The Keychron Q3 HE 8K Magnetic Switch Keyboard is a premium 80 percent keyboard engineered for competitive gaming and advanced customisation. Built with an aluminium body, double-gasket design, and ultra-responsive Keychron Ultra-Fast Lime Magnetic Switches, it delivers adjustable actuation from 0.1mm to 3.35mm, Rapid Trigger, Dynamic Keystrokes, and an ultra-fast 8,000Hz polling rate. Combined with OSA double-shot PBT keycaps, hot-swappable magnetic switches, south-facing RGB lighting, and extensive control through the Keychron Launcher web app, the Q3 HE 8K offers exceptional precision, acoustics, and build quality.
Features
Keychron Q3 HE 8K Magnetic Switch Keyboard
The Q3 HE 8K is compatible exclusively with the Keychron Ultra-fast Lime Magnetic Switch. It does not support other magnetic switches, such as the Gateron Magnetic Jade or Gateron KS-20 Magnetic switches.
Meet the Q3 HE 8K Edition—a precision-engineered 80% layout custom magnetic switch keyboard. It sets a new standard with a groundbreaking 8K polling rate and Keychron Ultra-Fast Lime Magnetic Switches. This advanced combination provides unrivalled precision and control, allowing you to fully customise your setup to match your individual style and dominate the game.
Beyond its 8000 Hz polling rate and magnetic switch, the Q3 HE 8K Edition is built with a double-gasket design, full-metal body, and double-shot PBT keycaps. Together, these elements enhance comfort, stability, and sound, ensuring a refined and responsive feel across every use.
- Full Metal Body
- Hot-Swappable
- Magnetic Switch
- Gasket Mount Design
- 8KHz Polling Rate
- Mac & Windows
- OSA PBT Keycaps
- Launcher Web Configurator
The Fully Assembled Version Includes:
- The keyboard PCB, the plate, the case, and the foams.
- Keycaps (included Mac & Windows keycaps).
- Adjustable-actuation-point Keychron Ultra-fast Lime Magnetic Switch.
Design - A Piece of Metal Art
Colour Versions
The entire metal body is crafted from 6063 aluminium, a material known for its increased durability, stability, and premium feel. Not only is this aluminium more resistant to physical damage, wear, and tear, but it is also environmentally friendly and recyclable. These qualities ensure both aesthetic appeal and a commitment to sustainability.
Magnetic Switch - Super Sensitive Fast Response
Keychron Ultra-Fast Lime Magnetic Switches
The Keychron Q3 HE 8K comes with pre-lubed Keychron Ultra-Fast Lime Magnetic Switches for an ultra-stable and ultra-responsive typing experience with an industry-leading, lightning-fast response time, and precise control over the way your keyboard feels and responds. Made from POM material, it delivers an incredibly satisfying, soft, and thocky typing sound, enhancing every keystroke for a more enjoyable typing experience.
Adjustable Actuation Point
Customise each key with precision, adjusting actuation points from 0.1 to 3.35 mm with 0.01 mm sensitivity. Set shallow keypresses for instant actions and deeper ones for deliberate engagement, minimising accidental touches and giving you an edge in both gaming and typing.
Last Key Priority (LKP) & Snap Click
LKP allows seamless directional changes by prioritising the last key pressed, ensuring smoother gameplay in titles like Valorant. With Snap Click, deeper keypresses take precedence when two keys are hit at once, automatically resetting shallower presses.
*They are disabled by default, but you can easily enable them in Keychron's Launcher web app when needed.
One Key. Multiple Actions
Thanks to Dynamic Keystrokes (DKS), you can now assign up to 4 distinct actions per key based on press depth. A light press moves your character, a deeper press makes them run, and releasing the key enables additional commands. This layered control lets you execute multiple moves with ease.
Dynamic Rapid Trigger
Activate or deactivate keys based on how far they travel, not predefined points. This means immediate key reactions—press to activate, release to reset—allowing for faster, more precise keystrokes. In rapid gameplay, this translates to executing complex actions in real-time without delay, giving you a serious advantage during fast-paced sequences.
Analogue Mode
Experience the power of Analogue Mode on your Q3 HE 8K, bringing game controller-like precision to your keyboard. This mode enables variable inputs instead of the usual on/off signals, letting you achieve more fluid and dynamic control.
With each keypress, the Q3 HE 8K detects how far you press, translating it into different speeds and intensities. Enjoy nuanced control and heightened responsiveness in racing games, sports simulations, and more.
Launcher Web App
Program with Launcher
With the Keychron Launcher web app, you can effortlessly remap each key and knob function, customise any macro command, shortcuts, or key combinations to unlock many more options, and make complex actions simple to enhance gaming or work efficiency. Take control and optimise your productivity like never before.
- HE Mode
- Keymap
- Backlight
- Firmware
* Please use the latest version of Chrome / Opera / Edge browser to open the Launcher.
Precision
Wired for 8K Speed
The Q3 HE 8K achieves an 8K polling rate in wired mode, ensuring the lowest possible input lag and ultra-responsive performance. The stable, high-bandwidth wired connection is essential for reliably maintaining this high 8K data transmission speed.
Powerful Arm Core
An Epic Core Inside the Keyboard
Engineered with a powerful chip (MCU) with 1MB flash to provide more flexibility for developers. The Q3 HE 8K featured a 3-position polling rate switch, supporting easy customisation between 1000Hz, 2000 Hz, and 8000Hz—with 8000Hz delivering optimal performance for competitive gaming.
Experience - Smoother, Faster, More Satisfying
Customise - Satisfying Keyboard Acoustics
To build a fully customisable keyboard, Keychron designed every component to be able to assemble easily. Therefore, you can customise and adjust each component as you wish.
Keycap
Double-shot PBT keycaps of the Q3 HE 8K provide excellent oil resistance and prevent the legends from fading out.
Top Case
A solid, premium aluminium body for a quieter, vibration-free typing experience.
Switch
The core magnetic component; it allows you to fully personalise the actuation point through contactless sensing.
Plate
The soft mounts can help reduce vibration and noise and give a cushioned typing feel.
Sound Absorbing Foam
By absorbing echo and noise, the sound absorbing foam produces a cleaner typing sound.
PCB
The circuit board that registers keystrokes; hot-swappable versions allow easy switch changes.
Latex Bottom Foams
The soft foams that can help reduce vibration and noise and give a cushioned typing feel.
Bottom Case Acoustic Foam
Designed to dampen internal acoustic reverberations and absorb noise for a cleaner typing sound.
Bottom Case
A solid, premium aluminium body for a quieter, vibration-free typing experience.
Double-Gasket Design
The Double Gasket Design is a new innovative structure in the industry. In addition to the gaskets on the plates, Keychron added silicone pads between the top and bottom cases to significantly reduce the acoustic resonance between the metals and reduce the noise of the impacted metals, ultimately delivering a superior typing experience.
Suitable for All Devices
Built with the Mac users’ experience in mind while still retaining compatibility for Windows devices, the Q3 HE 8K comes with a system toggle and an additional set of customised keycaps for both Windows and macOS systems. You can now save two different layouts on the keyboard, one for each system.
Hot-Swappable
Unlike mechanical switches, which depend on physical contact, magnetic switches use magnets to detect key presses. It is effortless to swap out the switch with compatible magnetic switches.
*The Q3 HE 8K is compatible with Keychron Ultra-fast Lime Magnetic Switch only now.
Keycap
OSA Profile Double-Shot PBT Keycaps
It has a similar height to that of the OEM profile and has an SA-like shape. Keychron named it the OSA (OEM spherical angled) keycap. The PBT keycaps will provide excellent oil resistance, enhance the type feel, and prevent the legends from fading out.
Stability
All New Screw-In PCB Stabilisers
The screw-in design increases stability and makes it easier for changes and upgrades. Precise craftsmanship makes the stabilisers more stable and less wobbly. The big keys’ (space bar, shift, enter, delete) typing experience is now more stable and smoother.
RGB Backlight
Unlock Dynamic Backlit Control
Go beyond standard presets with 22+ RGB backlight settings — including a static white option. Keychron's advanced lighting engine includes two powerful features to fuel your creativity: Per-key RGB and Mix RGB. You can further fine-tune and remap keys with ease, crafting your unique style with vivid, dynamic RGB control.
Per-Key RGB
With Per-key RGB, every single key is a digital brushstroke. This feature lets you individually customise the colour of each key, transforming your keyboard into a vibrant canvas.
Mix RGB
With Mix RGB, you can split your keyboard into two custom lighting zones, each with unique effects. Create creative, high-contrast combinations to make your entire setup pop with vibrant style.
Backed by a 1 year Keychron warranty.
