The Lenovo LOQ 15IAX9E is a gaming laptop with a compact build measuring 359 x 236 x 19mm and a volume of 1609.756 cm³, keeping its footprint relatively slim for its category. It weighs 1770g and does not use a fanless design, meaning it relies on active cooling. The laptop includes a backlit keyboard for use in low-light conditions, though it is not weather-sealed or splashproof. It comes with a 1-year warranty and is classified as a gaming-type laptop.
The laptop features a 15.6″ IPS LCD display with LED backlighting, delivering a 1920 x 1080 resolution at a pixel density of 141 ppi. It has a 144Hz refresh rate, which benefits fast-paced content, and a typical brightness of 300 nits alongside an anti-reflection coating to reduce glare. The screen does not support touch input, and the system can drive up to 4 displays simultaneously.
The system is equipped with 16GB of DDR5 RAM running at 4800MHz, expandable up to 32GB via a single memory slot, paired with a 512GB NVMe SSD for flash-based storage. The CPU operates across 20 threads with clock speeds of 6 cores at 2GHz and 8 cores at 1.5GHz, reaching a turbo clock speed of 4.7GHz, and supports 64-bit processing along with multithreading; it is built on an 8nm semiconductor process and connects via PCIe 4.0. On the graphics side, the GPU carries 4GB of GDDR6 VRAM with a base clock of 1065MHz and a boost of 1343MHz, 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 no XeSS support.
In benchmark testing, the processor scores 10785 in Geekbench 6 multi-core and 2162 in the single-core test, reflecting its multi-threaded capabilities alongside its per-core output. The PassMark results follow a similar pattern, with an overall score of 21884 and a single-thread score of 3526.
The laptop's wired port selection includes one USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C port, two USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports, one RJ45 ethernet port, and one HDMI 2.1 output, while there are no USB 3.2 Gen 2, USB 4, Thunderbolt, DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, or VGA connections available. An external memory slot is also present. For wireless connectivity, it supports Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) along with Wi-Fi 5 and Wi-Fi 4, Bluetooth 5.2, and AirPlay.
The laptop houses a 57 Wh battery and supports sleep-and-charge functionality through its USB ports, allowing connected devices to charge even when the laptop is in sleep mode. It does not include a MagSafe power adapter.
The laptop includes stereo speakers, a 3.5mm headset jack, a front camera, and two built-in microphones, though it does not feature Dolby Atmos, an S/PDIF output, or an optical disc drive. On the graphics side, it supports ray tracing and DLSS, both relevant to gaming workloads. Biometric and motion features are absent — there is no fingerprint scanner, 3D facial recognition, gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, or GPS — and voice commands and stylus input are likewise not supported.
The CPU carries a clock multiplier of 20, a 45W TDP, a maximum operating temperature of 100°C, and a 24MB L3 cache, with support for big.LITTLE technology, an unlocked multiplier, Turbo Boost version 2, NX bit, and dual memory channels with a maximum RAM speed of 4800MHz; it is based on the LGA 1700 socket and is compatible with Z690, H670, B660, and H610 chipsets, supporting instruction sets including SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, AVX, AES, FMA3, F16C, and MMX. The integrated UHD Graphics 770 features 32 execution units, while the discrete GPU is built on the Ampere architecture with 1792 shading units, 56 texture mapping units, 32 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; it supports multi-display output, stereoscopic 3D, Double Precision Floating Point, and does not include LHR. Additional platform-level features include Intel Resizable BAR, ECC memory support, OpenCL 3, OpenGL 4.6, 12000 million transistors, and a transistor count reflecting its Ampere lineage.
