All of us in the PC Gamer Hardware tower-of-tech love a good handheld gaming PC. Whether it’s the luscious screen and brilliant software ecosystem of the OLED Steam Deck or the raw power of the ROG Ally X, the market is awash with all kinds of devices. And now Zotac, purveyor of GeForce RTX graphics cards and mini PCs, is throwing its gauntlet into the ring with its Zone handheld, replete with a 7-inch AMOLED screen.

The display is probably the biggest selling feature of the Zotac Gaming Zone and we first laid our eyes (and sticky mitts) on it back in January, at the annual Computex event. In terms of size, resolution, and refresh rate, it’s par course for the market (7 inches, 1080p, 120 Hz) but it uses an AMOLED touch-sensitive panel, with a claimed colour gamut of more than 100…