The Lenovo LOQ 15IRX9 is a gaming laptop with a footprint of 359 x 258 mm and a thickness of just 21 mm, giving it a reasonably compact profile for its class. It weighs 2,380 g and has a total volume of 1,945.062 cm³, making it a solid but portable machine. The design includes a backlit keyboard for low-light use and relies on an active cooling system rather than a fanless setup. It does not feature weather sealing, so it is not splashproof. The laptop comes backed by a 2-year warranty.
The laptop features a 15.6″ IPS LCD panel with LED backlighting, delivering a 1920 x 1080 resolution at a pixel density of 141 ppi. With a 144Hz refresh rate, the display is well-suited for fast-paced content, and typical brightness is rated at 300 nits. An anti-reflection coating helps reduce glare in varied lighting conditions, though the screen does not support touch input. The system is capable of driving up to four displays simultaneously.
The processor runs across 14 cores with 20 threads, clocked at 6 x 2.6 GHz and 8 x 1.9 GHz with a turbo frequency reaching 4.9 GHz, and is built on a 5 nm semiconductor process with full 64-bit and multithreading support. System memory stands at 32GB of DDR5 RAM running at 4800 MHz across 2 slots, which also represents the maximum supported capacity. Storage is handled by a 1024GB NVMe SSD using flash technology over a PCIe 4.0 interface. On the graphics side, the GPU carries 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM, a base clock of 1545 MHz boosting up 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 but does not include XeSS (XMX) acceleration.
In CPU benchmarks, the laptop scores 2,524 in Geekbench 6 single-core and 14,077 in Geekbench 6 multi-core, reflecting the processor's multi-threaded capability. The overall PassMark result comes in at 30,674, with a single-core PassMark score of 3,767. GPU performance is represented by a PassMark G3D result of 17,710, indicating solid graphics compute throughput.
The laptop's wired port selection includes three USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports, one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C port, one HDMI 2.1 output, and a single RJ45 Ethernet jack, while DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, and VGA outputs are absent. Thunderbolt 3 and 4 are not supported, and there is no external memory card slot. For wireless connectivity, the machine supports Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) along with Wi-Fi 5 and Wi-Fi 4, paired with Bluetooth 5.2. AirPlay is also supported.
The laptop is equipped with a 60 Wh battery and supports sleep-and-charge via its 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 3.5 mm headset jack, and dual microphones, though it lacks Dolby Atmos and an S/PDIF output. A front-facing camera is present, while biometric options such as a fingerprint scanner and 3D facial recognition are not included, and voice commands are not supported. On the graphics side, the system supports both ray tracing and DLSS, expanding its rendering capabilities for compatible applications. A stylus is not included, and the laptop does not feature an optical disc drive, GPS, gyroscope, accelerometer, or compass.
The CPU operates with a clock multiplier of 26, an unlocked multiplier, a maximum temperature rating of 100 °C, a TDP of 115W, and a 24 MB L3 cache, with big.LITTLE technology distributing workloads across core types. It supports the NX bit, Double Precision Floating Point, and instruction sets including SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, AVX, AES, FMA3, F16C, and MMX, while also featuring integrated graphics with 16 execution units. The discrete GPU is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture and contains 18,900 million transistors, 3,072 shading units, 96 texture mapping units, and 48 ROPs, with GPU memory running at 2,000 MHz and an effective speed of 16,000 MHz delivering up to 256 GB/s of bandwidth across a 128-bit bus. The system supports OpenCL 3, OpenGL 4.6, stereoscopic 3D, multi-display output, and ECC memory, and achieves a PassMark DirectCompute score of 6,787. Memory runs across 2 channels at up to 4,800 MHz, and LHR is not present.
