With its 8.4-inch show, the Ayaneo Kun is just below the display screen diagonal of the Legion Move. Alternatively, the Kun has a couple of benefits over its competitor from Lenovo: no different hand held in our database has any such vivid display screen, any such huge battery, and permits such a lot of watts for the processor. The AMD Ryzen 7 7840U can paintings with as much as 54 watts within the Kun. This offers a issues spice up in lots of benchmarks. Alternatively, our top-equipped tool with 64 GB RAM and a 4 TB NVMe SSD additionally has its susceptible issues. With that stated, those are neither within the thumb sticks or triggers with Corridor impact sensors nor within the different enter units. Whether or not the susceptible webcam, which different handhelds do not even be offering, may also be regarded as a weak point could also be questionable. Alternatively, an NVMe SSD that briefly overheats is a efficiency factor. For no less than 1,000 euros, the hand-held from Ayaneo will have to be offering much more than the Lenovo Legion Move, which is most certainly its direct competitor.
Ayaneo additionally does much better than Lenovo with the just lately examined Legion Move. The Kun stays a vintage, albeit surprisingly huge hand held. Different fascinating competition are the Steam Deck OLED, the Asus ROG Best friend, and the Ayaneo Air 1S for any individual in search of a way smaller tool for his or her pocket.
The casing of the Ayaneo Kun is made virtually solely of plastic. Our check tool is painted in steel silver, different apparatus variants are black or white, with some considerably extra colourful accents. The Kun is easily made throughout and has a excessive stage of torsional tension. With 2.1 cm between the controllers, the massive hand held is even slimmer than the Legion Move. Alternatively, at just below 950 grams, the Ayaneo hand held additionally holds the now not truly sure file for weight. No different hand held in our database is heavier. There’s a steel stand at the again of the Kun. With a docking station or a corresponding dongle, the robust tool can change into the middle of the table.
As befits a gaming tool, the Kun additionally provides a number of RGB lighting fixtures. Those are disbursed around the two thumbsticks and the Ayaneo button.
The Kun is an engaging tool proper out of the field. Its packaging is manufactured from wooden and acrylic glass, amongst different fabrics. This makes it chic and top of the range. Our unboxing on YouTube provides an perception into this:
Along with two totally geared up USB-C ports, the Kun additionally provides a Kind-A port. The microSD card reader is safe underneath the integrated stand. If you need, you’ll additionally upload an LTE modem to the massive hand held. There’s a corresponding connection at the mainboard and a SIM card slot could also be underneath the stand. The microSD card reader and WLAN have a nice pace. Best the integrated webcam does now not have nice symbol high quality. Alternatively, that is in reality handiest supposed for use for facial reputation by means of Home windows Hi and now not for video calls. Accordingly, the digital camera does now not have an infrared filter out. This may also be observed within the excessive colour deviations within the check pictures under. A fingerprint scanner within the energy button could also be to be had for logging into Home windows.
Disassembling the Ayaneo Kun isn’t truly simple. First, it’s important to take away the 2 grip covers at the again. The strip between the shoulder buttons additionally must be got rid of – this exposes the screws that wish to be got rid of. To get right of entry to all of the connections within, take away additional screws and unplug some ribbon cables. Specific consideration will have to be paid to the ribbon cable for the fingerprint sensor. Even supposing that is lengthy sufficient to soundly take away the ground shell, it would simply be broken by way of bending. To get right of entry to the M.2-2280 NVMe SSD, the relationship board for the microSD card reader and the SIM card will have to first be got rid of. As with the Air 1S, there’s a guaranty decal on one of the crucial screws, however this may also be simply got rid of utterly. The WLAN module may also be changed however it’s put in even deeper. The fan and the plastic body additionally should be got rid of in an effort to get right of entry to the plug-in card. The relationship for the LTE modem isn’t utilized in our case however might be retrofitted. Alternatively, we didn’t see any corresponding antennas pre-assembled in our check tool. For older handhelds, Ayaneo provides many spare portions in its personal retailer. Portions for the Ayaneo Kun are certain to observe quickly.
Even supposing the Kun is a truly huge hand held, all buttons, thumbsticks, and triggers are simple to achieve. It is a bit more tricky to perform the two-round touchpads with out converting your grip. Along with the usual buttons of an Xbox controller, the Kun provides a couple of extra buttons that can be utilized by means of the Ayaspace, which we examined within the Ayaneo Air 1S evaluation. There are 4 further buttons at the again of the hand-held and two buttons between the shoulder triggers. There also are serve as buttons at the entrance, a few of which may also be configured.
Very similar to the Steam Deck, the Ayaneo Kun additionally has two touchpads, which facilitate navigation at the desktop and may also be programmed for macros and purposes in video games. In conventional Ayaneo type, the producer makes use of Corridor impact sensors for the triggers and thumbsticks. Those are regarded as wear-free and will have to due to this fact by no means show off stick flow. Alternatively, the 2 rubberized aluminium thumbsticks now not handiest provoke with their look in our check. They’re, there is not any different technique to put it, very direct and be offering exact inputs with a tiny useless zone across the 0 place.
Every other query that every now and then arises with handhelds is the standard of the haptic comments supplied by way of vibration and haptic motors. The Kun provides a era referred to as the Ayaneo HD Linear Motor. The motors transfer somewhat huge lots in the hand-held, which will generate a powerful and noticeably directional rumble. The 2 linear motors are situated a ways outdoor the tool and practice their power very at once. Which means that the Kun supplies clearer comments than the Ayaneo Air 1S or the Lenovo Legion Move.
Ayaneo advertises the Kun with a display screen brightness of as much as 500 cd/m², 100% of sRGB, and 90% of the DisplayP3 colour gamut. The display screen within the Kun obviously exceeds this. We measured as much as 700 cd/m² with a less-than-perfect illumination of 91%. The IPS panel is very sharp with 2,560 × 1,600 pixels, and provides nice reaction occasions. Alternatively, at 60 Hz, it has a considerably decrease refresh price than the Legion Move. Which means that V-Sync is steadily obligatory for this vertical pill show when gaming. Differently, tearing happens in lots of video games. In follow, the asymmetric illumination isn’t noticeable, however the show’s nice colour replica and excessive distinction are.
We can’t make a decision whether or not correct colour replica is truly important for a gaming tool. Alternatively, our measurements display that the Ayaneo Kun values may also be progressed with our ICC document (within the data field) to an excellent degree, which might even be suitable for pro graphic designers.
The backlight of the Kun is regulated by way of DC dimming, however the capacitors required for this don’t appear to have somewhat the precise capability. In sure brightness settings between 80 % and 30 %, we see an excessively high-frequency flickering at round 20 kHz. Alternatively, this will have to now not motive issues even for delicate folks.
Even supposing the Ayaneo Kun has an excessively vivid show, the clarity of the display screen at the gaming hand held is considerably impaired outside and underneath sturdy gentle assets. Right here you steadily must benefit from the nice viewing angles to steer clear of reflections.
The Ayaneo Kun may also be configured with 16, 32, or 64 GB of RAM, in addition to mass garage capacities between 512 GB and four TB. Relying at the configuration decided on, now not all colour variants are to be had. The AMD Ryzen 7 7840U is utilized in all configuration variants. Along with technically very identical AMD Ryzen Z1 Excessive, this APU is lately utilized in virtually all gaming handhelds.
The TDP of the processor within the Ayaneo KUN may also be set between 5 and 54 watts. This raises the PL2 to a relatively excessive worth. If the processor spice up could also be disabled within the Ayaspace, the efficiency of the CPU cores within the Ryzen 7 7840U stays restricted to twenty-eight watts. Best the RX 780M is then allowed to paintings at complete most efficiency. There also are more than a few settings for the cooling mode, which considerably affect the device efficiency and in addition the noise degree.
Within the check, we used a TDP of 54 watts and the Max cooling mode for all benchmarks. One technique to building up the efficiency of the Ayaneo Kun somewhat is to run the fan at 100%. Differently, the fan’s most pace used to be now not reached within the check.
We just lately had a couple of laptops with AMD’s robust Ryzen 7 7840U within the check. In no different tool is the processor, which is in reality designed for an influence intake of 28 watts, provided with as a lot calories as within the check tool. This places the Ayaneo Kun on the height of the comparability box on the subject of multi-core efficiency. When put next, alternatively, our check tool handiest carried out mediocre within the single-core benchmarks. Alternatively, all 8 cores and 16 threads of the CPU will have to be used when gaming.
The ROG Best friend Z1 Excessive and the Lenovo Legion Move are geared up with an AMD Z1 Excessive. This processor is technically similar to the AMD Ryzen 7 7840U within the Kun however does with out the Ryzen AI. In case you examine the CB-R23 multi-core result of other efficiency ranges between the 2 chips, it turns into transparent that the Z1 Excessive is most certainly slightly extra energy-efficient. We will be able to take a look at the level to which this impacts the primary process of the gaming hand held within the Gaming segment.
In spite of the excessive processor efficiency, the Ayaneo Kun isn’t on the height of the comparability box within the PCMark 10 benchmark. This might be because of the slightly gradual RAM and the NVMe SSD, which throttles briefly. In the end, the Ayaneo Kun can handiest display its complete efficiency within the Virtual Content material Introduction segment, the place CPU and GPU efficiency are extra vital.
The gaming hand held simply copes with on a regular basis duties. Even if gaming, you do not understand the every now and then gradual SSD. The issue handiest briefly turns into obvious when copying greater recordsdata.
Our DPC latency check is composed of browsing, streaming, and a brief load with Prime95, which makes use of all processor cores. Best with the final step did the measured latency building up within the Ayaneo Kun check to such an extent that LatencyMon known doable issues. The huge hand held will have to now not generally have issues of over the top latency.
The Phison M.2 2280 E18 4000GB NVMe SSD is in reality an excessively rapid mass garage tool, however it additionally has a tendency to overheat briefly if it isn’t cooled correctly. We additionally see this drawback in our DiskSPD loop. After simply 3 runs, an SSD begins to throttle. Consequently, the learn pace drops hugely – from round 6,900 MB/s to round 620 MB/s. We’re stunned that Ayaneo does now not use a thermal pad to deplete one of the SSD’s waste warmth by means of the steel stand.
Within the Ayaneo Kun, the RX 780M has the best possible wattage within the comparability box and due to this fact one may just be expecting that the iGPU will have to have a transparent merit over all different comparability units. If truth be told, alternatively, the Ayaneo Kun’s lead is somewhat small. As soon as once more, we will be able to see that the Ayaneo Kun plays somewhat higher than the ROG Best friend or the Legion Move, however the merit does now not correspond to the upper energy intake of the processor.
If you wish to make the most of the whole QHD+ answer of the show within the Ayaneo Kun for gaming, you’ll most certainly must make do with both low body charges or low high quality ranges. As with the Lenovo Legion Move, we additionally to find that FullHD is extra consistent with the {hardware}’s features. Alternatively, this answer is completely good enough at the small 8.4-inch display screen. Then again, upscaling applied sciences are to be had in lots of present titles, which could have a considerably sure affect at the body charges.
Not one of the titles from our Steam library have been unplayable on the hand-held. Lots of the present titles even ran extraordinarily easily in excessive or most high quality settings. Best Hogwarts Legacy and Cyberpunk 2077 have been an exception right here. Alternatively, AMD FSR is to be had in each titles, which guarantees nice body charges of as much as 45 fps at QHD+ and top of the range settings.
In some instances, the excessive efficiency with which the AMD Ryzen 7 and its iGPU are allowed to paintings within the Kun is obviously noticeable within the check effects. However, and this will have to be stated in all readability, the diversities between the Asus ROG Best friend Z1 Excessive and the Lenovo Legion Move are as soon as once more now not so nice that one can be expecting important benefits from the Kun. A TDP surroundings of 30 watts could also be completely enough to run the entire video games examined easily. This reduces the facility intake and considerably improves the battery existence.
The other cooling modes within the Ayaneo Kun additionally ensure that very other background noise ranges. In Quiet cooling mode, the fan does flip somewhat, however our size microphone infrequently detects any exchange to the ambient quantity at 25 dB(A), even at a distance of 15 cm. The Balanced plan reaches a most of 35 dB(A), or even the utmost cooling mode stays at a tolerable quantity of 44 dB(A). If you wish to run the fan continuously at 100% pace, it’s important to post with round 51 dB(A). This corresponds to just about two times the perceived quantity in comparison to the utmost cooling mode.
The efficiency of the processor at the Ayaneo Kun may also be adjusted very freely. This additionally will increase or decreases the waste warmth and in the end the desired fan pace. TDP values of 30 watts are enough for the gaming hand held in maximum video games. Its noise degree of 35 dB(A) is due to this fact somewhat less than that of the Legion Move. If you wish to use the whole energy of the tool, you’ll have to are living with the excessive quantity.
With gaming handhelds, the temperature of the units over lengthy distances is a decisive consider whether or not the tool is appropriate for gaming in any respect. Our thermal pictures in addition to our sensible enjoy display that the Kun stays pleasantly cool, a minimum of within the spaces the place it counts. The 2 controllers and all buttons handiest warmth as much as simply above room temperature. The display screen and the again above the mainboard change into considerably hotter. Our thermal imaging digital camera confirmed 90 °C at the again, however it needs to be stated that the direct floor measurements of the plastic housing and the display screen are nearer to 60 °C. We suspect that the steel paint irritates the thermal imaging digital camera. The Ok-Kind thermocouple and the Fluke t3000 most certainly display extra affordable values. This additionally confirms the subjective temperature sensation.
The 2 audio system within the check tool supply a tight sound that may even stay alongside of greater laptops. Since the audio system within the Kun level downward, they’re generally directed towards the person. Alternatively, our check setup does now not somewhat do justice to the perceived sound of the hand-held, as decrease tones may also be reproduced by way of the Kun by means of the vibration motors if desired. This guarantees that bass tones are obviously extra perceptible. Subjectively, the sound is a lot more robust.
A 100-watt USB-C energy provide unit is integrated with the Ayaneo Kun. This could also be urgently wanted as a result of in conjunction with the intense display screen and the robust processor, the gaming hand held has a corresponding energy intake. As much as 90 watts may also be accomplished when gaming. This places the Kun neatly above the Legion Move if the TDP at the Kun is about accordingly excessive. Alternatively, the opposite calories measurements additionally display that the Kun may also be slightly extra energy-efficient than its direct competitor from Lenovo, particularly at medium and coffee so much.
As already famous within the quantity and function benchmarks, the Ayaneo Kun offers the person numerous freedom on the subject of configuration. The producer leaves it as much as the person to make a decision what efficiency they would like from the tool and when. This additionally applies to energy intake, floor temperatures, and fan quantity.
With its 75 Wh, the battery within the Ayaneo Kun is the biggest within the comparability box. Somebody assuming that this additionally way the longest battery existence will sadly be dissatisfied. As soon as once more, all of it will depend on how you employ the gaming hand held. In case you prohibit fps and TDP and in addition set the display screen brightness to a low worth, you’ll play The Witcher 3 in FullHD with Extremely high quality preset at 30 fps for round 1:41 h on a unmarried fee. We have been in a position to play Hogwarts Legacy with FSR and framerate limitation for round two hours. In older titles, you’ll every now and then prohibit the processor efficiency such a lot {that a} TDP of 9 watts is enough. This additionally makes 4 or 5 hours of gaming conceivable. Alternatively, when you set all settings to the utmost, you’ll quickly understand that the Ayaneo Kun battery can drain its energy inside of 50 mins.
For workplace packages, browsing, and light-weight browser video games, alternatively, the battery will have to final a long time. In our sensible WiFi internet browsing check, the Ayaneo Kun accomplished a powerful worth of over ten hours within the PC Place of job efficiency plan.
In response to our reviews within the check, it might be simple to mention that the Ayaneo Kun is awesome in virtually all respects when in comparison to the Lenovo Legion Move. However sadly, it isn’t that easy, since the Legion Move is to be had ranging from 800 euros in Europe, whilst the Ayaneo Kun needs to be imported for no less than 1,000 euros. Which means that import gross sales tax (round 200 euros) nonetheless needs to be paid. This raises the query as to what extent a surcharge of 400 euros is justified. At the plus aspect, the Kun has excessive efficiency, which may also be configured very freely, a vivid display screen, superb controllers, an enduring battery, and nice sound. In those respects, the Kun is obviously awesome to the Legion Move. The Kun rankings further issues for its excessive case high quality, modular design (WLAN module, 2280 M.2 NVMe SSD, and conceivable LTE modem), and extra delightful really feel. However the Lenovo Legion Move additionally shines with its very personal benefits, which we spotlight within the corresponding evaluation.
In relation to natural gaming, alternatively, the subjective distinction between the 2 units is very small. Because of the 144 Hz show, the Legion Move can even carry out somewhat higher right here. Objectively talking, the 2 units also are kind of on par in response to the benchmark effects. If you’re purchasing a hand held to make use of it as a desktop substitute by means of a docking station on an exterior observe, the Ayaneo Kun would possibly in reality be somewhat higher. Along with somewhat higher I/O ports, it additionally has more potent computing energy for sure packages.
The Ayaneo Kun is a formidable, huge, and handsome gaming hand held. However the more than a few units from the contest also are sturdy.
In the end, the Ayaneo Kun is beneficial for any individual who loves to tweak their {hardware} extra than simply switching a efficiency plan. In case you become familiar with the probabilities of the Aya House, you’ll get an out of this world quantity of efficiency. In fact, it’s essential additionally tweak the {hardware} of the massive gaming hand held. Hobbyists will have to be a lot happier with the Ayaneo Kun than with maximum different handhelds. We additionally spotted one thing identical with the Ayaneo Air 1S. If, however, you need a tool that you’ll merely play video games with, you will have to most certainly go for the Lenovo Legion Move or the Asus ROG Best friend Z1 Excessive. Even supposing each units are considerably much less maintenance-friendly, they’re additionally more straightforward to regulate on the subject of efficiency.
Our check tool with 64 GB RAM and four TB NVMe SSD will have to value round 1,700 euros from the producer. Import tasks and import gross sales tax would possibly should be added. The most affordable configuration of the Kun is to be had within the Ayaneo retailer for round 1,000 euros. This may lately even be pre-ordered at Indiegogo for round 900 euros.
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