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

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.

The nubia Red Magic Nova in Midnight Black

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.

The keyboard and pen accessory