The Lenovo LOQ 16IRH8 is a gaming laptop with a 2600 g frame that measures 359 mm wide, 277 mm deep, and 21 mm thick, resulting in a total volume of 2088.303 cm³. It features an active cooling system rather than a fanless design, and includes a backlit keyboard for low-light use. The chassis is not weather-sealed, and the laptop comes with a one-year warranty.
The laptop features a 16-inch IPS panel with a 1920 x 1200 resolution at 141 ppi, delivering a slightly taller aspect ratio than standard 1080p displays. It runs at a 144Hz refresh rate, which benefits fast-paced content, and offers a typical brightness of 350 nits alongside an anti-reflection coating to reduce glare. The screen does not support touch input, and the system can drive up to four displays simultaneously.
The system is equipped with 16GB of DDR5 RAM running at 5200 MHz across two memory slots, with a maximum supported capacity of 64GB. The CPU operates at 6 cores clocked at 2.4 GHz and 4 cores at 1.8 GHz, reaching a turbo frequency of 4.9 GHz across 16 threads, though hardware-level multithreading is not enabled. Storage is handled by a 1024GB NVMe SSD connected via PCIe 4.0, using flash-based memory for fast data access. On the graphics side, the GPU carries 6GB of GDDR6 VRAM with a base clock of 1605 MHz and a boost of 2370 MHz, delivering 12.13 TFLOPS of floating-point performance alongside a texture rate of 204.8 GTexels/s and a pixel rate of 113.76 GPixel/s. The GPU supports DirectX 12 Ultimate but does not include XeSS, and the entire platform is built on a 4 nm semiconductor process with full 64-bit support.
In PassMark testing, the laptop achieves an overall CPU score of 23,805 and a single-thread score of 3,569, reflecting the per-core throughput of the i7-13620H. The GPU registers a PassMark G3D score of 17,148, representing the graphics rendering capability of the RTX 4050 under that benchmark.
The laptop's port selection includes one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C port, two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports, and one USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A port, while Thunderbolt 3 and 4, USB 4, DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, and VGA outputs are all absent. Video output is handled by a single HDMI 2.1 port, and a wired network connection is available through one RJ45 port. Wireless connectivity covers Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) along with backward-compatible Wi-Fi 5 and Wi-Fi 4 standards, paired with Bluetooth 5.1. The laptop also supports AirPlay, though there is no external memory card slot.
The laptop is fitted with an 80 Wh battery and supports sleep-and-charge functionality, allowing connected USB devices to be charged even when the system is powered off or in sleep mode. It does not use a MagSafe power adapter.
Audio output is handled by stereo speakers with a 3.5 mm headset jack available for wired headphones or headsets, though Dolby Atmos and S/PDIF output are not supported. A single microphone is built in, and the front camera is paired with 3D facial recognition for login. On the graphics feature side, the laptop supports both ray tracing and DLSS, while motion sensors such as a gyroscope, accelerometer, and compass are absent, as are GPS, voice commands, a fingerprint scanner, a stylus, and an optical disc drive.
The CPU carries a clock multiplier of 24, a 115W TDP, and a maximum operating temperature of 100 °C, with a locked multiplier and big.LITTLE architecture managing its mix of performance and efficiency cores. It includes 9.5 MB of L2 cache and 24 MB of L3 cache, supports ECC memory across two channels at up to 5200 MHz, and is compatible with instruction sets including SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, AVX, AES, FMA3, F16C, and MMX, along with NX bit support. The integrated graphics unit features 64 execution units, while the discrete GPU is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture with 2560 shading units, 80 TMUs, 48 ROPs, and a 96-bit memory bus running at 2000 MHz for an effective speed of 16,000 MHz and a peak bandwidth of 192 GB/s. The GPU holds 18,900 million transistors, supports OpenCL 3, OpenGL 4.6, stereoscopic 3D, multi-display output, Double Precision Floating Point, and Intel Resizable BAR, and does not carry LHR restrictions.
