Nvidia graphics card and mini-PC maker Zotac is now accepting pre-orders for its first gaming handheld, the Zone which will reportedly retail for $799 in selected regions and online retailers. It's equipped with the AMD Ryzen 7 8840U (Hawk Point) APU and Radeon 780M graphics based on the Zen 4 and RDNA 3 architecture. Zotac US tells Tom's Hardware that those pre-orders won't be in the North American market.
Some of the features of the Zotac Gaming Zone are the use of hall effect sensors for its trigger and analog stick over conventional ones to prevent drifting. It also has radial dials on both analog sticks and dual trackpads. It has Windows 11 Home pre-installed, which puts itself directly competing with Asus ROG Ally X and some of the best PC gaming handhelds due to some of its components, including the APU with the same architecture with eight-core, 16-threads clocked up to 5.1 GHz and its on-chip graphic with 12 compute units clocked at 2.7 GHz.
