ZOTAC showed a prototype of the ZONE GAMING portable game console at CES 2025. Although it is not a finished product yet, we managed to test it in action, as it is a working prototype. Moreover, it is significantly improved compared to the last year’s ZOTAC Zone model.
The most important update is the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 4nm processor based on the Strix Point architecture. The chip has 12 computing cores (4 performance and 8 energy-efficient cores, 24 threads) based on Zen 5 architecture, 24 MB of shared L3 cache and 1 MB of L2 cache per core. It also includes a Radeon 890M GPU based on RDNA 3.5 architecture with 16 compute units. The Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 has a standard TDP of 28W and can be configured with TDPs from 15W to 54W, giving ZOTAC a lot of options for performance. It also features an XDNA NPU with 50 TOPS performance.
ZOTAC has also increased the amount of LPDDR5X RAM to 32GB and the storage capacity of the M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0 SSD to 1TB. In fact, we are looking at a full-fledged gaming PC in a pocket form factor.
The new Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 is a significant upgrade from the Ryzen 7 8840U (Hawk Point) in the first ZOTAC ZONE portable console, which offered an 8-core/16-thread Zen 4 CPU and Radeon 780M GPU. The original model had 16GB of LPDDR5X memory and 512GB of M.2 NVMe 2280 PCIe 4.0 storage.
ZOTAC decided to keep the same 7-inch OLED screen with a 120Hz refresh rate. This is not a bad thing, as it already had an advantage over other portable consoles on the market as it was the only one with an OLED panel.
Other features include Hall-effect joysticks and triggers, a 48.5 Wh battery, Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.2, a microSD UHS-II card slot, USB4 ports, and a built-in stand.
The new version of the ZONE GAMING portable game console will be released later this year. Its price has not yet been disclosed.
Source: techpowerup
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