Windows 11 prestige handhelds review: Lenovo Legion Go vs OneXPlayer 2 Pro vs AyaNeo Kun
It’s time to take another look at a range of Windows-based handhelds and this time, we’re testing the most advanced, most powerful hardware on the market right now – the actual big boys of the handheld range – stacking them up against the established frontrunners: Steam Deck (in both LCD and OLED incarnations) and the Asus ROG Ally.
Primarily, I looked at three offerings and you’ll find their comparative specifications in a handy table below. They are all fundamentally based on the same AMD silicon (whether you want to call it the Ryzen 7 7840U or the Z1 Extreme) paired with LPDDR5 memory. The amount of memory varies – 16GB is generally enough, but we’re starting to see titles that would prefer more (a factor of that 16GB being shared between graphics and system memory). With that in mind, the 32GB and 64GB of the OneXPlayer 2 Pro and AyaNeo Kun respectively can prove compelling.
So far, so Asus ROG Ally, but form factors on these devices are remarkably different. They aren’t afraid to supersize to the point where the already-quite-big Steam Deck and ROG Ally are dwarfed by all three of these jumbo machines. The Lenovo Legion Go is defined by a gigantic 8.8-inch LCD with 60Hz, 120Hz and 144Hz support and a resolution of 2560×1600. AyaNeo Kun and OneXPlayer 2 Pro are smaller-but-still-huge at 8.4 inches and the same resolution, albeit limited to 60Hz only.
| Asus ROG Ally | Lenovo Legion Go | OneXPlayer 2 Pro | AyaNeo Kun | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Processor | AMD Z1 Extreme | AMD Z1 Extreme | Ryzen 7 7840U | Ryzen 7 7840U |
| CPU | Zen4, Eight Cores, 16 Threads, Max 5.0GHz | Zen4, Eight Cores, 16 Threads, Max 5.0GHz | Zen4, Eight Cores, 16 Threads, Max 5.1GHz | Zen4, Eight Cores, 16 Threads, Max 5.1GHz |
| GPU | RDNA 3, 12 Compute Units, Max 2.6GHz | RDNA 3, 12 Compute Units, Max 2.6GHz | RDNA 3, 12 Compute Units, Max 2.7GHz | RDNA 3, 12 Compute Units, Max 2.7GHz |
| Max SoC TDP | Up to 30W (25W Portable) | Up to 30W | Up to 30W | Up to 54W |
| Memory | 16GB LPDDR5 6400MT/s | 16GB LPDDR5 7500MT/s | 32GB LPDDR5 7500MT/s | 32GB/64GB LPDDR5 7500MT/s |
| Display | 7-inch 1920×1080 – 120Hz IPS with VRR | 8.8-inch 2560×1600 – 60/120/144Hz IPS | 8.4-inch 2560×1600 – 60Hz IPS | 8.4-inch 2560×1600 – 60Hz IPS |
Bigger, weightier, thicker, there’s room for two USB type-Cs and even a Type-A on the Kun and OneXPlayer 2 Pro, with the latter in particular remarkable in just how thick it is. The Go has detachable controllers that work like Switch joycons, which it seems that the OneXPlayer 2 Pro emulates – except that while detachable, they need to be connected to a hub to actually work. There’s no such luxury on the AyaNeo Kun, but it does get dual trackpads – a rarity on Windows handhelds (but standard on the Deck of course). The Legion Go has one such pad, and an innovative ‘cradle’ for the right controller that makes it act like a mouse. Interesting!
