RedMagic eSports Tablet Pro Review: Smaller and Stronger Ultra Flagship, A Tool for Gamers to Level Up

Nowadays, new Android tablets equipped with flagship mobile platforms are constantly breaking the boundaries of vision. The 12- or 13-inch displays are indeed stunning and beneficial for multimedia playback and productivity applications, but the accompanying increase in size and weight can affect the experience of holding the tablet during gaming.

With the release of the Red Magic eSports Tablet Pro, gaming tablet enthusiasts finally have a new option. This product features a relatively compact 10.9-inch body and is the first to bring the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Leading Edition to the non-mobile domain, enhanced by Red Magic's signature high-speed centrifugal fan, offering the strongest performance foundation in the Android tablet arena.

In terms of design, Red Magic has never disappointed players with its phones, gaming laptops, or peripherals, and the eSports Tablet Pro is no exception. Its 10.9-inch size makes it the smallest flagship tablet released this year, with a thickness of 7.3mm and a tested weight of 533g, which reduces wrist strain.

Currently available Android tablets generally emphasize either a minimalist or business-oriented appearance, while the biggest difference with the Red Magic eSports Tablet Pro is its more rugged and cool design, achieving extreme performance in heat dissipation.

The Red Magic eSports Tablet Pro adopts an integrated metal body, with a surface treated through anodizing for a strong metallic feel. The CNC-milled frame features 45° anti-slip chamfers, providing excellent grip. This product is available in two classic colors: Deuterium Silver Wing and Deuterium Dark Night.

A highlight of the design is the skylight on the upper back cover, covered with a layer of lens-grade high-transparency, wear-resistant aluminum-silicon glass, revealing the internal 3D heat pipe and etched circuit decorative plate, exuding a strong sense of technology.

Next to this is a decorative element formed by a circular centrifugal fan and a 50-megapixel camera, with the lens module also incorporating etched circuit decorations—it's cool, to say the least. When the breathing lights and fan RGB effects start to flicker, the eSports vibe becomes evident.

The power button is located in a recess on the left side frame, almost parallel to the border, so there's no need to worry about accidentally turning off the screen during gameplay. This power button also includes a fingerprint recognition function, further enhancing security. The right side of the device is equipped with a fully functional Type-C interface, the top features a magnetic area for charging the Red Magic Magic Touch Pen, and the bottom includes metal contacts for a smart magnetic keyboard.

The Red Magic eSports Tablet Pro features a 16:10 aspect ratio LCD screen with very narrow bezels on all sides, providing a great visual immersion experience. This screen boasts a resolution of 2880×1800 pixels, a refresh rate of 144Hz, and an instantaneous touch sampling rate of 840Hz, supporting SGS low blue light eye protection technology. The display quality is impressive, without the screen flicker risks associated with OLED screens, ensuring maximum eye health even during long gaming sessions at low brightness.

On the sides and top of the body, there are four groups of speaker openings corresponding to the built-in symmetrical four-channel super-linear speakers, supporting DTS
Ultra certified sound, delivering stunning stereo sound in a compact space. There are also three MIC openings for a dual-array noise-canceling microphone plus a game-specific microphone. This product also features an 0815 dual X-axis linear motor, customized 4D vibration for several popular mobile games, and a massive 10,100mAh battery with 120W fast charging, allowing it to fully recharge in about 50 minutes—sufficient to alleviate most players' concerns about battery life.

Additionally, NFC is included in the Red Magic eSports Tablet Pro, achieving a comprehensive range of distance features; it just lacks infrared remote control and wireless charging. The core competitive advantage of this product is naturally the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Leading Edition mobile platform, which features a peak CPU core frequency of up to 3.4GHz, combined with LPDDR5X memory and UFS4.0 flash storage, forming a performance trifecta that can easily achieve a score close to 2.2 million in AnTuTu.

Red Magic also brings its eSports phone’s cooling technology into the tablet domain, incorporating a nine-layer strong cooling system featuring a high-speed centrifugal fan, PC-grade 3D heat pipes, 3D internal airflow channels, superconducting graphene, superconducting copper foil, and thermal gel, allowing the tablet to remain cool even under heavy pressure.

However, the Red Magic eSports Tablet Pro does not have openings on the body; the airflow generated by the centrifugal fan is only used to accelerate the circulation of air in the 3D internal airflow channels. Nonetheless, thanks to the more spacious airflow channels inside the tablet, the large area of the 3D heat pipes ensures that its cooling capability remains top-tier in the tablet domain. Moreover, this internal circulation design helps to prevent dust ingress and reduce fan noise; even in rapid cooling mode, the noise is minimal, only detectable when one’s ear is very close to the fan.

In the 3DMark's 20-round extreme stress test (Wild Life Extreme Stress Test), the highest score achieved by the Red Magic eSports Tablet Pro was 5502, with a lowest score of 4962, and stability exceeding 90%, which is considered very stable performance. Earlier, many influencers have conducted numerous professional tests on the gaming experience of the Red Magic eSports Tablet Pro. In summary, the two keywords that arise are “full frame” and “ultra stability.” Whether it's Genshin Impact or Naraka: Bladepoint, this tablet can handle them effortlessly.

The Red Magic eSports Tablet Pro includes a CUBE Energy Cube, which can be activated by sliding inward twice from the edge, allowing for a system-level resource scheduling engine that can save power in light scenarios and unleash higher performance in heavy scenarios. In touch adjustments, you can customize sampling rates, responsiveness, gyroscope settings, and the edge anti-misclick range to suit your handling habits. It is recommended that everyone try fine-tuning here, as there might be surprises. Here, you can also switch performance modes, configure GPU parameters, display styles, sound modes, network low latency, fan auto-start, and virtual joystick functionalities, covering nearly all needs of gamers.

For example, the native resolution of the mobile version of Genshin Impact is only 720P. If you feel that it is not detailed enough on the 10.9-inch wide display, you can always enable the [Super Realm Quality], and after restarting the game, you can achieve super resolution, enhancing the image quality to 2K, fully utilizing the display advantages of this 2.8K screen.

The X-Gravitation platform is also a major feature of this product, allowing for connections with any brand of controller or mouse and keyboard via wired or wireless (Bluetooth) methods. The system has also prepared key mappings for several popular games, such as the chicken-shaped controller I purchased earlier, which can be perfectly adapted and played immediately. The Red Magic eSports Tablet Pro also features a fully functional Type-C interface, supporting wired/wireless 4K 144Hz display output with zero latency for gaming on an external monitor, providing a PC and console-like visual and control experience when paired with controllers or mice and keyboards. Based on the AI model restructured and upgraded by the Red Magic Cube, the REDMAGIC 9.5 system allows this product to possess stronger autonomous learning, content creation, and smart perception capabilities, thereby better supporting image extraction, smart key mapping, AI triggers, and other new gaming methods.

Overall, the Red Magic eSports Tablet Pro is a professional-grade gaming device, achieving a high standard in terms of appearance design, hardware configuration, performance release, cooling ability, battery life, and audio vibration response. Its compact size of 10.9 inches provides a better long-term holding experience compared to similarly ranked flagship tablets. The fully functional Type-C interface, combined with the X-Gravitation platform, breaks the terminal barriers between phones and tablets, allowing players to freely choose among controllers, glasses, display output, and keyboard/mouse combinations, enhancing the playability to a new level.