When you think of a tablet, you probably think of an iPad. But you may be drawing a blank when it comes to a gaming tablet. Well, Red Magic wants to change that with the Red Magic Nova – a full-fledged gaming tablet with real gaming credentials.
The Red Magic Nova made its global debut this week and comes in one color: Midnight. It comes with a USB-C cable and an 80W charger.
Before we get to the specifications, let’s first discuss the appearance. The Red Magic Nova is more subtle than the phones that come from the company. There are no noticeable color accents and the LEDs are reduced to the Red Magic logo and a small circle around the built-in fan and only when it is operational.
The chassis is stylish and understated and exudes quality.
Up front is a spacious 10.9-inch 1800x2880px IPS LCD screen. While some people may lament the lack of an OLED panel, at least this is a 144Hz unit. It’s also a nice panel with sharp images and good, if not amazing, brightness.
The Red Magic Nova runs on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Leading Edition with a 3.4GHz prime core and a GPU frequency of 1GHz – the highest clocked variants of the SoC available. The Qualcomm chip comes with 12 GB or 16 GB of RAM.
The 10,100 mAh battery is good for 10 hours of gaming or almost 19 hours of daily use.
Red Magic built a 9-layer cooling system with a 3D heat pipe, a circulation auxiliary channel, a dissipation alloy, graphene, copper foil, thermally conductive gel and a 20,000 rpm internal fan. We must say that it is barely audible during use.
There’s also the Red Magic Game Space 9, which tunes the system for performance.
The Red Magic Nova will go on sale on October 16, starting at $499/€499/£439 for the 12/256GB model and $649/€649/£559 for the 16/512GB model. We’ll share more first-hand impressions with the tablet in the coming weeks.