Will play those 20-year-old console games sooo good.
CES 2025 has brought a bounty of tech. But among the many, many things shown off this year, Lenovo had something special as far as tablets are concerned: the Legion Tab Gen 3.
The new Legion Tab comes with an 8.8-inch 2.5K touchscreen display with an eye-popping 165 Hz refresh rate. Its thin and lightweight, yet durable due to the metal body construction, with the device measuring 7.79mm thick and weighing in at just 0.77lbs (350g).
The real star of the show is the CPU: Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. It seems to be the current king of the hill, even beating out Apple’s A18 Pro, the current processor the company uses in their iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max. And the third gen Snapdragon 8 is all that, offering frame rates as high as 165 fps. It’s even capable of advanced ray tracing, so whatever games you can find that actually use it will look pretty dang good.
Aside from the CPU, the Legion Tab Gen 3 also comes with 12GB of LPDDR5X RAM, 256GB of internal storage and a whopping 6550mAh battery. It also supports bypass charging, which means that when you plug it in for power, it won’t charge the battery, which will keep that big, beautiful battery healthy for longer. For sound, it comes with dual Dolby Atmos speakers, as well as two onboard microphones. Finally, it comes with front and rear cameras, as has become customary for most smart devices.
Why all the power, you ask? Well, as you might expect, there’s not much available for Android systems that it can’t run, and run well. Well, as I joked about in the subheading, it’s really gonna emulate 6th-gen games well. You know, your PS2 and GameCube/Wii games. But with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, you may be surprised to find that it can emulate a Windows PC and run relatively recent AAA games. One wonders what else it may emulate, assuming someone provided the emulator to do so…
This may be Lenovo’s first steps toward their answer to the handheld computing boom.
And with all that power, they may be throwing down the gauntlet for developers.
Source: Hypebeast
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