The Lenovo LOQ 15IAX9E is classified as a gaming laptop and carries a weight of 1770 g, with a footprint of 359 mm wide by 236 mm tall and a thickness of 19 mm, resulting in a total volume of roughly 1609.756 cm³. It does not use a fanless design, meaning active cooling is present. The laptop lacks a backlit keyboard and is not weather-sealed, so no splash protection is offered. It comes backed by a 2-year warranty.
The laptop features a 15.6″ IPS LCD panel with LED backlighting, delivering a resolution of 1920 x 1080 px at a pixel density of 141 ppi. It runs at a 144Hz refresh rate, which supports smoother motion in fast-paced content, and reaches a typical brightness of 300 nits. The display includes an anti-reflection coating but does not support touch input. Up to 4 displays can be connected simultaneously, and the panel has a 4-display output capacity when factoring in external connections.
The system is equipped with 16GB of DDR5 RAM running at 4800 MHz, expandable up to 32GB across two memory slots, paired with a 1024GB NVMe SSD for flash-based storage. The CPU operates at 4 x 2.4 GHz and 4 x 1.8 GHz with a turbo ceiling of 4.4 GHz, supports 12 threads with multithreading enabled, and is built on an 8 nm process node. On the graphics side, the GPU carries 4GB of GDDR6 VRAM, runs at a base clock of 712 MHz boosting up to 1740 MHz, and delivers 4.329 TFLOPS of floating-point performance alongside a texture rate of 67.65 GTexels/s and a pixel rate of 42.28 GPixel/s. DirectX 12 Ultimate is supported, while XeSS is not. The platform uses PCIe 4 and the system is fully 64-bit compatible.
In PassMark testing, the laptop records an overall CPU score of 18,228 and a single-thread score of 3,335, reflecting the processor's multi-core and single-core capabilities respectively. The GPU achieves a PassMark G3D score of 9,278, representing its measured graphics rendering performance under that benchmark.
For wired connectivity, the laptop provides one USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C port and two USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports, along with one RJ45 port for a wired network connection and one HDMI 2.1 output for external displays. There are no USB 3.2 Gen 2, USB 4, Thunderbolt 3, Thunderbolt 4, DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, or VGA outputs present. Wireless connectivity covers Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) with backward compatibility for Wi-Fi 5 and Wi-Fi 4, plus Bluetooth 5.2. The laptop also includes an external memory slot and supports AirPlay.
The laptop houses a 57 Wh battery and includes sleep-and-charge USB ports, allowing connected devices to be charged even when the laptop is in a low-power state. It does not come with a MagSafe power adapter.
The laptop includes stereo speakers, a 3.5 mm headset jack, and two built-in microphones for audio input and output, though Dolby Atmos and S/PDIF output are not present. A front camera is included, while biometric options such as a fingerprint scanner and 3D facial recognition are absent, and voice commands are not supported. On the graphics feature side, the system supports both ray tracing and DLSS, adding to its gaming-oriented capabilities. Motion and location sensors — including a gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, and GPS — are not included, nor is an optical disc drive, and no stylus is bundled with the device.
The CPU is a laptop-type processor fitted in an LGA 1700 socket, compatible with Z690, H670, B660, and H610 chipsets, with a clock multiplier of 24, an unlocked multiplier, Turbo Boost version 2, and a maximum operating temperature of 100 °C. It uses big.LITTLE technology, carries 12 MB of L3 cache, supports ECC memory with a maximum RAM speed of 4800 MHz, and includes integrated graphics with 16 execution units alongside the dedicated GPU. The CPU has a TDP of 75W, does not use air-water cooling, and supports instruction sets including SSE 4.2, SSE 4.1, AVX, AES, FMA3, F16C, and MMX, as well as the NX bit and Double Precision Floating Point. On the GPU side, the dedicated graphics are based on the Ampere architecture and feature 2048 shading units, 64 texture mapping units, 40 ROPs, a 128-bit memory bus, an effective memory speed of 12000 MHz, and a maximum memory bandwidth of 192 GB/s, with support for OpenCL 3, OpenGL 4.6, stereoscopic 3D, and Intel Resizable BAR. The GPU does not have LHR, and memory operates across 2 channels.
