Tencent's new 3D One gaming handheld teased: gigantic 11-inch screen, Intel Lunar Lake CPU

Tencent has just unveiled its new 3D One gaming handheld prototype, with a rather gigantic 11-inch display, and powered by an Intel Core Ultra 7 258V "Lunar Lake" processor. Check it out:

The standard feature of the new 3D One handheld is the 11-inch 2.5K display with a smooth 120Hz refresh rate, Tencent has even baked in 3D eye-tracking technology, providing another layer of immersion in games that support it. Tencent is using Intel's new Core Ultra 7 258V "Lunar Lake" processor with 4 Lion Cove and 4 Skymont cores.

There is 32GB of LPDDR5X-8533 memory and Intel Arc 140V graphics based on the Xe2-LPG GPU architecture, something that we've seen powering new waves of Intel Lunar Lake laptops.

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It's not the best mobile chip on the market for gaming -- AMD has that with Strix Point, and will utterly dominate the APU business in 2025 with the introduction of Strix Halo -- but it's still a huge upgrade from the GPU inside of Meteor Lake (which found its way into some gaming handhelds, and it wasn't so great).

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Tencent's new 3D One gaming handheld prototype might have a nutso-style 11-inch 2.5K 120Hz display, but it also has a huge battery (we don't know how big) and ultra-fast 100W charging.

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We should expect that the 3D One gaming handheld would be running Windows 11 (or maybe even a custom Linux distribution), but in order to capture more of the market, not having Windows 11 on this handheld would feel like a huge downside.

We don't know if the Tencent 3D One gaming handheld will make it to retail as it's just a prototype right now, but with CES 2025 right around the corner in a little over 5 weeks... it would be cool to see a huge 11-inch 2.5K 120Hz gaming handheld at the show.