Red Magic Nova gaming tablet is now global, starts at $499/€499/£439

27 September 2024

The Red Magic nova gaming tablet debutted earlier this month in China and is now going global.

Red Magic claims this is the best tablet for triple-A games thanks to a combination of a potent chipset, capable display, big battery, and sophisticated passive and active cooling.

Inside the Red Magic Nova is the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Leading Edition — a higher-clocked version of the SoC with a 3.4GHz Cortex-X4 prime core and a GPU running at 1GHz. This matches the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for the Galaxy, making it the current best chipset in terms of performance in the Android realm.

But while Samsung's devices rely on passive cooling, the Red Magic Nova brings a 9-layer cooling system culminating in a 20,000 RPM turbofan. In between the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and the fan are a heat pipe, air duct, heat dissipation alloy, graphene, copper foil, thermally conductive gel, mainboard copper foil, and an all-metal aviation aluminum body. Red Magic says this elaborate system reduces the core temperature by 25°C.

A 10,100mAh battery with 80W charging support powers the tablet. Red Magic says you can expect 10 hours of gaming and nearly 19 hours of regular use.

The all-metal body of the Red Magic Nova has a CNC-carved middle frame, a 45-degree anti-slip chamfer, and an anodized back cover. The tablet weighs 520g and is 7.3mm thick.

The display is a 10.9-inch 2880x1800px IPS LCD with a 144 Hz refresh rate, and up to 840Hz of touch sampling. There's a 20 MP front-facing camera and a single 50 MP camera on the back.

You can pre-order the Red Magic Nova from October 7 through redmagic.gg and general sales will open on October 16. The Red Magic Nova starts at $499/€499/£439 for the 12/256GB model and goes up to $649/€649/£559 for the 16/512GB unit, and you'll seemingly get a choice of Midnight Black, though there is a Silver model as well. The tablet will come to North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and Latin America.

Red Magic also made a keyboard accessory that attaches magnetically to the accessory pins on the bottom of the slate, and there's a stylus available too, but prices haven't been disclosed just yet.