Lenovo LOQ review

The 2023 LOQ: strong receipts, modest placings

Lenovo's 2023 LOQ pairs an eight-core i5-13420H with a GeForce RTX 3050 6GB and 64GB of memory, asking $880 — eighteen percent above the gaming-class median of $749.56. The honest tension of this machine is that its measured placings run about twenty-one percent below the class median on every axis — composite 59 against 75, CPU 51.24 against 65.01, GPU 61.92 against 78.49 — while its flag sheet carries some of the best receipts in its price band.

The receipts

Grand Theft Auto V clears its recommended bar with a measured 140 frames per second, and Far Cry 5 clears recommended at a measured 68. That is not token gaming — those are two demanding open-world titles at settings above minimum on a machine the placings call budget-segment. The 3050 6GB and the 64GB behind it are doing real work; the below-median placings measure the machine against a gaming class stacked with forty-series cards, not against the games themselves.

The honest ceiling

The composite score of 59 — twenty-one percent under the class median — is the machine's measured weak axis, and it is consistent across CPU and GPU alike. This is an entry seat in a premium aisle: it clears today's recommended bars but carries no headroom for the next generation of titles at the same settings. Buyers wanting future margin should step up a tier; buyers wanting verified performance now get it here.

Price trajectory

From an $1,800 anchor the machine has settled to $880 — forty-nine percent retained — decaying at 16.26% per year with a two-year projection of $617. As a 2023 platform it still sits in the steeper part of its curve; the depreciation cost of ownership over the next two years is roughly a third of today's ticket.

Against the alternatives

HP's Victus 16-r0002ne at $966 and Lenovo's LOQ 15IRH8 at $971 sit above; the Victus 15-fa2xxx at $754 and its Victus sibling at $749 below. The LOQ's position in that bracket is defensible: measured GTA and Far Cry recommended greens with 64GB of memory, against rivals whose placings at this band are similar but whose receipts are thinner.

Bottom line

Fairly priced for the class — an entry-tier 2023 gaming seat whose measured receipts outperform its below-median placings. Buy it for verified present-day performance at recommended settings; do not buy it expecting the placing numbers to say more than the flags prove.