The Lenovo LOQ 15IRX9 is a gaming laptop with a footprint of 359 x 258 mm and a thickness of 21 mm, giving it a volume of roughly 1,945 cm³ while keeping the profile relatively slim for its category. It weighs 2,380 grams, which is a typical figure for a machine of this type. The chassis is not fanless, meaning it uses active cooling, and it is not weather-sealed against splashes or moisture. On the usability side, it includes a backlit keyboard for low-light environments. The laptop comes with a one-year warranty.
The laptop features a 15.6-inch IPS panel with LED backlighting, delivering a 2560 x 1440 pixel resolution at a pixel density of 188 ppi for a reasonably sharp image. The display runs at a 165Hz refresh rate, which benefits fast-paced content, and reaches a typical brightness of 350 nits. An anti-reflection coating is present to reduce glare, though the screen does not support touch input. The system can drive up to four displays simultaneously.
The processor runs across 20 cores with 28 threads, operating at base clock speeds of 8 x 2.1 GHz and 12 x 1.5 GHz, with a turbo frequency reaching up to 5.5GHz, and is built on a 5nm semiconductor process with multithreading support. System memory consists of 32GB of DDR5 RAM running at 5600 MHz across two slots, which also represents the maximum supported capacity. Storage is handled by a 1024GB NVMe SSD using flash storage and connected via PCIe 4.0. On the graphics side, the GPU carries 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM, a base clock of 1545 MHz boosting to 2370 MHz, 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 operation, but does not include XeSS (XMX) support.
In CPU benchmarking, the system scores 2,504 in Geekbench 6 single-core and 13,529 in the Geekbench 6 multi-core test, reflecting the processor's threaded throughput. The overall PassMark result sits at 37,155, with a single-core PassMark score of 3,987. Graphics performance is represented by a PassMark G3D score of 17,710, which captures the GPU's rendering capability under that benchmark's workload.
The laptop's USB layout includes one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C port and three USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports; there are no Thunderbolt 3 or 4 ports, no USB 4 ports, and no USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A or Gen 1 Type-C ports. Video output is handled by a single HDMI 2.1 port, while DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, and VGA outputs are absent. Wired networking is covered by one RJ45 port, and wireless connectivity includes Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) with backwards compatibility for Wi-Fi 5 and Wi-Fi 4, alongside Bluetooth 5.2. AirPlay is supported, but there is no external memory card slot.
The laptop is equipped with a 60Wh 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 3.5mm headset jack, and two microphones, though it does not support Dolby Atmos and has no S/PDIF output. A front camera is present, 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, which are relevant for compatible gaming workloads. No stylus is included, and the device lacks motion and location sensors such as a gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, and GPS. There is also no optical disc drive.
The CPU is a laptop-type processor with a clock multiplier of 21, a 115W TDP, a maximum operating temperature of 100°C, and a 33MB L3 cache; it employs big.LITTLE technology, supports multithreading, and carries the NX bit for hardware-level security, though its multiplier is not unlocked. Supported instruction sets include MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2. The system also includes integrated graphics in the form of the UHD Graphics 770, which features 32 execution units. The discrete GPU is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture and counts 3,072 shading units, 96 texture mapping units, and 48 render output units, with GPU memory running at 2,000 MHz and an effective speed of 16,000 MHz across a 128-bit bus, yielding a maximum memory bandwidth of 256 GB/s. It supports OpenCL 3, OpenGL 4.6, stereoscopic 3D, multi-display output, Double Precision Floating Point, and ECC memory, while LHR is not present. The processor contains 18,900 million transistors, operates across 2 memory channels with a maximum RAM speed of 5,600 MHz, and the system achieves a PassMark DirectCompute score of 6,787 and an overclocked PassMark result of 39,466.
