We paid a visit to Zotac’s booth on the first day of Computex 2025. Located at Hall 1 of the Nangang Exhibition Centre and like all brands on the floor, the brand had its portfolio on site for us to see.
One of the first things I made a beeline for was Zotac’s refreshed Zone gaming handheld. As previously reported, the console is refitted with a more powerful AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, versus the Ryzen 7 8840U processor that was used in the original model.
Besides the APU, Zotac basically retained the design of the Zone. That means the same controller and button layout, the same trigger sensitivity switches, and the same odd placement of the webcam.
On a related note, I wasn’t able to play around with the Zotac Zone as much, primarily due to its controls being buggy. By that, I mean it had games running on it but due to the software being so buggy, but nothing save for the touch screen would work, and even then, it wouldn’t register button presses.
Zotac was also flexing its creative muscle, in a sense, with its Mark Case Mod casing that makes use of two PC systems and a fancy use of a lot of mirrors. Honestly, the casing is more of an exercise in aesthetics than it is in functionality.
There was also the AIO-cooled RTX 5090 ArcticStorm GPU, essentially a contender to ASUS’ RTX 5090 Astral AIO model. It’s…visually interesting and all, but in terms of practicality, the only folks I see getting the GPU – assuming it even enters the Malaysian market – are the ones with loads of disposable income, tariffs notwithstanding.
There was, of course, Zotac’s own custom-cooled versions of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 that officially launched a couple of days ago but the star of this show was the Low Profile model. This was as big as my hand and yet, by some miracle in engineering, the good folks in the brand’s design department still managed to cram in a triple-fan cooling solution and still make it look impressively cool.
