Lenovo releases new 15-inch gaming laptop with 165 Hz display, 32 GB RAM and Intel processors
Lenovo has released a new 15-inch gaming laptop, having already introduced the LOQ 15 15AHP11 earlier this year. Incidentally, we recently put this AMD Hawk Point-powered laptop through its paces in its eye-catching Surge Gren finish.
Now, the company has released the LOQ Essential 15IRH11. For reference, the 15IRH11 should not be confused with the similar-sounding LOQ Essential 15IRX11 (curr. $1,399 on Amazon). While the latter relies on Raptor Lake HX processors, the former switches to Intel's recent Raptor Lake-H Refresh architecture.
Specifically, Lenovo offers the LOQ Essential 15IRH11 with the Core 5 205H or Core 7 230H. A pair of 45 W processors, the Core 7 230H contains 10 CPU cores and 16 threads, compared to 8 cores and 12 threads in the Core 5 230H's case. Additionally, these processors can be paired with 4 GB or 6 GB versions of Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3050 laptop GPU.
On top of that, the LOQ Essential 15IRH11 comes from the factory with 8 GB, 16 GB or 32 GB of DDR5-5200 RAM and 512 GB or 1 TB of PCIe Gen 4 (M.2 2242) storage. All SKUs contain a 60 Wh battery and support 135 W charging via a proprietary Slim Tip connection, though. Likewise, the laptop finds itself with a 15.3-inch IPS display that combines a 1,920 x 1,200-pixel resolution with 300 nits peak brightness, a 165 Hz refresh rate and 100% sRGB colour space coverage.
The LOQ Essential 15IRH11 starts at HKD 9,490 (~$1,209) with a Core 5 205H processor, a GeForce RTX 3050 (4 GB) laptop GPU, 8 GB of RAM and 512 GB of storage. By contrast, the LOQ 15 15AHP11 currently costs 19% more than its Essential-branded counterpart even after being heavily discounted. The LOQ Essential 15IRH11 reaches HKD 15,560 (~$1,983) when configured with a Core 7 230H, GeForce RTX 3050 (6GB), 32 GB of RAM and 1 TB of storage, though. Pricing and availability for other markets remain unknown for now.
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