSafe power adapter.
On the audio side, the laptop includes stereo speakers, a 3.5 mm headset jack, and two microphones, though it lacks Dolby Atmos and an S/PDIF output. A front camera is present for video calls. Graphics features include support for ray tracing and DLSS, enabling hardware-accelerated visual effects and upscaling. The unit does not include a fingerprint scanner, 3D facial recognition, or voice command functionality, and there is no stylus in the box. Sensor-wise, the laptop omits a gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, and GPS. An optical disc drive is also not included.
The CPU is a laptop-type processor using the LGA 1700 socket with a clock multiplier of 24, an unlocked multiplier, Turbo Boost version 2, a TDP of 45W, and a maximum operating temperature of 100 °C. It employs big.LITTLE technology, supports 12 MB of L3 cache, dual memory channels with a maximum RAM speed of 4800 MHz, and is compatible with Z690, H670, B660, and H610 chipsets. Supported instruction sets include SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, AVX, AES, FMA3, F16C, and MMX, and the processor includes an NX bit and integrated graphics in the form of the UHD Graphics 710 with 16 execution units. The discrete GPU is based on the Ampere architecture and features 1792 shading units, 56 TMUs, 32 ROPs, a 128-bit memory bus, an effective memory speed of 12,000 MHz, a GPU memory speed of 1500 MHz, and a maximum memory bandwidth of 192 GB/s, along with 12,000 million transistors, Double Precision Floating Point support, and no LHR. Additional GPU capabilities include Intel Resizable BAR, multi-display support, stereoscopic 3D, OpenCL 3.0, OpenGL 4.6, and ECC memory support.
