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Steam Deck OLED vs Legion Go review: did I make the right choice?
Following a last-minute leak, Lenovo on Friday announced the Legion Go, a portable Windows 11 machine designed to challenge the Steam Deck and the recently announced ASUS ROG Ally. The device is notable for having a display that’s significantly larger than those on its competitors. Lenovo has equipped the Legion Go with an 8.8-inch 2560 x 1600 IPS touchscreen panel with a native refresh rate of 144Hz. In terms of performance, this means the Go’s display is not only more detailed than the displays on the Steam Deck and ROG Ally, but it’s also faster.
Another point of difference is the Nintendo Switch-inspired design. You can detach the Legion Go’s controllers from the main body. The handheld also comes with a kickstand and a touchpad. As for ports, the Legion Go comes with a 3.5mm headphone jack and two USB-C ports that allow for DisplayPort 1.4 output and power delivery.
Internally, the Legion Go is powered by the same AMD Z1 Extreme chipset as the ROG Ally. The Extreme packs an eight-core, 16-thread processor based on AMD’s Zen 4 architecture and integrated RDNA3 graphics. The Legion Go comes with 16GB of 7500MHz DDR5X memory and 512GB of NVMe storage. You can configure the handheld with up to 1TB of internal storage, and add up to 2TB additional storage later thanks to MicroSD expandability. Lenovo hasn’t said how long the Legion Go’s battery life will last, but the device will feature a 49.2Wh battery.
