Lenovo is refreshing its budget gaming lineup with the new LOQ 15AHP11, a gaming laptop that mixes a more playful design with newer AMD and NVIDIA hardware. The company is clearly targeting buyers who want solid 1080p gaming performance without stepping into premium Legion pricing territory.
One of the first things that stands out is the design. This gaming laptop comes in a whirlwind green finish paired with black bezels and keyboard accents, giving it a very different look compared to the usual dark-grey gaming laptops on the market. Lenovo is even offering a matching wireless mouse in some regions to complete the setup.
Under the hood, the LOQ 15AHP11 uses AMD’s Ryzen 7 250 processor, an 8-core, 16-thread Zen 4 chip that boosts up to 5.1GHz. It’s essentially a refreshed Hawk Point platform, which also means users get capable Radeon 780M integrated graphics alongside decent multi-core performance for gaming, editing, and general workloads.
Graphics options include NVIDIA’s new GeForce RTX 5050, RTX 5060, and RTX 5070 Laptop GPUs, each paired with 8GB of GDDR7 memory and power limits around 115W. These newer Blackwell GPUs bring support for DLSS 4, improved ray tracing performance, and updated AI features compared to the previous generation.
The laptop also checks most of the boxes gamers would expect in this segment. There’s up to 32GB DDR5-5600 memory, dual M.2 SSD slots for storage expansion, and a 15.3-inch IPS display with a 1920×1200 resolution, 165Hz refresh rate, and full sRGB color coverage. Brightness tops out at 300 nits, which should still be fine for indoor gaming and everyday use.
Lenovo has included a decent selection of ports too, including USB4, HDMI 2.1, Wi-Fi 6, and Bluetooth 5.3. The machine weighs around 2.1kg, so while it’s not exactly ultrabook territory, it still remains fairly portable for a gaming laptop in this category.
Pricing and availability:
Pricing starts at around £1,600 in the UK and roughly $1,645 in the US depending on configuration. That places it in an increasingly competitive part of the gaming laptop market, especially as more brands begin rolling out RTX 50-series machines. It’s widely available across Europe (including Germany and Switzerland), the UK, Canada, and Australia.
Overall, the LOQ 15AHP11 feels like Lenovo trying to make its entry-level gaming lineup a little more modern and less boring.
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