Lenovo Legion Go S

Legion Go S or Legion Go 2?

The Go S stays in one piece. Lenovo built it around an 8-inch screen and fixed controllers, and it’s the only member of the family you can buy with SteamOS. Legion Go 2 goes the other way: a bigger 8.8-inch OLED, a 74Wh battery and controllers that detach.

Spec	Legion Go S	Legion Go 2	Legion Go
Screen	8-inch 1920 × 1200 IPS, 48–120Hz VRR	8.8-inch 1200p OLED, 144Hz	8.8-inch 2560 × 1600 IPS, 144Hz
Battery	55.5Wh	74Wh	49.2Wh
Controllers	Built in	Detachable	Detachable
Operating system	Windows 11 Home or SteamOS	Windows 11 Home	Windows 11 Home

If SteamOS is the draw, the choice is made: neither of the 8.8-inch models offers it. If you’re on Windows either way, it comes down to the OLED and the bigger battery against a one-piece body. The original Legion Go and Legion Go 2 have their own guides.

SteamOS or Windows: decided at checkout

Lenovo sells the Go S with Windows 11 Home or with SteamOS, and each unit ships with just one. Windows models use the usual Windows PC game stores, plus Lenovo’s Legion software. On the SteamOS model, sold in the US as 83N6000GUS, your library is Steam.

An 8-inch screen with variable refresh

The 1920 × 1200 (16:10) IPS touchscreen runs anywhere from 48 to 120Hz with VRR, so the refresh rate can follow a game’s frame rate inside that range. Brightness is rated at 500 nits, color at 100% of sRGB and contrast at 1200:1. The glass is Panda King, with an anti-fingerprint coating, and the panel carries TÜV Low Blue Light certification. It’s smaller and lower-resolution than the original Legion Go’s 8.8-inch 2560 × 1600 panel, and bigger than the 7-inch 1080p screens found on some rivals.

Controls

The controllers are part of the body: ABXY, a D-pad, two sticks, LB and RB, LT and RT with range switches, four function buttons and two rear buttons, Y1 and Y2. On the right sits a buttonless 10 × 10 mm touchpad, and inside there’s an accelerometer and a 6-axis gyroscope.

Chip, memory and storage

The Go S uses AMD’s Ryzen Z1 Extreme (8 cores, 16 threads, 3.3GHz base, up to 5.1GHz) with integrated Radeon graphics that share the processor’s power budget. Memory is 16GB or 32GB of LPDDR5X-7500, soldered. Storage starts as a 512GB or 1TB M.2 2242 SSD, and there’s a spare M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0 x4 slot plus a microSD reader for more. Lenovo’s Legion Coldfront system handles cooling.

Battery and charging

The 55.5Wh battery is rated for 14.5 hours of local 1080p video at 150 nits. With Super Rapid Charge, a 10-minute top-up reaches 30%, 30 minutes reaches 70%, and 80 minutes fills it. Some configurations include a 65W USB-C adapter and some don’t. Lenovo’s 6 May 2026 PDF lists the USB4 ports as taking 65–100W of USB PD power and giving 15W out; its HTML spec page just says PD 3.0.

Ports and docking

Two USB4 40Gbps ports carry DisplayPort 1.4, and Lenovo suggests a USB-C dock for TV play. For wireless there’s Wi-Fi 6E (AMD’s RZ616) and Bluetooth 5.3, and you also get a card reader, a 3.5mm combo jack, stereo 2W speakers and two microphones. There’s no camera or fingerprint reader. It comes in Glacier White or Nebula Nocturne, with an RGB lighting ring.

Price

At CES 2025 Lenovo gave expected US starting prices of $729.99 for the first Windows model in January 2025, $599.99 for more Windows configurations from May 2025, and $499.99 for SteamOS from May 2025. Those were announcement prices, so check Lenovo’s US store before you buy.